Temporarily suspended from work for 14 days or more, social insurance payment may be temporarily suspended

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 2, Article 11 of Decree No. 158/2025/ND-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Social Insurance 2024 on compulsory social insurance is as follows:

Employees who are not subject to the provisions of Clause 1 of this Article but are temporarily suspended from work for 14 working days or more in a month shall temporarily suspend compulsory social insurance payment as follows:

a) During the period of temporary suspension from work for 14 working days or more in a month, the employee and the employer shall temporarily suspend the payment of compulsory social insurance;

b) In case after the temporary suspension period of 14 working days or more in a month, the employee is paid full salary by the employer for the period of temporary suspension, the compulsory social insurance compensation for the period of temporary suspension shall be paid. The deadline for compensatory payment is the last day of the month following the month in which the suspension ends. The compensation for the months of suspension is equal to the amount payable for compulsory social insurance as prescribed in Articles 33 and 34 of the Law on Social Insurance.

In case after the compensation payment period the latest, the employer and the employee pay compensation for the months of suspension, it shall comply with the provisions of Articles 40 and 41 of the Law on Social Insurance;

c) In case after the temporary suspension period of 14 working days or more in a month, the employee is not paid full salary by the employer for the period of temporary suspension, the compulsory social insurance compensation for the period of temporary suspension shall not be paid.

Thus, employees who are temporarily suspended from work for 14 working days or more will have their compulsory social insurance payment suspended.