Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1100

An employee whose service has ended may be reappointed in the general positions group whenever the legally prescribed conditions are satisfied in his case, whether in the same grade he previously held and at the same salary, or at a higher salary or in a grade of his previous grade. - An employee's rights and entitlements may not fall below what he previously attained, whether in respect of his employment grade and the salary he received in his previous position, upon his reappointment. - The challenged judgment's finding that the respondent worked at the Ministry of Health and received a children's allowance for his eleven children, that his service ended by resignation, and that he was then reappointed at the Ministry of Education effective 10/6/2000, and that all his children had been born before the issuance of Law No. 19 of 2000 concerning support for the national workforce and encouraging it to work in government entities. Its effect: the respondent acquired a legal status that may not be infringed and is entitled to an allowance for his eleven children as part of the salary he previously received at the Ministry of Health. Basis thereof.