Section 141: Employment may be terminated voluntarily

1) Any labour may, by submitting a resignation in writing to the employer, terminate the employment.

2) The employer shall accept the resignation submitted pursuant to sub-section (1) within fifteen days and give information thereof to the labour.

3) Where the employer does not accept the resignation within the time-limit referred to in sub-section (2), such resignation shall be deemed to have been accepted ipso facto from the day following the day on which the time-limit expires.

4) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, the resignation submitted by labour may be cancelled through mutual consent between the employer and the labour.

5) If the labour continues working in the same enterprise even after the day on which his or her resignation is accepted and becomes effective, his or her resignation shall be deemed to have been cancelled.