Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 726

The special legislation on higher education permits university faculty members and teaching assistants who were appointed at the university and had held government positions to retain the last salary they received in their former positions, even if it exceeds the salary scale of the position to which they are appointed at the university, while granting them one of its increments, contrary to Civil Service Council Decision No. 6 of 1984, which is general legislation requiring that a transferred employee's salary be calculated on the basis of the position to which the employee is transferred, regardless of - 205 - Administrative the employee's salary in the cadre from which the employee is transferred. Necessary consequence. The provision contained in the special legislation must be followed. Reason therefor. So that the purpose for which it was enacted is not defeated.