Aunt Wang in Guiyang has long been troubled by one problem: although she had a workplace, she completed her retirement procedures as a flexible-employment worker, leaving her with a much lower pension. Wang was once an employee of the Guiyang Agricultural Machinery Company. After being laid off, she obtained a re-employment preferential certificate and joined the Guiyang Public Transport Company in 2009 - taking a public-welfare position at the company through the certificate, signing a public-welfare position agreement and serving as a safety officer at bus stations, work that lasted five years.
However, when she reached the statutory retirement age in 2014, she discovered that the bus company had been paying her social insurance under the flexible-employment scheme - which differs greatly from employee social insurance. Wang said that if her pension had been calculated as an in-service retirement, it should be 1,700 yuan a month; but under the flexible-employment arrangement she receives only a little over 700 yuan, far below the pensions of her former colleagues.
A staff member of the bus company's human-resources department explained that employees recruited directly by the company must sign labor contracts, whereas Wang had signed a public-welfare agreement. Once such an agreement expires, she could only pay social insurance and handle retirement on her own as a flexible-employment worker. Wang acknowledged that she had indeed not signed a labor contract with the company, and said she would continue studying the relevant policies before deciding what to do next.
