المملكة: Delegated to work abroad.. Will his subscription continue?"Occupational hazards" For social insurance?
She said that The participantsubject to the Occupational Hazards Branch who is sent on a mission outside the Kingdom for The employer, or the one who is authorized to take a study leave outside the Kingdom until the date of his return, stops his subscription to the Occupational Hazards Branch and the employer does not pay the contributions for this branch (2%) from the first of the month following the date of his travel and resumes his obligation to pay from the first of the month during which he returns to the Kingdom.
I explained that there are two exceptions to this ruling, which are the following:
- Saudi aircraft crews continue to be treated by the Occupational Hazards Branch while on board the aircraft or while on their way from the airport to their place of residence or vice versa in the countries to which these airlines’ flights arrive.
- Saudi land and sea transportation crews while on international flights outside the Kingdom or while heading from the destination station to the place of residence or vice versa in the countries to which these flights arrive.
The Saudi Social Insuranceoptional subscription to the pensions branch for Saudis from several categories.
The optional subscriber is the Saudi who is not affiliated with government or private entities and is voluntarily registered in the pensions branch of the social insurance system.
The social insurance system has specified a number of categories that are entitled to participate as follows:
- Workers in the liberal professions, on the condition of obtaining a license to practice the profession from the competent authorities.
- Craftsmen who They practice their trades for themselves or in partnership with others based on a license issued by the competent authorities, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, plumbers, and the like.
- Workers outside the Kingdom who are not linked to a work relationship with an employer who has a head office inside the Kingdom.
- Saudis who work in foreign international, political, and military missions in the Kingdom who are not subject to the system compulsorily and in this case they are treated as the categories stipulated in Paragraph 4 of Article 4 of The system.
- Contributors whose compulsory contribution to the pension branch has ceased and no longer meet the conditions stipulated in the system.
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