Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1153

An employee's request to resign pursuant to the general principles of public employment and its legal regime. Does not in itself produce its legal effect of severing the employment relationship. This depends upon the decision issued by the administrative authority expressly accepting it or the expiry of the period after which it is deemed accepted by operation of law. The consequence thereof. This employee must continue performing his work and carrying out the duties of his office. - Referral of the employee for investigation. Constitutes an impediment preventing acceptance of his resignation or application of the presumption of its acceptance by operation of law through expiry of the time limit and its being considered accepted. The reason for this. Its connection with the disciplinary system and the deterrence on which it is based, and to prevent the employee from escaping disciplinary accountability for the administrative wrongdoing he has committed. - The challenged judgment concluding that the respondent's status as an employee ceased from the date he submitted his resignation rather than from the date of the decision accepting it. An error in the application of the law requiring its cassation.