Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 951

An employee's lack of entitlement to any salaries, allowances, or employment benefits during the period of his absence from work. Its effect when the administration reinstates the absent employee without exercising its option to deem him resigned. His lack of entitlement to any of them. - The government's right to recover what it paid to the employee without entitlement becomes time-barred upon the expiry of five years from the date of payment. The administration's decision to recover those sums after the right to recover them has become time-barred. The judgment's ruling - 287 - Administrative annulling it. A correct result. The ground of challenge against it. Ineffectual.