Our organization is an NGO. We terminated one of our employees due to habitual absenteeism. This employee had taken a loan from our employees' cooperative society (registered, independent). Kindly guide me on whether we can deduct the loan amount from the gratuity amount.
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From India, Jhagadia
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Hi 1) Gratutity, PF etc. payments we can not stop because they are statutory payments. 2) But you can hold the same for some time and ask them to clear the loan amount. Rgds Ganesh
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Dear Sheth,
Do you have a procedure for a proper loan application and for seeking a surety who undertakes to pay back the loan in case the person defaults? If no such provision exists, then only his wages/salary can be held back.
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Col. Suresh Rathi
From India, Delhi
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Do you have a procedure for a proper loan application and for seeking a surety who undertakes to pay back the loan in case the person defaults? If no such provision exists, then only his wages/salary can be held back.
Regards,
Col. Suresh Rathi
From India, Delhi
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Dear Bankim Sheth,
With regards to your query as to whether you can deduct loan amount from the gratuity. Answer to the query is a BIG NO. You cannot deduct the loan amount from the gratuity dues. Section 13 of the Payment of Gratuity Act,1972 is relevent, which protects the gratuity and is reproduced below:-
Section 13. Protection of gratuity.—No gratuity payable under this Act and no gratuity payable to an employee employed in any establishment, factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop exempted under section 5 shall be liable to attachment in execution of any decree or order of any civil, revenue or criminal court.When an amount accrual on account of gratuity has a legal protection under the law, recovering or setting off ANY amount from it is unthinkable.
However you free to recover the loan amount from the persons, who stood grantors in favour of the individual.
BS Kalsi
Member since Aug 2011
From India, Mumbai
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With regards to your query as to whether you can deduct loan amount from the gratuity. Answer to the query is a BIG NO. You cannot deduct the loan amount from the gratuity dues. Section 13 of the Payment of Gratuity Act,1972 is relevent, which protects the gratuity and is reproduced below:-
Section 13. Protection of gratuity.—No gratuity payable under this Act and no gratuity payable to an employee employed in any establishment, factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop exempted under section 5 shall be liable to attachment in execution of any decree or order of any civil, revenue or criminal court.When an amount accrual on account of gratuity has a legal protection under the law, recovering or setting off ANY amount from it is unthinkable.
However you free to recover the loan amount from the persons, who stood grantors in favour of the individual.
BS Kalsi
Member since Aug 2011
From India, Mumbai
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