Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2257

The employee’s right to claim the financial entitlements prescribed for him. It is time-barred upon the lapse of five years from the due date or one year from the date he learns of them, whichever period expires sooner. The knowledge from which the one-year limitation period begins to run in this regard. Its meaning. Its absence. The period of this type of limitation does not begin to run in its absence. Termination of the employment relationship and the consequent ascertainment of the rights arising from it establishes knowledge. The condition thereof: there must be no evidence that it was delayed until another date. An example.