Shanghai foreign household registration, flexible employment and social security

Legal Analysis: If the flexible employees with foreign household registration in Shanghai need to pay social security, they need to bring their original ID card and its front and back copies, a copy of the employment unemployment registration certificate or the information page of the labor manual, a photo of their 1 inch ID card for making the old-age certificate, and a (folded) copy of their real-name registration system settlement account card opened in a designated financial institution to all streets, towns (townships).

Legal basis: Article 57 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the employing unit shall, within 30 days from its establishment, apply to the local social insurance agency for social insurance registration with its business license, registration certificate or unit seal. The social insurance agency shall, within fifteen days from the date of receiving the application, examine and issue the social insurance registration certificate. Where the social insurance registration items of the employing unit are changed or the employing unit is terminated according to law, it shall, within 30 days from the date of change or termination, go to the social insurance agency to handle the change or cancellation of social insurance registration. The market supervision and management department, the civil affairs department and the organization management organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the establishment and termination of the employing unit, and the public security organ shall promptly inform the social insurance agency of the birth, death, household registration, migration and cancellation of the individual.