Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4949

The application submitted by the worker to the competent Labour Department to claim his labour entitlements. It is the only procedure the worker is required to undertake in labour actions, and it initiates the judicial claim procedures. Article 96 of Law 38/1964 before its repeal. Failure of an amicable settlement between the worker and the employer. The employer may be summoned by a statement of claim to appear before the court to hear the judgment rendered concerning the entitlements included in the application. The absence in the law of a requirement that the worker bring a single action for all the entitlements stated in that application. Its implication. His submission of the application and restriction of his action to one of his claims do not preclude that application from being valid for claiming the remaining entitlements in a subsequent action. The condition thereof: the period prescribed for barring the hearing of the action must not have elapsed. Contravention thereof: an error in the application of the law requiring cassation of the judgment.