Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4650

The old-age, disability, sickness and death insurance scheme. Its replacement of the end-of-service gratuity scheme. With respect to 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 better-benefit scheme. Its condition. The worker to whom the scheme was applied must have been in service on the date Law 61 of 1976 entered into force. A person joining service after that date. His right to - 897 - Labour benefit from the better benefit in addition to what insured persons are entitled to 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 entered into force or was introduced after it came into operation.