Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4932

The legal prerequisite for instituting a labour action. Its nature. The worker’s submission of an application to the Labour Office to settle the dispute between him and the employer. - The judgment’s treatment of the application submitted by the worker in an action adjudged as if it had never been brought as still subsisting and producing its effect in the current action, in which no other application was submitted. An error in the application of the law. The reason: treating the action as if it had never been brought entails the extinction of the proceedings in the action and the extinction of all effects arising therefrom, including the application submitted by the worker therein.