An Act to provide a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, ports, plantations, shops, or other establishments, and for matters connected with or incidental to it.
Compliances
Form A – Notice of Opening
Form B – Notice of Change
Form C – Notice of Closure
Form F – Nomination
Form G – Fresh Nomination
Form H – Modification of Nomination
Form G – Fresh Nomination
Form H – Modification of Nomination
Form I – Application for gratuity by an employee
Form J – Application for gratuity by a nominee
Form K – Application for gratuity by a legal heir
Form L – Notice for payment of gratuity
Form M – Notice rejecting claim for payment of gratuity
Form N – Application for direction Before the Controlling Authority
Form T – Application for recovery of gratuity
Applicability
- Every factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, and railway company.
- Every shop or establishment (as defined under the applicable state law on shops and establishments) where 10 or more persons are employed, or were employed, on any day in the preceding 12 months.
- Any other establishment or class of establishment employing 10 or more people on any day in the preceding 12 months, as notified by the central government.