Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4415

The old-age, disability, sickness and death insurance scheme. Its replacement of the end-of-service gratuity scheme. In respect of Kuwaiti workers mentioned in the promulgation articles of Law 61 of 1976. - The employer’s obligations under the insurance scheme. Their nature. - Benefiting from the more favourable benefit scheme. Its condition. That the worker to whom the scheme was applied was in service on the effective date of Law 61 of 1976. A person entering service after that date. His right to enjoy the more favourable benefit in addition to what is due to insured persons under the insurance prescribed by the aforementioned law. Recourse against the Public Institution for Social Security for the obligations arising therefrom. Its criterion. Approval of this scheme by its Board of Directors, whether it existed before the law took effect or was introduced after it came into operation.