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Section 86: When You Qualify for Severance Allowance

86.When severance allowance is due

Subject to this Act, an employer shall pay severance allowance where an employee has been in his or her continuous service for a period of six months or more and where any of the following situations apply—

(a)the employee is unfairly dismissed by the employer;

(b)the employee dies in the service of his or her employer, otherwise than by an act occasioned by his or her own serious and wilful misconduct;

(c)the employee terminates his or her contract because of physical incapacity not occasioned by his or her own serious and wilful misconduct;

(d)the contract is terminated by reason of the death or insolvency of the employer;

(e)the contract is terminated by a labour officer following the inability or refusal of the employer to pay wages under section 30; or

(f)such other circumstances as the Minister may, by regulations, provide.

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You have the right to severance allowance if you have worked for your employer continuously for at least six months. Your employer must pay if you are...

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