Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1200

The Government's obligation to pay a social allowance and a children's allowance to practitioners of professions and trades and to those working in all entities. The Council of Ministers shall issue decisions regulating this, upon a proposal by the Civil Service Council, specifying the amount of each of the two aforementioned allowances, the conditions of entitlement thereto, the professions, trades, work, and entities to which they apply, and the period during which the Government shall continue paying them, provided that the children's allowance shall be fifty dinars for each child up to the fifth child. Article 3 of Law 19 of 2000 concerning support for the national workforce and encouraging it to work in non-governmental entities. This is without prejudice to the acquired rights of employees in governmental entities before the issuance of this Law. - 601 - Procedure - The categories of Kuwaitis to whom the social allowance and children's allowance apply pursuant to Council of Ministers Decision 391/2001. Identification of these categories. - It is established that the respondent is bound by an employment contract concluded between him and a foreign company other than the entities specified in the aforementioned ministerial decision, and the papers contain nothing indicating that this company is linked to the State under an agreement, whereby he is not entitled to benefit from Law 19 of 2000. The challenged judgment's departure from this view. Vitiates it by an error in the application of the law. Fourteenth Types of Departments 1- Enforcement Department:-