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Labour Law › Termination of Contract

Article 48: Right to Terminate Without Notice

In force

In simple words

You can leave immediately without notice and still get your full indemnity if your employer breaks the contract or the law (for example by not paying salary), assaults you, lied to you when you signed the contract, falsely accused you of a crime and you were found innocent, behaves immorally towards you, or if the work endangers your health according to the Ministry of Health’s medical committee.

Example

Unpaid salary for 3 months

Situation

Rahim hasn’t been paid for 3 months.

What the law says

Because the employer is breaking the contract and the law, Rahim can leave without notice and still receive his full indemnity. He should first register a complaint with the Public Authority for Manpower to keep a record.

Names are made up for illustration.

Official text of Article 48
A labourer shall have the right to terminate the work contract without notice together with his entitlement to the terminal service indemnity in any of the following cases:
a) If the employer does not abide by the provisions of the contract and the law.
b) If an assault is committed against him by the employer or whoever represents him or by instigation or incitement by either of them.
c) If his continuation of doing the work will threaten his safety or health by a decision by the Medical Arbitration Committee at the Ministry of Health.
d) If the employer or his representative has introduced any act of cheating or fraud at the time of contracting in relation to the contract conditions.
e) If the employer charges the labourer with committing a criminal act and a final judgment is issued declaring his innocence.
f) If the employer or whoever represents him has committed an act that violates the morals against the labourer.
Reference & sources

Kuwait Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Article 48 (Right to Terminate Without Notice), Official Gazette Kuwait Al-Youm, Issue No. 963 (2010). Checked October 2026.

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General information, not legal advice. The Arabic text of the law is the official version (Article 29). For your case, contact the Public Authority for Manpower or a lawyer.