Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3371

The absence from Law 38/1964 concerning labour in the private sector of a provision governing the accrual of interest on financial obligations arising from an employment contract and owed to either party by the other. Its implication and necessary consequence: recourse in this regard to the provisions of the Civil Code prohibiting claims for interest, rather than the provisions of the Commercial Code permitting the collection of such interest. The reason therefor. Example of the judgment’s error in that regard. - 566 - Commercial