Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1083

Nature-of-work allowance. Its nature. A benefit granted to a particular category of State employees because of the obligations required by - 319 - Administrative the burdens of their posts, which do not exist in respect of certain other posts. The consequence thereof. Its connection to the fulfilment of the conditions that prompted its establishment, and it is not an element of the annual salary on the basis of which the end-of-service gratuity is calculated. The judgment’s contravention thereof, its inclusion of the nature-of-work allowance in the salary and its calculation of the end-of-service gratuity due on that basis. A violation of the law requiring its cassation.