Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2376

Labour action. Its prescription after one year from the time the contract terminates. Article 96/1 of Law No. 38 of 1964. - The period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action is interrupted by a judicial claim, even before a court lacking jurisdiction. A judgment - 459 - Obligation dismissing it or declaring it inadmissible. Its effect. The interruption of prescription based upon it is deemed never to have occurred, and the prescription that began before it was brought continues to run. An example concerning the appellant’s claim for pay in lieu of notice, the ruling that it was inadmissible, and the effect thereof on prescription.