SACCAWU Medical Aid Plan
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- Title
- SACCAWU Medical Aid Plan
- Description
- THE South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) launched a medical aid fund yesterday which the union said would be used as a springboard for the establishment of its own medical aid scheme. Saccawu assistant general secretary Herbet Mkhize said the fund would operate under Medscheme's Meddent Medical Scheme for about nine months while the union conducted further research into establishing its own medical aid scheme. Mkhize said trade unions were no longer only competing with one another but also with legal firms that were now offering their services to workers. “Now a trade union has to convince potential members that it offers the best services, “Mkhize said. “When you try to recruit a member, they would like to know what they will get out of it. You tell them about getting legal representation when they are unfairly dismissed and they are members of Legalwise. “If you do not offer more than just representation, then you have lost those members,†he said. Mkhize said just as banks were now under threat from retail outlets which were now offering banking facilities, unions were under pressure to improve their benefits for members and also broaden the scope of benefits. The new fund was put together' by Medscheme's Negotiated Benefits Unit (NBU) and follows three years of research by Saccawu. NBU head John Eagles said the fund was unique in that it enabled members to register parents as dependants and that it had a range of benefit options.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113700
- Date Issued
- Dec-97
- Creator
- SACCAWU
- Rights
- South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU)
- Rights Holder
- South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU)
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Type
- text
- Extent
- 28 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Location - Physical Location
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- useGuidelines
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
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