BEIJING (Reuters) -In a landmark interpretation, China’s top court recently reinforced that workarounds between employers and workers to evade social insurance contributions are invalid, a move that both promises to fund depleted pension plans and threatens jobs and businesses.

The response from some small business owners has been to offer new contracts without paying the company’s required social insurance contributions, highlighting how Beijing’s limited attempts toward boosting consumer demand remain beset by hard economic trade-offs.

Of 18 employees across China whom Reuters talked to, only three said their employers have been paying the company’s contributions. The rest said no contributions were being made. All requested not to be identified, fearing they could be fired or discipli

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