Membership fee
In addition to professional advocacy and membership of the unemployment fund, your membership fee includes high-quality services and member benefits that support your working life and well-being. Our fixed membership fee is easy to pay! Please keep your membership details up to date so that we can serve you in the best possible way.
Paying the membership fee
As a member of Specia, you pay the same fixed monthly membership fee according to your work and life situation. It’s easy to pay a fixed membership fee – changes in your salary do not affect the size of your membership fee and neither do holiday pay, overtime or fringe benefits.
If you’d like, you can also get earnings-related unemployment allowance through us from the unemployment fund OTE. Membership of the fund does not cost anything, but is included in the membership fee. The membership fee of the trade union is tax-deductible. You can pay your membership fee conveniently through our online portal for members or at your bank by using the payment details you receive from us. You can also authorise your employer to deduct the membership fee directly from your salary.
Membership fees
How is your work and life situation right now? Check which membership free category you belong to.
Membership fee €29/month
When you are in full-time paid employment, you pay a fixed membership fee regardless of your salary, holiday pay, overtime and fringe benefits received during the year. This fee is also paid for the “support package” in the event of redundancy.
Reduced membership fee €17/month
You can apply for a reduced membership fee if you work 60% or less of your working time, are on partial disability pension or part-time child care leave, or otherwise work reduced hours. The reduction is granted from the start of the month in which the application is received.
Apply reduced membership feeReduced membership fee for those receiving pay subsidy 17 € /month
You can apply for a reduced membership fee if you work in paid employment that does not qualify for earnings-related unemployment allowance and you are under 60 years old.
Apply reduced membership feeMember of the unemployment fund on earnings-related unemployment allowance 17 € /month
If you have no wage income but receive earnings-related unemployment allowance from the unemployment fund, the membership fee is the same regardless of the amount of unemployment benefit you receive. When you are on unemployment benefit, you pay the contribution yourself.
Student €6/month
Full-time degree students who are enrolled as full-time students are entitled to the student membership fee. Membership without membership of the unemployment fund costs 3 € /month.
Other
Self-employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and freelancers 13 € /month
Pensioner 10 € /month
Honorary members and members in military or civilian service are exempt from the membership fee.
Minimum membership fee €8/month
You pay the minimum membership fee if you are not in paid employment or on benefits from an OTE fund/other unemployment fund.
For example, the minimum membership fee applies in the following situations:
– you are on family leave (Note! If your employer pays the salary for the first three months of parental leave, the normal membership fee will be paid for these months).
– you receive grants
– you receive adult education allowance
– 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)