Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2073

The employee's right to claim his prescribed financial entitlements against the government. Time-barred upon the expiry of 1 year from the date of his knowledge of those entitlements or 5 years from the date they fall due, whichever period is earlier. - The employee's knowledge of his financial entitlements. Its meaning. Actual, not conjectural or presumed, knowledge of the right, its extent and its essential elements in terms of its amount, the date it falls due and the entity owing it. Absence of knowledge in this manner. Does not start the limitation period. - Ascertaining the employee's knowledge of his financial entitlement. A matter of fact for the court of merits. Its condition.