Examine the accountability of employer for payment of gratuity in the following cases, along with reasons thereof: Ms. Sulabha is working as professor in a private engineering college. Every year she gets a contractual a

Examine the accountability of employer for payment of gratuity in the following cases, along with reasons thereof: Ms. Sulabha is working as professor in a private engineering college. Every year she gets a contractual appointment letter in the beginning of the academic year and the services comes to an end at the end of the academic year. Fresh appointment is issued after following the due process of interview. Sulabha after serving 10 years in this manner, joined another college. She claimed gratuity for serving in the previous college.