Nghe An: No businesses that owe social insurance have been sued yet.

At the conference, Mr. Le Truong Giang - Director of the Provincial Social Insurance presented remarkable data: Currently, there are 1,165 enterprises in the province that have not participated in compulsory social insurance. During the inspection process, 119 enterprises did not cooperate, and more than 500 enterprises were inactive or had changed their headquarters address, making it impossible for Social Insurance officers to contact them!

“This is a painful reality. There are many businesses, but are they actually still operating? Then there are the fact that many businesses do not build salary scales, do not declare their employees… affecting the rights of workers, causing difficulties in implementing social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance policies” - the head of the provincial Social Insurance frankly said.

Some businesses operating in the fields of transportation, construction... often hire local unskilled workers without signing labor contracts to avoid paying social insurance and health insurance. Illustration photo: Internet

Sharing the same opinion with Mr. Le Truong Giang, the representative of the Provincial Labor Federation also said that the awareness of compliance with the Social Insurance Law of some enterprises is not high. Although the inter-sectoral sector has focused on establishing inspection teams, the situation of compulsory social insurance debt at enterprises is still complicated, and the rights of employees at units with outstanding debts are affected.

The biggest difficulty currently in handling businesses that owe social insurance is that although the Penal Code has 3 provisions related to filing lawsuits for violations of social insurance laws, the filing of lawsuits by trade unions as well as the trial of judicial agencies still have many shortcomings, so they have not yet had a deterrent effect.

In 2017, the Social Insurance and the Provincial Labor Federation coordinated to consolidate and complete the lawsuit file against 14 units with outstanding social insurance and health insurance payments in Vinh City, but the City People's Court has not yet handled it.

Provincial Social Insurance - Provincial Labor Federation signed a cooperation program for 2018. Photo: Phuoc Anh

At the conference, the two units jointly evaluated the results of the implementation of the 2017 coordination program on the following contents: information exchange; propaganda and dissemination of laws; inspection, supervision, settlement of complaints and denunciations; administrative reform. Basically, the contents were actively and proactively coordinated by the leaders, officers and specialists of the two units.

Based on that assessment, the Provincial Social Insurance and the Provincial Labor Federation signed a work coordination program for 2018.