Hi Samira,
Gratuity is a lump sum amount that an employer pays the employee (on contract) when he retires or resigns from the organization. An employee does not contribute any portion of his salary towards this amount. The rationale for gratuity is to encourage employees to offer longer service to the employer and to ease the termination of contract of employment by offering the sum of gratuity as consolation.
For more details about, please refer to the link:
http://goo.gl/ynqXd
Answered by
Ravi shastri
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3:45 PM on March 02, 2013