Gratuity, severance and final pay in Zambia: organise your entitlements
Separate salary, notice, leave, gratuity and other benefits before asking for a termination calculation.
Final pay is not one universal formula. Your employment category, contract, service history and reason for leaving affect the assessment. Prepare each payment separately and ask which current provisions apply. This guide does not calculate a benefit or promise that every listed item is payable.
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What this guide covers
- Record how employment ended
- List salary and allowances separately
- Ask about notice and leave
- Distinguish gratuity and severance
- Reconcile deductions and prior payments
- Understand any settlement document
- Take an unresolved calculation for help
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How we prepare and review content →Official and institutional sources
- Employment Code Act, 2019 — National Assembly ↗
Publisher record of the 2019 Act. Check amendments, commencement and the provisions applicable to the employment relationship.
- Workplace dispute resolution — Ministry of Labour and Social Security ↗
Official service guidance. It refers to older legislation; use it to identify the mediation service, not to establish the current legal test.