Does the company have to pay social security for its employees?

Legal analysis: According to the relevant laws and regulations, the employer must pay social insurance for its employees, which is a legally compulsory obligation and a legal obligation of both parties, and both parties in labor relations cannot negotiate to change it. There is a great legal risk in employers' failure to pay social security: employees can report to the labor inspection at any time and ask the employer to pay, and the result is often to pay back within a time limit.

Legal basis: Article 54 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Rural Revitalization Promotion Law, the state improves the social security system of urban and rural planning, establishes and improves the security mechanism, and supports rural areas to improve the level of social security management services; Establish and improve the mechanism for determining the basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents and the normal adjustment of basic pension standards to ensure that the basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents are gradually improved with economic and social development. The state supports farmers to participate in the basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents in accordance with regulations, and encourages qualified flexible employees and agricultural industrialization employees to participate in social insurance such as basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance for employees. The state promotes the coordinated development of the minimum living security system in urban and rural areas, improves the level of social assistance such as support for the extremely poor in rural areas, strengthens care services for rural left-behind children, women and the elderly, the disabled and children in distress, and supports the development of inclusive old-age care services in rural areas and mutual support for the elderly.