Can the unit reduce its staff by not paying social security?

Legal analysis: no, first of all, you need to go to the social security bureau and the bank to make up the unpaid fees, otherwise the late payment fee will keep accumulating. After the normal payment is resumed, social security can be reduced or exempted. According to the relevant laws and regulations, the company's failure to pay social insurance does not belong to the situation of prohibiting layoffs, so employees who fail to pay social insurance can be laid off, but employees can ask the employer to pay the social insurance in arrears. If the employer fails to pay the social insurance premium in full and on time, the social insurance premium collection agency shall order it to pay it within a time limit or make up for it, and from the date of default, an overdue fine of 5/10000 shall be added daily; Failing to pay within the time limit, the relevant administrative departments shall impose a fine of more than one time and less than three times the amount owed.

Legal basis: Article 41 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Labor Contract Law is under any of the following circumstances. If it is necessary to lay off more than 20 employees or less than 20 employees, but accounting for more than 10% of the total number of employees in the enterprise, the employer shall explain the situation to the trade union or all employees 30 days in advance, and after listening to the opinions of the trade union or employees, it may report the layoff plan to the labor administrative department: (1) It may be rectified in accordance with the provisions of the enterprise bankruptcy law; (two) serious difficulties in production and operation; (three) the enterprise has changed production, major technological innovation or adjustment of business mode, and it still needs to reduce staff after changing the labor contract; (4) Other major changes have taken place in the objective economic situation on which the labor contract was concluded, which makes it impossible to perform the labor contract. When downsizing, priority should be given to retaining the following personnel: (1) concluding a long-term fixed-term labor contract with the unit; (2) Concluding an open-ended labor contract with the unit; (3) there are no other employees in the family, and there are elderly people or minors who need to support them. If the employing unit reduces its staff in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of this article and recruits staff again within six months, it shall notify the retrenched staff and give priority to the retrenched staff under the same conditions.

Article 86 of "People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law" * * * If the employer fails to pay the social insurance premium in full and on time, the social insurance premium collection agency shall order it to pay it within a time limit or make up for it, and from the date of default, an overdue fine of 0.5% shall be charged on a daily basis; Failing to pay within the time limit, the relevant administrative departments shall impose a fine of more than one time and less than three times the amount owed.