Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 572

Permissibility of reappointing an employee whose service in the general posts group has ended, whenever the legally prescribed conditions are satisfied in his regard, whether at the same grade he previously held and at the same salary, or at a higher salary or a grade higher than his previous grade. - Impermissibility, upon reappointment, of reducing the employee’s rights and entitlements below what he previously attained, whether as regards his employment grade or the salary he received in his previous post. - The challenged judgment’s finding that the respondent worked at the Ministry of Health and received a children’s allowance for his eleven children, that his service ended by resignation, that he was then reappointed at the Ministry of Education effective 10/6/2000, and that all his children had been born before the promulgation of Law No. 19 of 2000 concerning support for national manpower and encouraging it to work in government entities. Its effect: the respondent acquired a legal status that may not be infringed and is entitled to the allowance for his eleven children as part of the salary he previously received at the Ministry of Health. Basis thereof.