Kuwait... Issuance of a decree “selling vacations” for government sector employees

Today, Kuwait officially issued a decree to amend the civil service system, allowing the sale of leave balances for employees in government agencies.

The decree stipulated, according to Al-Qabas newspaper: that a third paragraph should be added to Article 41 of the decree issued on the civil service system, which states that an employee who has served in the state for no less than five years may receive a cash allowance during service, deducting from the balance of his periodic leaves that he did not benefit from. When requesting an exchange.

The article stipulated that the employee’s balance after cash disbursement should not be less than thirty days until the end of the calendar year, and the Civil Service Council may set other rules and conditions for entitlement and disbursement.

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