Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1108

An employee’s absence from work without permission for fifteen consecutive days or thirty non-consecutive days within twelve months. Its effect. He is deemed to have resigned. The administration’s acceptance of his excuse and reinstatement of him in his work. Its necessary consequence. Depriving him of any salaries, allowances or other employment benefits, including the periodic increment, during the absence. The period of absence is not included in calculating the period for which he is entitled to a periodic increment. The judgment’s departure from this. It vitiates it in a manner requiring its cassation. - The employee’s entitlement to the periodic increment. Its timing.