How do individual merchants handle social security for employees?

Legal analysis: Steps for individual merchants to handle social security for employees: 1. Go to the local social security department for social insurance registration certificate, and apply for social insurance registration certificate; 2. Sign a labor contract supervised by the local labor department and submit a list of employees who pay social security contributions to the local social department; 3. Go to the social security agency in industrial and commercial registration to handle the employee social security account; 4. Employees with employee social security accounts shall transfer their social security relationship to their institutions when registering for industry and commerce. The pension insurance contribution ratio is 24%, the unit contribution ratio is 16%, and the employee individual contribution ratio is 8%; The proportion of medical insurance payment is 8%, the unit payment is 6%, and the individual employee payment is 2%.

Legal basis: Article 58 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law. The employing unit shall handle social insurance registration for employees within 30 days from the date of employment. 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.