The Social Security Issue for Flexible Workers in China Needs to Be Solved Urgently
At present, there are various forms of flexible employment in China, including self-employed workers, part-time workers and new forms of employment. According to statistics, the number of employees has reached about 200 million. Relevant surveys have found that many flexible employees are facing long-term social security problems such as the threshold for payment and the difficulty in determining labor relations. Specifically: 1, There is a household registration threshold for social security payment. Some flexible workers in Beijing, Shanghai and other places reported that because they did not sign labor contract with enterprises, they could not pay social security locally with their household registration in other places, and social security payment records were linked to household registration points, car lottery and housing purchases. At present, the social security payment of flexible employees in Beijing and Shanghai is only for local registered residents, while the social security payment of non-local registered residents must be paid by employing units, which makes many people can only pay social security payment through agent. 2. At present, the social security of flexible employees in many places only includes basic pension and medical care, excluding work-related injury, unemployment and maternity insurance. Social Security law has clear provisions on basic pension and medical insurance for flexible employee, but there is no clear provisions on three insurances for work-related injury, unemployment, and maternity insurances. Although flexible employees can insure the commercial insurance such as personal accident insurance by oneself, but work-related injury insurance has a higher added value and greater protection. 3. The nature of employment in some areas of flexible employment is not clear, and the methods for identifying labor relations are different. For example, whether there is a labor relationship between the sharing platforms, such as food delivery, express errands and riders is not clearly stipulated in the industry at present, which affects the labor rights and interests protection of relevant employees, such as salary, welfare and security.