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  • per wage workers: A wage of(15) fifteen days for each year of the first five years and a wage of (one month) for each of the years following the first five years, so that the Gratuity does not exceed a year and a half.
  • Per daily, weekly workers or pieceworker, they get (10) days for each year of service from the first five years and fifteen (15) days for each of the following years so that the Gratuity shall not exceed one year’s wages.

In this case we have to distinguish between that: If the contract was a fixed term contract, then the worker in this case entitled to get his end of service gratuity. If the employment contract without a fixed term and the employer terminate this contract then, the worker is entitled to get end of service Gratuity. The worker is not entailed to get his end of service gratuity if: His work period was (3) three years and he terminates his unfixed term contract on his part, are not attended to his work without an acceptable excuse for seven continuous days or twenty separate days during the year, which gives the employer the right to consider the employee resigned.


1. passage of Three years from the date of issuing the
work permit.
2. The transfer should be made by the owner of another
small or medium- enterprise (I.e. within the SME sector).
3. The assessment of the need for the new employer
should allow the addition of new employment to his file

The transfer should be to the same sector in which the worker has been recruited. so its prohibited transfer the work permit outside these sectors.   The transfer shall be one year after the date of issuing the worker’s work permit.   The employer’s consent to transfer to another employer is required.

  1. expiration of the governmental contract, on which the employee entered the country.
  2. The transfer to another government contract with the same employer, if any, and the worker shall pay a fee of 200 KD, or transferring the main file to the same employer (whether the contract terminated or still in force). in this case the worker shall pay a fee of 350 KD. besides, the transfer of the workers contract may be for a governmental contract of another employer (whether the contract terminated or still in force). in this case the worker shall pay.
  3. The employer’s consent to transfer the worker to another employer or if the project is withdrawn by the government agency that owns the project. In this case, the General Authority for Manpower shall transfer all the employees to the new company


– concerning the locally contracted worker (i.e., who was recruited to work in the private sector and then transferred within Kuwait to work based on governmental contract) and wishes to return to work in the private sector; then he shall comply with the following:

1. a period of one year from the date of issuing the work permit for locally employed workers based on governmental contracts. An exception may be made to reduce that term after (6) months, provided that the worker shall pay f a financial fee of (300) KD three hundred Kuwaiti Dinars.
2. The employer’s consent to transfer to another employer. is required.

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