Benefits for SIASU Members

Help and Services from the Union
As a member of a large family, you can approach us for help whenever you have problems at your workplace. We can speak to your employer on your behalf from a position of strength. We help to secure better wages, job security and better working conditions for you. You also get a souvenir biannually besides enjoying other benefits .

Welfare Scheme

Medical Benefit

Any member who is hospitalised for not less than 3 continuous days shall be entitled to a grant of $22 in cash and of fresh fruit to the value of not more than $3 or payment in cash in lieu thereof. Any member who is duly certified to have contracted tuberculosis and who has been accorded sick leave for not less than 28 continuous days in any one calendar year shall, irrespective of whether he is hospitalised or not, be entitled to a grant of $22 in cash. Any member who has been duly certified to be so ill as to be deemed to be hospitalised and who has exhausted all his entitlement to medical leave with full basic salary shall be entitled to a grant of $50 in cash per month.

Death Benefit

A member shall be entitled to a grant of $200 in cash upon the death of his/her spouse provided a claim may be made for only one spouse per member. A member shall be entitled to a grant of $70 in cash on the death of a child provided that a claim may be made for a maximum of three children per member. A member shall be entitled to a grant of $70 in cash on the death of his/her mother or father provided that a claim may be made for only one mother and one father per member.