Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 714

The Government's obligation to pay a social allowance and a children’s allowance to practitioners of professions and trades and to those working in all entities, and the Council of Ministers shall issue the decisions regulating this, upon the proposal of the Civil Service Council, determining the value of each of the 2 aforementioned allowances, the conditions of entitlement thereto, the professions, trades, jobs and entities to which they apply, and the period during which the Government shall continue paying them, provided that the children’s allowance is 50 dinars for each child up to the 5th child. Art. 3, Law 19 of 2000 concerning support for the national workforce and encouraging it to work in non-governmental entities. This is without prejudice to the acquired rights of employees in governmental entities before the issuance of this Law. - The categories of Kuwaitis to whom the social allowance and children’s allowance apply pursuant to Council of Ministers Decision 391/2001. Statement of these categories. - It being established that the respondent is bound by an employment contract concluded between him and a foreign company other than the entities specified in the aforementioned ministerial decision, and the documents containing nothing indicating that this company is linked to the State under an agreement, he is not entitled to benefit from Law 19 of 2000. The challenged judgment's departure from this view. Renders it defective for error in the application of the law.