Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1101

An adjustment action in which the employee seeks his entitlement derived directly from the law. The claim therein is not subject to the time limits for an annulment action. The Administrative Circuit has jurisdiction to hear it as a salary dispute. - The criterion in characterising an action is not the description given by the litigants but the facts ascertained by the court, to which it applies the correct legal characterisation. Its condition: that it not change the substance of their claims.