Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2076

The employee’s right to claim his prescribed financial entitlements against the Government becomes time-barred upon the lapse of one year from the date of his knowledge of those entitlements or five years from the date of entitlement, whichever period expires earlier. What is meant by this knowledge: the employee’s knowledge of his financial entitlement, its extent and its essential elements. Its absence. The one-year limitation period does not commence in its absence. Example. - 398 - Obligation