Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 942

Employment allowances and benefits. Their connection with occupying the posts listed in the salary schedule and funded from the general budget and actually performing their duties. - Nature-of-work allowance. Entitlement to it as a benefit granted to a particular category of workers whose posts entail burdens and obligations absent from certain other posts, and contingent upon fulfillment of the legal conditions and performance of the duties of the post. - Issuance of the Civil Service Council's decision granting researchers, specialists, professionals, and technicians in the research departments of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research a nature-of-work allowance according to the schedule annexed to the decision, distinguishing Kuwaiti scientific researchers by an additional increase in the rates of this allowance, specifying these job titles exhaustively, and not including the grade of Assistant Director General of the Institute, which was subsequently created. Its implication. His lack of entitlement to the additional increase in the nature-of-work allowance prescribed exclusively for scientific researchers. The judgment's departure from this is a violation of the Service Council's decisions governing the grant of the allowance. It requires partial cassation of the judgment.