25 February 2013
agree with VaibhavJ when there is professional fee then there will not be any gratuity sometime company do that when an employee retires they hire him as consultant. I think your case is like this but in this gratuity exemption will not be calculated on days when he is working as consultant
25 February 2013
actually it is my sisters frnd's dad who got gratutiy, now she told me that two yrs before her father was employed with salary, and from 2 yrs onwards he is on contract basis.