The Information Technology Association (ITA) has announced a brand-new benefit for its members. The Association has collaborated with Discovery Health to produce a Group Medical Aid Scheme for member companies.
"This is a revolutionary achievement for the ITA, as most medical aid schemes do not normally agree to provide a group scheme for members of an association," says ITA executive director Lizette McIntosh. "The fact that the scheme is available to all our member companies, irrespective of whether they employ one or 1000 employees is a significant breakthrough."
The new medical schemes act, implementing from 1 January 2001, allow you as a member, not to be precluded from joining if you were already an Aids sufferer or had an terminal illness.
A representative from Discovery Health will present this exciting scheme, as well as other new products, at the ITA Conference Centre on 23 November 2000.
Benefits under discussion include:
How ITA Members can benefit from the scheme through membership with the Association;
How companies who employ less than 50 staff members would qualify for automatic underwriting as a group, and how there would be no individual underwriting or loading;
How contractors and companies who provide contracting services can be accommodated. Interested parties can call Sian Hong on 011-7893805 for more information, or email
sian@ita.org.za
.
"The Group Medical Aid Scheme is only one of a series of products being offered by the ITA to its members," McIntosh continues. "Various other services are already in place and several more have been phased in from mid-November."
These include:
Labour consulting
Consultants and legal representation at the CCMA. This is based on the fact that the ITA is the registered employer`s association.
Labour Help line
Benefit queries on Medical Aid and Provident Fund Schemes
General HR assistance, including policies and procedures, Equity and Skills Development.
"We also intend setting up an umbrella provident fund for IT companies belonging to the ITA, to enable them to benefit from more reasonable rates and lower risk," McIntosh concludes.
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