Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 73

Employing workers who are neither Kuwaitis nor citizens of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. Its condition. - Issuing work permits and authorizations for foreigners, and renewing and transferring them, is entrusted to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, which has the right to refuse this in accordance with what it considers to serve the public interest as assessed by it. Article 20 of Ministerial Decision No. 119 of 1998 concerning the Regulation of Work in the Private Sector. An example.