Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1427

The parties to an employment contract may agree to reduce the worker’s wage, whether by amending an existing contract or concluding another contract. Its implication. The employer’s obligation to pay that wage. Multiplicity of employment contracts, differences in the amount of wages therein, and treating the period of employment under this contract as continuous or separate. Have no effect on that obligation. The reason for this: it is a debt owed by him, which he discharges in the very amount agreed for the period claimed, to the exclusion of other periods. - The appellant’s assertion that his agreement to reduce his wage in the employment contract resulted from the respondent’s moral ascendancy, without presenting evidence thereof. An unsubstantiated defence.