The Rescue Administration Officers Association
The association represents people working in managerial and expert positions in rescue operations at the national, municipal and association levels.
Membership fees
Your membership fee is 0.9 %
- of employment income subject to income tax (including holiday compensation, holiday bonuses and fringe benefits, such as lunch, car and phone benefits, and so-called severance packages if your employment is terminated).
- of benefits paid by the unemployment fund (automatically deducted by the Unemployment Fund for Higher Educated Employees Erko)
However, the lowest possible membership fee is EUR 8 per month.
If you have several employers, you pay the membership fee from all your earned incomes.
The Unemployment Fund for Higher Educated Employees Erko deducts the membership fee automatically from the benefits paid by it. You must pay a percentage-based membership fee from benefits of other unemployment funds yourself. Remember to update your information.
Remember that if you receive earned income at the same time as receiving benefits from Erko, you must pay the percentual membership fee yourself.
If you have no employment income or do not receive benefits from an unemployment fund, your membership fee is EUR 8 per month.
For example, the following situations may apply:
- you are on family leave (NB! If your employer pays the salary of the first three months of your family leave, you pay the percentual membership fee normally for those months.)
- you receive grants
- you are on unpaid sick leave
- you receive rehabilitation support
- you receive a benefit for caring for close relatives
- you are unemployed or laid off and receive a benefit from Kela
- you are working abroad (and not a posted worker).
As a student member, you pay a percentual membership fee from the following income:
- earned income subject to income tax (including holiday compensation, holiday bonuses and fringe benefits)
- benefits paid by the unemployment fund (studying on earnings-related unemployment allowance)
If you receive none of the abovementioned income, you are exempt from paying the membership fee. The membership fee is not paid from the study grant.
If you have several employers – for instance, if you hold two part-time jobs – you pay the membership fee from both earned incomes.
Your annual membership fee is EUR 200 (single payment or EUR 16.67 per month). If you become a member or start your business in the middle of a year, the membership fee is only charged for the remainder of the year.
The annual fee also applies to a freelancer who only has assignment relationships.
As a pensioner, you pay a single payment of EUR 96 per year. If you retire in the middle of the year, the membership fee is only charged for the remaining months of the year as a single payment (EUR 8/month).
A member in military or civilian service is exempt from membership fees.
An honorary member of the union is exempt from membership fees.
The membership fee of a trade union is tax deductible.
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As a member of a member organisation of Akava Special Branches, your interests are protected at every stage of your career. We provide you with personal legal consultation, assistance concerning your employment, unemployment benefit and insurance coverage.
We provide you with training that supports your career aspirations and we help you with job seeking when you want to pursue new challenges.
We improve your remuneration and rights in working life. We work to achieve pay increases, better well-being at work, more equality in working life and stronger unemployment security for you.
We make sure that your voice is heard at the highest levels of negotiation, as we are a multidisciplinary and influential trade union. The important decisions that change working life for the better are achieved through collective strength, and we have plenty of it.
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Your member organisation also offers activities and services. Check your benefits from your member organisation.
Remember to keep your membership information and contact details up-to-date!
It is especially important that the information on your employment is up-to-date so that you receive relevant communications related to our advocacy efforts in working life, such as information on collective bargaining.
Your membership fee category is determined on the basis of your membership information. You will receive an invoice and payment details from Akava Special Branches, based on your membership information, at the beginning of the year.
You can check and update your information via our e-services or by using our online forms.