Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2373

The employee's right to claim his financial entitlements prescribed by the Government. It is time-barred upon the lapse of one year from the date of his knowledge of these entitlements or five years from the due date, whichever period is shorter. - The employee's knowledge of his financial entitlements. What is meant by it. Actual, not conjectural or presumed, knowledge of the right, its extent, and its essential elements in terms of its amount, due date, and the entity owing it. Absence of knowledge in this manner. The limitation period does not begin thereby. - Ascertainment of the employee's knowledge of his financial entitlement. A matter of fact for the court of the merits. Its condition.