Labor Code Vietnam 2012 - Chapter XII SOCIAL INSURANCE

Chapter XII SOCIAL INSURANCE

Chapter XII

SOCIAL INSURANCE

Article 186. Participation in social insurance and health insurance

1. The employer and the employee must participate in the mandatory social insurance and health insurance and unemployment insurance and shall enjoy the regimes as prescribed by the law on the social insurance and health insurance

Encouraging the employer and employee to perform other forms of social insurance for the employees.

2. During the leave with the enjoyment of the social insurance, the employer shall not pay salary to employees.

3. For employees not subject to participation in mandatory social insurance, mandatory health insurance, unemployment insurance, in addition to payment by the work, the employer shall pay at the same time of the employee’s payment period an addtional amount equivalent to the rate of mandatory social insurance premium and mandatory health insurance, unemployment insurance and the amount of annual leave as prescribed.

Article 187. Pension age

1. The employee must satisfy the conditions of the social insurance payment in accordance with the law on social insurance to enjoy the pension salary when female is full 60-year-old and female is full 55 years old.

2. The employee has been reduced the working capacity; doing extremely hard, harmful or dangerous work; doing hard, harmful or dangerous work in upland and remote areas, border islands under the list stipulated by the Government shall be able to retire at younger age than specified in paragraph 1 of this Article.

 3. The employee has high technical qualification, the employee working management task and some other special cases can retire at higher age but not more than 05 years compared with the provisions of Clause 1 of this Article.

4. The Government has stipulate the clause 2 and 3 of this Article.