Conference to comment on the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended)

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of September 18, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation held a conference to collect comments on the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended). Comrade Pham Van Tan, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation chaired the conference.

Conference overview

The draft revised Law on Social Insurance (SI) consists of 9 chapters and 127 articles, stipulating the social insurance regime and policies; the rights and responsibilities of employees, agencies, organizations, individuals participating in SI, organizations representing labor collectives, organizations representing employers; SI agencies; SI funds; procedures for implementing SI and state management of SI. Compared to the old Social Insurance Law, the draft revised Law on Social Insurance has 2 chapters and 14 articles fewer.

At the conference, delegates discussed and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the amended and supplemented provisions in the draft law such as expanding the scope of participants, state management of social insurance, rights and responsibilities of the parties; the increasing status of social insurance arrears and evasion, and the salary level for social insurance contributions aimed at balancing the pension and death benefit funds. Delegates also gave their opinions on the content of assigning the right to inspect the status of social insurance evasion and debt to the social insurance agency to inspect, supervise, and sanction enterprises, units, and organizations that intentionally delay paying social insurance for employees.

Opinions at the Conference all agreed that it is necessary to promptly overcome shortcomings and difficulties in the implementation process, especially in ensuring the rights of social insurance participants; it is necessary to strengthen regulations on sanctions for violations of social insurance laws to ensure deterrence, limit violations and protect social insurance legislation; the implementation must be simpler, easier and more convenient in the direction of ensuring timely and full rights of social insurance participants.

Comrade Pham Van Tan, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, acknowledged the contributions of delegates attending the conference.for the Draft Law on Social Insurance Amendmentsynthesized and received by the Provincial National Assembly Delegation to submit to the National Assembly in the next session.

Pham Bang