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Abu Dhabi on December 27 /
The General Pension and Social Security Authority called on employers in the private sector to avoid wrong practices that cause them to incur additional amounts as a result of failure to properly pay the insured’s contributions to the authority.
At the end of its campaign to educate the insured and the employers about their obligations and rights according to the “Nafes” program, the Authority clarified that charging the insured with a percentage greater than the contributions due on their behalf or any expenses not provided for in the law costs the employer a fine of five thousand dirhams for each insured. And the court shall rule on its own initiative to oblige the employer to return the excess sums to the insured.
The authority added: “The same fine is applied to the employer for every worker who has not been subscribed for, and accordingly, in addition to the fines, he will bear the responsibility of contributing on behalf of the insured retroactively and paying the contributions from the time of the start of his service.”
And since the insured’s contributions become due for payment from the beginning of the month following the month due for him until the fifteenth day of this month, the Authority indicated that the employer’s delay in paying the contributions according to these dates is carried by the payment of an additional amount of (0.1%) of the due contributions. For each day of delay without prior notice or warning according to the provisions of Article (14) of the law.
The authority drew attention to the procedures resulting from illegal practices related to the payment of contributions, such as recording an unreal wage in the employment contract in order to avoid paying contributions at a higher value, and in the event that it does not deduct the due percentage for all or some of the workers, the employer shall pay additional amounts by (10%). % of the due contributions.
She said that the data provided by the employer to the Authority on the salaries and contributions of the insured workers with him must be accurate and correct, in addition to that he should avoid refraining from providing any data that the Authority requests, as this exposes him to imprisonment and a fine not exceeding five thousand dirhams or one of these two penalties.
