Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2241

The employee's lack of entitlement to salaries, allowances or employment benefits during his absence from work. Effect thereof. When the administration reinstates the absent employee without exercising its option to deem him resigned: he is not entitled to any of them. - Limitation of the Government's right to recover what it paid to the employee without right upon the lapse of five years from the date of disbursement. The administration's decision to recover them after the right to recovery became time-barred. The judgment's annulment of it. A correct result. The challenge to it is ineffectual.