Overcoming the situation of late payment and social insurance arrears in enterprises
(Baonghean.vn)- Voters' recommendation: Currently, the social insurance arrears of enterprises are still high, affecting the rights of workers and making it difficult to implement social security policies. We request that the relevant agencies have positive and resolute solutions to this issue.
Regarding this issue, the competent authority responded as follows:
In recent times, the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Committee, all levels and sectors have paid special attention to leading and directing the provincial Social Insurance sector to advise, coordinate, organize and implement synchronously, thoroughly and effectively many positive solutions, bringing about certain results, reducing the debt ratio of Social Insurance and Unemployment Insurance sharply, each year lower than the previous year.
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| Construction workers are often the ones directly affected by social insurance debt (Illustration photo). |
However, the situation of late payment and arrears of social insurance still occurs, many employers owe social insurance and unemployment insurance for a long time, affecting the rights of employees. The main reason leading to this situation is that on the one hand, businesses are really having difficulties in production and business, and do not have a source of funds to pay salaries and social insurance and health insurance for employees.
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| Thanh Chuong District Social Insurance officers review and verify information of farmer households participating in insurance in Thanh Yen commune. (Illustration photo) |
On the other hand, sanctions for violations still have limitations and shortcomings, and are not strong enough to handle, deter, and prevent acts of late payment or social insurance arrears (such as acts of evading payment or social insurance arrears are not considered violations of the Penal Code; the penalty interest rate for late payment is lower than the loan interest rate of commercial banks; the social insurance agency that organizes the implementation does not have the authority to inspect and handle violations...)
| To overcome the shortcomings, the Government issued Decision No. 60/2015/QD-TTg dated November 27, 2015 on the financial management mechanism of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance (Article 6, Clause 3 stipulates that the interest rate for late payment of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance is equal to 02 times the interbank market interest rate) and the National Assembly issued: Social Insurance Law No. 58/2014/QH13 dated November 20, 2014 (Article 13, Clause 3 stipulates that the Social Insurance agency is assigned to perform the function of specialized inspection on payment of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance); Penal Code No. 100/2015/QH13 dated November 27, 2015, effective from July 1, 2016 (Article 216 stipulates the act of evading payment or late payment of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance). |
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| Provincial Social Insurance officers provide insurance advice to workers of Martrix Vinh LLC (illustrative photo) |
Faced with the new regulations, Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance has been making efforts to advise Party committees and authorities at all levels and closely coordinate with departments, branches and sectors to promptly deploy positive solutions immediately after the new sanctions come into effect.
The implementation of new regulations will certainly fundamentally resolve the social insurance debt situation of enterprises, and the rights of workers will be guaranteed.
PV (TH)
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