Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 5028

Labour action. Its prescription upon the passage of one year from the time the contract ended. Article 96/1 of Law No. 38 of 1964. - The period prescribed for barring the hearing of an action is interrupted by a judicial claim, even before a court lacking jurisdiction. A judgment dismissing it or declaring it inadmissible. Its effect. The interruption of prescription based upon it is deemed never to have occurred, and the prescription that began before it was brought continues to run. Example concerning the appellant’s claim for payment in lieu of notice, the ruling of inadmissibility thereof, and its effect on prescription.