BANGLADESH LABOUR ACT 2006 - ACT 27 & 28
27. Termination of employment by workers: (1) A permanent worker may resign from his service by giving to the employer in writing sixty days’ notice
(2) A temporary worker may resign from his service by giving to the employer in writing-
(a) thirty days’ notice, if he is a monthly rated worker;
(b) fourteen days’ notice in case of other worker.
(3) Where a worker intends to resigns from his service without any notice, he may do so by paying to the employer wages in lieu of the notice which is required to be given under sub-section (1) or (2), as the case may be.
(4) Where a permanent worker resigns from his service under this section, he shall be paid by the employer compensation-
(a) at the rate of fourteen days wages for every completed year of service, it he has completed five years of continuous service or more but less than ten years;
(b) at the rate of thirty days wages for every completed year of service if he has completed ten years of continuous service or more;
or gratuity, if any, whichever is higher, in addition to any other benefit to which he may be entitled under this Act.
28. Retirement of worker: (1) A worker employed in any establishment shall, notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this chapter, retire from employment ipso facto on the completion of the fifty-seventh year of his age.
(2) For the purpose of counting age of the worker under this section the date of birth recoded in the service book of the concerned worker shall be the conclusive proof.
(3) Every retiring worker under the provisions of section 26(4) or under own service rule of the establishment, shall be paid his benefits due to him.
(4) Appropriate authority, if thinks proper, may afterwards, employ the retiring worker under contract.
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