Qatar Final Settlement Calculator (Gratuity, Leave & Notice)

About the Qatar Final Settlement Calculator (Gratuity, Leave & Notice)

Work out what is due when a job in Qatar ends, item by item, under Labour Law No. 14 of 2004: the end-of-service gratuity of at least three weeks’ basic wage for each year of service, cash for the annual leave you have not taken (with the part of the last leave year), the compensation for notice that was not observed — owed by whichever side ended the contract without it — salary not yet paid, and anything else owed either way. 7.33 years of service on a QAR 8,000 basic wage come to a gratuity of QAR 41,071.78.

The notice follows the amendments of Decree-Law No. 18 of 2020: one month during the first and second year of work and two months after, with the probation rules of Article 39, and compensation at the basic wage. The gratuity is worked out by the same engine as the Gulf gratuity calculator. Nothing you type leaves your browser. Without a pass the page gives a free preview of your own result: the total in full, with the rule behind each item and every amount hidden until you unlock it with a Pro pass.

What a final settlement includes

• End-of-service gratuity: after a full year of service, at least three weeks’ wage for each year, fractions in proportion, on the last basic wage (Article 54; see the Gulf gratuity calculator for its working). None on a dismissal under Article 61.
• Unused annual leave: cash for the leave days due when the contract ends before they are taken (Article 81), on the basic wage (Article 72) — three weeks a year under five years of service, four weeks from five, the last part year in proportion.
• Notice not observed: the worker’s basic wage for the notice period, or the part of it not observed, paid by whichever side ended the contract without it (Articles 39 and 49).
• Salary not yet paid and other amounts owed, less what the worker owes the employer, which may be taken from the gratuity (Article 54).

Notice periods

After probation either side may end the contract without giving reasons, with written notice of one month during the first and second year of work and two months after the second year (Article 49 as amended by Decree-Law No. 18 of 2020, Arabic text). Notice not observed costs the side that ended the contract the worker’s basic wage for the notice period or what is left of it. A notice period worked as usual is paid at the full wage (Article 50).

During probation — at most 6 months — the employer gives at least a month’s notice; a worker moving to another employer gives at least a month, and the new employer compensates the old one for the ticket and recruitment costs, at most 2 months’ basic wage; a worker leaving Qatar gives the notice in the contract, at most two months (Article 39).

Leaving or dismissal without notice

A worker may leave without notice and keep the full gratuity when the employer breaks the contract or the law, assaults the worker or a family member, misled the worker about the terms, ignores a serious danger to their health or safety, or after a final decision of a labour dispute committee in the worker’s favour (Article 51). An employer may dismiss without notice and without the gratuity only in the cases of Article 61 — such as forged papers, repeated breaches after a written warning, disclosing secrets, more than 7 days’ absence in a row or 15 in a year without good reason, or a final conviction for a crime of dishonour or dishonesty.

When and how it is paid

The employer pays the wage and every amount due before the end of the working day after the contract ends; when the worker left without the notice of Article 49, within seven days of leaving (Article 67). Wages and dues are paid in Qatari riyals (Article 66). The employer also pays for the worker’s return to the place of recruitment (Article 57), and gives a service certificate on request at no charge and returns the worker’s documents (Article 53, Al Meezan).

Official sources

• Al Meezan — Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Articles 38–57: the employment contract and the gratuity (English translation, without the amendments of Decree-Law No. 18 of 2020 to Articles 39, 49 and 51)
• Al Meezan — Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Articles 38–57 with the 2020 amendments (Arabic)
• Al Meezan — Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Articles 58–64: discipline and dismissal (English)
• Al Meezan — Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Articles 65–72: wages (English)
• Al Meezan — Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Articles 73–85: working hours and leave (English)

Al Meezan is the State of Qatar’s legal portal. Articles 39, 49 and 51 were amended by Decree-Law No. 18 of 2020; the amended text is in the Arabic version, which the calculator follows.

A day’s wage

The law states the gratuity in weeks of wage and leave in weeks, but not how a monthly wage becomes a day’s wage. The calculator divides the monthly wage by 30 by default, or multiplies it by 12 and divides by 365, and shows the working; three weeks of gratuity are 21 days. Leave cash and the notice compensation use the basic wage, and salary not yet paid uses the full wage with allowances.

Limitations

• Follows Labour Law No. 14 of 2004 for the private sector; government staff, domestic workers and the other groups of Article 3 have their own rules.
• A contract, collective agreement or the employer’s rules may give more than the law’s minimums, and an employer’s retirement scheme that gives more replaces the gratuity (Article 56).
• The leave estimate counts leave years from the start date at 21 or 28 days a year; if your employer counts it otherwise, enter the balance you know.
• Qatari employees insured under the Social Insurance Law have pension rights that this settlement does not cover.
• Disputes go to the labour dispute settlement committees; this estimate is no substitute for the employer’s statement or for advice on your own case.

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