Can small and micro enterprises in Shanghai not pay social security?

It is impossible for small and micro enterprises in Shanghai not to pay social security.

Shanghai currently requires employees to purchase social security: five insurances for urban hukou and three insurances for rural hukou. Urban hukou needs to pay provident fund, but rural hukou does not. If you don't pay, there will be trouble in the annual review of the enterprise, and employees can also go to the labor department to sue the unit.

According to the provisions of the social security law, enterprises, institutions, organizations, etc. Those registered in China should be insured. There is no regulation on the scale of enterprises, so since enterprises must be insured according to regulations; As for whether there is support or relevant preferential policies, it depends on whether the local government has relevant policies; Even if there is, it is the government that pays part of the social security fees for enterprises.

Further reading: How to buy insurance, which is good, and teach you how to avoid these "pits" of insurance.