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Providing an employee with a repatriation ticket by the company upon resignation?
Good day!
I am writing to get advice on behalf of one of my junior employees. He has resigned from the company after working here for 8 years during which the company has provided him with a ticket back home once during his vacation.
Right now, he is willing to go back home and the company is refusing to provide him the ticket (based on the reason that he resigned and was not terminated), and refusing to include "unused" ticket allowances as well based on "he did not use them on time".
Please let me know if they are legally obliged to provide him with the ticket and if yes, how can I help him to get it?
Dear questioner,
Pursuant to your query, since the employee was not terminated by the employer, the employer is not obliged to pay him for the repatriation flight, however, for his unused ticket, he should get his ticket allowance.
However, if there has been any clause in his offer letter or contract which specifies that there is a certain time period to avail of those tickets then the employee has to abide by that.
If the employee has not been aware of any such clause and there is no written evidence of it, the employee can raise a complaint in the MOHRE.
Kindly contact us via phone or email for further assistance.
