Nghia Dan: Enterprises owe nearly 10 billion VND in social insurance payments

Comrade Hoang Viet Duong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the meeting. Also attending were Comrade Phan Duc Dong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee, Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee; leaders of the Provincial People's Council's committees. Photo: Thanh Duy

Unscheduled environmental inspections are needed at manufacturing facilities.

Up to now, in Nghia Dan area, there is no environmental hotspot, there is one facility on the list of facilities causing serious environmental pollution, which is Mr. Phan Van Trach's cassava starch processing factory in Nghia Duc commune.

There are nearly 20 pesticide residue points in the area and so far the Provincial People's Committee has approved treatment projects at 3 points, but no project has been implemented in the field.

In addition, the district has Nghia Long Industrial Cluster with 5 production and business establishments and 1 unit carrying out investment procedures. Nghia Dan District People's Committee is constructing a dam and water supply system for the industrial cluster and constructing a wastewater collection and treatment system.

Enterprises in the industrial cluster are using underground water for production and daily life. Wastewater is collected and treated at the facility.

Head of the Provincial People's Council's Legal Committee Phan Duc Dong spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

68 businesses have not participated in social insurance

In the first 6 months of 2018 alone, the whole district had 118,754 people participating in social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, occupational accident and disease insurance with a total revenue of more than 98 billion VND; of which the revenue from the business sector was 52 units with 4,841 participants, the total revenue was nearly 19.8 billion VND.

Currently, the amount of debt for the above insurance types is more than 11.1 billion VND, of which the debt from 1 to less than 6 months is 8.95 billion VND and the debt from 6 months or more is more than 2.1 billion VND. Of which, the debt of the business sector is more than 9.9 billion VND.

Explaining this issue, Mr. Vuong Dinh Nhat - Deputy Director of Nghia Dan District Social Insurance said that the debt paid by some large enterprises in the area with a large number of employees "overlaps" the following month with the previous month, leading to a high statistical debt.

Workers work at the cassava starch processing factory of Son Long Production and Trading Joint Stock Company in Nghia Long commune, Nghia Dan district. Photo: Thanh Duy

On the other hand, Mr. Nhat added that through the review, there are 68 enterprises in the district that have not participated in paying social insurance for employees. The current difficulty of the social insurance sector is to meet with business owners, especially construction enterprises, to propagate, mobilize and inspect the payment of social insurance.

Mr. Vuong Dinh Nhat stated: According to the tax department, there are construction enterprises with tax codes and addresses, but when social insurance officers come, only the director is there. As for the workers, the business owner explains that when contracting a project, they hire workers there.

Concluding the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Hoang Viet Duong assessed that the People's Committee of Nghia Dan district has proactively deployed, propagated and paid attention to implementing State management work on environmental protection, labor safety and hygiene and policies for workers.

Regarding some issues that need attention in the coming time, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council suggested that the People's Committee should continue to strengthen the direction and inspection of law compliance of enterprises in the area related to the above fields; including environmental work such as wastewater treatment monitoring system; and perform well in fire prevention and fighting.

Nghia Dan District People's Committee also needs to continue to direct the district Social Insurance and Tax Department to strengthen inspection and urge enterprises to pay social insurance for employees and taxes in accordance with regulations; especially inspect and strictly handle units that use tricks in signing labor agreements to circumvent the law and evade paying social insurance for employees;...