As per the law, all the people have completed the five continuous years in the company as employee are eligible for the gratuity.
The other thing that I want to suggest is thatl, if an owner is aged, closing the running company is not the solution but the owner should hand over the responsibilities to one of the trusted person who can run the company successfully.
As of now, Ratan Tata is aged now but he can not think of closing the company but to handover it to a eligible and trusted person as there's so many people are employed by his companies.
It's also not the matter of small or big company but thinking about the future of people who worked for you for so longer whether it 2 people or 2 crore or more.
The other thing that I want to suggest is thatl, if an owner is aged, closing the running company is not the solution but the owner should hand over the responsibilities to one of the trusted person who can run the company successfully.
As of now, Ratan Tata is aged now but he can not think of closing the company but to handover it to a eligible and trusted person as there's so many people are employed by his companies.
It's also not the matter of small or big company but thinking about the future of people who worked for you for so longer whether it 2 people or 2 crore or more.