MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL BENEFIT FUNDS/SCHEMES. 3.1 Membership of the Council benefit funds/schemes shall be compulsory for all party employees who are employed by party employers and for all non-party employees who are employed by non-party employers when this agreement is extended to non-party employees and employers in terms of section 32 of the LRA by the Minister of Labour. To obtain membership of the Council benefit funds/schemes, these employees and employers must fall within the registered scope of this Council and this Collective Agreement must prescribe their wages. Membership of the Furnmed Sick Benefit Society or the NUFAWSA Sick Benefit Society may be obtained by qualifying in terms of the applicable Fund’s rules and by electing to become a member. In the latter instances, all the contributions shall by default initially be made to the Additional Provident Fund to the same value of the Furnmed Sick Benefit Society in terms of clauses 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 of Addendum 1, unless the employee qualifies in terms of the applicable rules of the Furnmed Sick Benefit Society or the NUFAWSA Sick Benefit Society and the same employee elects in writing to the Council, to become a member of any one of the Sick Benefit Societies.
3.2 Membership of the Council’s Benefit Funds/Schemes shall:
3.2.1 consist of all employees, other than casual employees, in the Industry for whom wages are prescribed in this Collective Agreement; and
3.2.2 subject to the approval of the Council, Board of Trustees or Committee(s), be granted to such other persons whom are directly employed in the Industry and who wish to become voluntary members of either the Furnmed Sick Benefit Society or the NUFAWSA Sick Benefit Society and in respect of whom their employers have agreed to make the contributions prescribed in Addendum 1 and subject to the rules of those two individual funds.
3.2.3 Membership shall cease when a member leaves the Industry or in the event of death or permanent disability of a member.
3.2.4 Special provisions applicable to members who were formerly members of the Transvaal Furniture Workers’ Mortality Association and the Transvaal Bedding Workers’ Mortality Benefit Association and the former Transvaal Furniture Workers’ Burial Society and the Transvaal Workers’ Burial Society and who retired from the Industry owing to old age or ill health or who reached the age of 65 years on or before 1 October 1988 shall be entitled to benefits as prescribed in the former Mortality Association and Burial Society Agreements.
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