End of Service
The service of the employee shall end for one of the following reasons:

- Reaching the age of 60. (The employee, after reaching the age of 60, may remain on job for public interest considerations).
- End of the contract.
- Resignation.
- Medical incapacity. (The employee’s medical incapacity can be proved by the report issued by the competent medical authority as per the employee’s request or as per the employer he/she is working for. The service of the employee must not be terminated for medical incapacity before the exhaustion of the leaves to which the employee is entitled, except by his/her consent and provided that the employee gets a compensation for the accumulated leaves before the end of the service).
- Disciplinary dismissal.
- Dismissal by an cabinet decision for reasons related to public interest.
- Issuance of a final judgment against the employee in a crime in breach of honor or honesty. However, if the judgment includes a stay of execution or is issued for the first time against the employee, the service of the latter shall not end unless the Government Entity issues a reasoned decision based on the merits of the case to dismiss him/her as his/her existence might be inconsistent with the job requirements or nature.
- Loss of the Qatari citizenship.
- Death.
In the event of the employee’s death, the government entity shall release at once the full salary for the month in which the employee died, in addition to the next three months. These amounts shall be considered as a grant and not as a part of the end-of-service benefits. In addition, they shall not in any case be subject to lien or set-off from any amounts that might be due to the government entity from the deceased employee.

The government entity shall bear the expenses of preparing and transferring the body of the non-Qatari employee, who died in the course of his/her employment with the government entity, to his/her homeland, along with a travel ticket to one of the deceased’s relatives to accompany the body.
In the event where the employee dies or becomes totally or partially disabled, in the course of employment or because of it, the employee or his/her heirs, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a compensation for the death or the disability and it shall be determined as follows:

- In case of death or total disability, the compensation shall be equivalent to the employee’s full salary for 2 years or the legally decided blood money, whichever is greater. The death resulting from stress or exhaustion from work is considered a work injury if it is proven by the competent medical authority.
- In case of partial disability, the compensation shall be assessed by a percentage of the total disability compensation equivalent to the percentage of the partial disability to the total disability pursuant to the decision of the competent medical authority.
Resignation

The employee is entitled to resign from his/her job. The authority concerned with the approval of the resignation is the same as the appointment authority, provided that the resignation is submitted in writing and does not include any condition or restriction, and mentions the date of the end of service.

The resignation request should be settled within 30 days as of its submittal, otherwise it will be considered as legally approved. However, the approval of the resignation request during this period may be postponed for a similar period for reasons related to the interest of work.
If the employee is referred to a disciplinary interrogation, his/her resignation shall not be approved before a decision is reached regarding the sanction to be imposed other than that of dismissal.

End of Service Benefit
The Qatari employee who has spent at least one year working for a government entity, shall be entitled to an end-of-service benefit counted as follows: a one (1) month salary for every year of the first five (5) years of service, a salary of one month and a half for every year of the next five (5) years of service, and a salary of two (2) months for every year after that.

The end of service benefit for the non-Qatari employee shall be counted based on a one-month salary for each year of service, subject to a maximum limit of 10 months.

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