Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4196

The maximum working hours are eight hours daily. Hotel, restaurant, guard and hospital work is excepted from the rules regulating work owing to its special nature. Article 33, Law 38 of 1964 concerning labour in the private sector. Such work falls outside the scope of application of Article 34 of the same Law. The Minister of Social Affairs and Labour’s failure to issue a decision specifying the amount of the increase in the aforementioned work. The worker’s written agreement with the company to specify a wage inclusive of ordinary work and work for additional hours. Work during those hours is not considered overtime as stipulated in Article 34. Its effect. Pay for those hours may not be calculated on the basis laid down therein.