Employee Joined as Trainee is Eligible for Gratuity

Chairman-Cum-Managing Vs Controlling Authority (Orissa High Court) The issue under consideration is whether the employee joined as a trainee is eligible for gratuity as per Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972? High Court states that definition of the term ’employee’ in Section 2(e) excludes an employee from its scope. The term ‘apprentice’ has been defined in Section 2(a) of the Apprentices Act, 1961 (in short, ‘Apprentices Act’) in the following words, ‘Apprentice’ means a person who is undergoing apprenticeship training in a designated trade in pursu...