Is it legal for the company to entrust a third party to pay social security?

It is legal for the company to entrust a third party to pay social security.

According to national laws and regulations, employees must pay social security when signing a labor contract with the company. It is an agreement between companies to entrust a third-party labor service company to pay social security. As long as it pays social security to employees, it is not illegal, just outsourcing insurance business.

The insurance types of social security are as follows:

1, basic old-age insurance, to ensure that you reach retirement age, and you can receive a pension according to regulations to ensure the basic life for the second half of your life;

2, basic medical insurance, to ensure basic medical care, medical expenses can be reimbursed according to a certain proportion, to ensure that the disease can be cured;

3. Unemployment insurance, which guarantees that you can receive unemployment benefits according to regulations, guarantee the most basic living needs during unemployment, enjoy medical subsidies during unemployment, and enjoy vocational training and employment training for unemployed people during unemployment;

4. Work-related injury insurance refers to the fact that the unit participates in insurance, with the power of social security to protect employees from work-related accidents, disability or death, to protect employees' medical care and to receive work-related injury allowance and one-time subsidy, with a high proportion of medical expenses reimbursement;

5, maternity insurance, is to protect the workers' fertility, childbirth, induced labor, ligation, family planning measures and other reimbursable expenses.

The Company entrusts a third party to pay social security as follows:

1. Linking employee social security with human resources company and paying social security for employees in its name can be done by (human resources outsourcing);

2. The enterprise has its own social security account, and then entrusts the human resources company to remit and pay custody. The human resources company is responsible for operating social security accounts, handling social security for employees every month, increasing or decreasing employees and reimbursing social security.

To sum up, it is the legal obligation of the employer to pay social insurance for employees, and it is legal for the company to entrust a third-party labor service company to pay social insurance.

Legal basis:

Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law

The employing unit shall, within 30 days from the date of employment, apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration for its employees. If the social insurance has not been registered, the social insurance agency shall verify the social insurance premium it should pay.

Employees-free individual industrial and commercial households who voluntarily participate in social insurance, part-time employees who do not participate in social insurance in the employing unit and other flexible employees shall apply to the social insurance agency for social insurance registration.

The state establishes a national unified personal social security number. Personal social security number is a citizen's identity number.