Gratuity for cashew workers who retired from service from factories managed by the cooperative sector Kerala State Cashew Workers Apex Industrial Cooperative Society (Capex) will be distributed on January 8 by Labour Minister Shibu Baby John at a function at the Eravipuram factory of Capex. Capex chairman Philip K. Thomas and managing director R. Jayachandran said the gratuity dues had been pending since long.They said 10 factories were managed by Capex. Seven of these factories were in Kollam district, two in Alappuzha district and one in Thiruvananthapuram.