Living and working in Kuwait

When a Kuwait job ends, you are owed your indemnity. If your employer ended the contract, you get all of it (Art. 52). Ask PAM when your final pay is due.

The Kuwait Towers and the Liberation Tower in the Kuwait City skyline, seen across the water on a hazy day. — Photo: Mahrs Multiverse, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and colour-graded

Your time limits

Time limit to claim: 1 year from the end of the contract, where your employer denies the claim. Apply to the PAM labour relations unit first. (Arts. 144 and 146)

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Indemnity: 15 days' pay a year for the first 5 years, then a month's pay a year. If you are paid monthly, 18 months' pay is the most. (Art. 51)
If you resign: From an open-ended contract: nothing under 3 years. Half from 3 years. Two thirds from 5. All of it from 10. (Art. 53)
If your employer ends it: The full indemnity, with no minimum service. The exception is a dismissal for one of the three acts in Article 41(a). (Arts. 41 and 52)

Work out the exact figure with the Kuwait calculator on eosbcalculator.com.