For covered federal part-time and job-sharing arrangements, the implementing framework scales the full-time traditional gratuity by the ratio of contracted annual working hours to equivalent full-time annual working hours. The hours ratio must therefore be established from the actual contract rather than guessed from a job title.
Working-hours-ratio calculation applied to the full-time gratuity reference
What it cannot determineTemporary employment under one year, ADGM and DIFC
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Federal Article 30 of the implementing regulation scales the full-time gratuity by contracted annual hours divided by full-time annual hours. Confirm employment type, service exclusions and whether the traditional gratuity system still applies.
Formula used
Part-time gratuity = full-time traditional gratuity reference × (contracted annual working hours ÷ equivalent full-time annual working hours).
Assumptions to verify
- The worker is in a part-time or job-sharing model covered by the federal implementing regulation.
- The federal traditional gratuity system applies rather than the Savings Scheme or a separate jurisdiction.
- The entered contracted and full-time comparison hours accurately represent the relevant employment arrangements.
What this result does not prove
- Employment below the traditional-gratuity eligibility threshold.
- Unpaid-absence adjustments not included in this focused hours-ratio tool.
- ADGM, DIFC, domestic-worker or pension arrangements.
Why “part-time” is not automatically 50%
A worker described as part-time may work 20, 24, 30 or another number of hours each week. The calculation uses the annual-hours percentage, so the ratio must come from contracted hours and the equivalent full-time arrangement.
Example: 24 hours compared with 48 hours
If the relevant annual hours are exactly half of the equivalent full-time hours, the ratio is 50%, so the part-time reference amount is 50% of the full-time traditional-gratuity amount. If the actual ratio is 62.5%, the result should use 62.5%, not an assumed “half-time” label.
Calculate the full-time reference correctly first
The hours ratio does not replace the normal eligibility, basic-wage and service rules. Establish the full-time traditional-gratuity reference on the correct basic wage and eligible service, then apply the working-hours ratio.
When this tool is not appropriate
Do not use it for a Savings Scheme account, ADGM/DIFC employment, domestic workers or another end-of-service framework. Use the jurisdiction finder if the governing system is unclear.
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