Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2025

An employment action. Time-barred after one year from the date the employment contract ends. The existence of an impediment to claiming the right. Effect thereof. Suspension of the running of that period and its resumption upon removal of the impediment. Invoking the impediment after completion of the prescription period. No basis therefor. - Ruling to reject the plea that the action cannot be heard owing to the passage of time, on the basis that negotiations concerning the worker's return to work constitute an impediment suspending the running of that period, when it is established that the negotiations did not begin after the one-year period had expired and therefore there is no basis for treating them as an impediment. Error in applying the law. - 385 - Obligation