My company is majoring in sea shipping. Currently, the company has 2 ships and due to the nature of the job, those two will run alternately, which means each will run for one month then get one month off. The crew members on the two ships signed an indefinite labor contract and participated in social insurance. During the month of the ship's inactivity, no salary fees for crew members on board are incurred. (Their salaries are calculated on the actual workday of the ships). Then will the the crew on board temporarily suspend their contributions to social insurance premiums? If no, at which rate will they have to pay?
Pursuant to the regulations on Clause 3 Article 85, Clause 4 Article 84 of the 2014 Law on Social Insurance, employees who neither work nor receive salary for 14 working days or more in a month are not required to pay social insurance premiums in that month. This period shall not be counted for enjoyment of social insurance regimes, except cases of maternity leave. Comparing the above provisions, in case your company signs an indefinite-term labor contract with the employee and the employee's time of neither working nor receiving salary is less than 14 days in the month, the employees are required to pay social insurance premiums.
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