contract of fixed duration
The 2019 Act is generally an improvement of the 2008 Act. In the worker right Act 2019, the act prohibits
the fixed duration contract between employer and employees when the person is employed in
permanent work in nature Apart from exempted cases such as when the employer needs to be
performed a temporary, short-term, or seasonal task when there is an authorized leave or the
worker is an immigrant while employment Act 2008 states that contact of service or employment
whether oral or written is entitled to a wage or salary (Act, 10, 2015). Workers’ rights 2019 states
that contracts or continuous contracts that take more than 12 months are taken as indeterminate
duration of the contract while employment act 2008 does not state period for the determinate duration of a
contract (Act, 27, 2013). The 2019 Act prohibits contracts for training for the determinate duration of
time while the 2008 Act does not restrict the training contracts. Portable Gratuity Fund
the portable gratuity fund established to provide for payment of gratuity when one retires or dies and. the worker’s rights acts differed in the following ways in 2008 and 2019:in 2008 the portable gratuity fund on employment recommends an employer to pay his/her employee who has been continuously working for twelve months and above a gratuity if; the worker volunteers to retire at the age of 60 years or above, if the worker has been continuously working with one employee for more than 10 years and retires before 60 years and lastly if the employer requests the worker to retire before 60 years(act, p, 10, 2015). where else in 2019 the gratuity funds recognize the means of service of an employed person not considering the number of employers he/she worked for.
in 2008 portable gratuity fund at death required that the employee who has been continuously working for more than 12 months dies the employee is to pay the gratuity to the other partner of the deceased or to those depending on the deceased while in 2019 the gratuity is computerized according to the length of service with the final employer(act, p, 4, 2017).