Voyage Union
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| Type | State Owned |
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| Founded | 20th, July, 1960 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Cateline Augustin (Head Councilor) Georgine Bureau (Director of Insurance and Housing) |
| Services | Wire transfers Money orders |
| Owner | Federation of the Southern Coast of Lapérouse |
| Website | www.VoyageUnion.FCS.Com |
The Voyage Union (Frakanic: Union de voyage) is a Côtois state-owned multinational financial services, medical insurance and visa worker corporation headquartered in République C.D, Federation of the Southern Coast of Lapérouse. It was founded in 1960 as a method of of transferring money in-between Norgsveltian Crown Realm, due to the rise of college educated visa workers from the Federation working in Norgsveldet in particular Osfjord and Waffer Valley. The transference of currency between the United Krone and the Red Krone, as well as other relating issues from transferring currencies led to the Federation creating the Voyage Union, as a method to provide visa workers a way to provide remittance and automatically pay salaries taxes on income by registering with the Voyage Union. Voyage Union as greatly expanded throughout the Norgsveltian Crown Realm, other nations in the crown realm and former nations within the crown realm such as Hvaloaszna and Ymirland greatly took part of the Voyage Union for its rapid transmit payments despite currency differences. In 1969, Voyage Union opened itself up to working with various companies and working governments to provide a seamless process of employment and habitation. The result of this collaborate of companies and state, only furthered increased the Voyage Union reach across the world outright. Voyage Union massively shifted its focus on from providing Côtois college educated workers to companies more towards low-educated and low-wage labors towards companies. Voyage Union assisting in providing international employment opportunities, housing and more important element of transferring funds back to the home country all of which done in a seamless process. In addition the company runs a extremely lean, providing very little profit in terms preferring to focus more on providing towards its consumer base.
The Voyage Union plays a important part of Federation of the Southern Coast of Lapérouse diplomatic and economic soft power due to it's sheer scale across the world. The method that the Federation gains soft power from the Voyage Union, is less from the economic value but rather in transactions costs and employment opportunities directed from the minister of Foreign Affairs of the Côtois government. The ability of the government of the Federation to not only direct employment but also arrangement of housing and transaction fees. The government of the Federation often takes great care in the transaction fees, to insure that it as minimum as possible with the exception of countries that particularly extremely out of line by Côtois standards. Resulting in extremely limited fees for currency transfers and transactions, regardless of country aside from those that in particular directly offend the Federation.
Current Services
Wire Transfers
Voyage Union offers money transfers either online through its mobile app or more often in person. Cash can be collected in person at any Voyage Union agent location worldwide by providing a passphrase and providing a 10-diget number and identification or a Voyage Union ID and a passphrase. Often in cases, most users only use their Voyage Union account identification card and the passphrase as Identification for wire transfers.
Identification Card
The Voyage Union ID card has been called the 'Traveling Worker's Card' by the international community is a identification card provided by Voyage Union to act both a method of identification for visa workers by police or government officials and by Voyage Union itself. The ID Card given by Voyage Union doesn't not act as debit card, though the Voyage Union does provide such service. Working with other governments, the ID card assigned by the Voyage Union can act as a driver license and as a central source of checking certifications. As the Voyage Union working with credited testing facilities and university that is upload to the identification card, that can easily be checked by the application given by the Voyage Union to governments that work with the company. In addition to the certification check, the ID also provides a address shown through the application. In some cases of governments working with the Voyage Union, prefer to use the ID card provided by the company rather than passports outright as it provided needed information in a centralized source. The ID can also act as a travelers medical insurance which is provide by the Voyage Union for signers. The Voyage Union ID card has become a symbol of the Voyage Union, and is often used as part of advertisement campaigns.
Voyage Union Mobile & Voyage Union Government
Both applications of Voyage Union was built and maintained by the Côtois subsidiary of Jotun, Jætte. The mobile app for general consumers, offers plans for money-transfers, bill payments and ID certification such as driver license as well as skill certification or universally accepted degrees. The mobile application given to governments, in particular employers and police officers provides important information relating to the person holding the ID. The card providing the temporary address, skill or college degrees and other related important information. For doctors and others in the medical field, the application can provide medical related information and for medical billers the insurance plan the consumer has. All of which is provided through the application and the Voyage Union ID card.
Medical Insurance
Voyage Union started to provide medical insurance to its customers in 2000, and it is the most profitable part of the state-owned company. The medical insurance, while is not required for customers is highly recommended by the company. The medical insurance program is limited to select countries, with medical companies primary medical insurance companies and with governments that work with Voyage Union. With the rollout of the Voyage Union ID, the inclusion of medical related information such as allergies, blood type and insurance plan (depending on country) resulted increasing customers taking part of the insurance plan and governments alike. As often in most cases, Voyage Union medical insurance plan is often cheaper than local or foreign medical insurance plans due to its sheer scale and the customers paying into the pot. Insurance plans greatly various, going from only covering emergences for the worker traveling aboard to incorporating the family of the worker all together.
Employment Opportunities
Voyage Union works with numerous companies, governments and agencies to provide a line of employment for its customers. The company provides several measures of providing employment, the most popular being in person application where company matches the job seeker with employer seeking seeks or and often in most cases of college educated job seekers a online data base where the job seeker can directly apply for the job themselves Voyage Union acting as a intermediary. For in-person job seeker, the company both mails, called and text messages for the job seeker for employment. While individuals who apply online are only emailed and text messaged. The company provides long-term, short-term and seasonal contract work. In addition the company provides a special category for agricultural and aquacultural employment.
Housing
Working with national and international companies, Voyage Union assists with customers finding housing within the country where they're working in. In most cases, the housing units are with other customers of Voyage Union. In some cases, such as with agricultural or aquacultural work housing is provided on site for customers. Housing companies are required to be inspected by a Voyage Union representatives to insure the safety and habitation of the housing. Rent (and related bills) are automatically handled through the Voyage Union, and is automatically calculated through the application as well employment. Housing provided through the Voyage Union intermediary is virtually always cheaper than finding housing on their own. As the Voyage Union can routinely provide paying tenants, resulting in higher occupancies in units regardless of length of the worker's stay in the host country.