GRATUITY ISSUE – CLARIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
Our Company XXX have his Head office Mumbai started in the 1960s. It started making molasses based chemicals at Maharastra and it was closed in the 1990s. XXX started another company for different products at Madras in 1972. In the 1990s it added some other products same complex. In 2002, the name of the Company was changed as YYY. So 2002 onwards XXX have their Corporate Office at Mumbai and the manufacturing facility at Chennai. This manufacturing has been closed by Dec-12 and it obtained the permission from TN Labour Ministry to close the company and agreed to settle the employees by paying compensation after selling the land We, 84 officers, are approaching Control of Authority, Labour Commissioner office., Chennai.
1)We are not clear whether we should approach the Control Authority of State or Central Government since Head Office is at Mumbai and Factory was at Chennai. The company has got no other business unit.
2)Also, we, the officers ( Management Category), were eligible for 30 days of Gratuity per year of Service as per appointment, promotion letters and even by the letter given by the Chairman after closing the Company. Can the Gratuity Control Authority get us 30 days Gratuity or only 15 days Gratuity as per Act?
Can anyone clarify the above two points?
Our Company XXX have his Head office Mumbai started in the 1960s. It started making molasses based chemicals at Maharastra and it was closed in the 1990s. XXX started another company for different products at Madras in 1972. In the 1990s it added some other products same complex. In 2002, the name of the Company was changed as YYY. So 2002 onwards XXX have their Corporate Office at Mumbai and the manufacturing facility at Chennai. This manufacturing has been closed by Dec-12 and it obtained the permission from TN Labour Ministry to close the company and agreed to settle the employees by paying compensation after selling the land We, 84 officers, are approaching Control of Authority, Labour Commissioner office., Chennai.
1)We are not clear whether we should approach the Control Authority of State or Central Government since Head Office is at Mumbai and Factory was at Chennai. The company has got no other business unit.
2)Also, we, the officers ( Management Category), were eligible for 30 days of Gratuity per year of Service as per appointment, promotion letters and even by the letter given by the Chairman after closing the Company. Can the Gratuity Control Authority get us 30 days Gratuity or only 15 days Gratuity as per Act?
Can anyone clarify the above two points?