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Labour Law › End-of-Service Indemnity

Article 53: Partial Entitlement to Indemnity

In force

In simple words

If you resign from an open-ended contract, you get part of your indemnity based on your years of service: nothing under 3 years, half from 3 to 5 years, two-thirds from 5 to 10 years, and the full amount after 10 years.

Note

Not amended

Article 53 was not changed by the 2017 or 2018 amendments, so the reduced indemnity on resignation (½ after 3 years, ⅔ after 5 years, full after 10 years) still applies.

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Example

Indemnity when you resign

Situation

Maria earns 300 KD a month and resigns after 4 years.

What the law says

Full indemnity would be 4 × 15 days = 60 days × (300 ÷ 26) = 692.31 KD.
Resigning after 3–5 years gives half: 346.15 KD.
After 5–10 years she would get two-thirds, and after 10 years the full amount. Resigning before 3 years gives no indemnity under this article.

Names are made up for illustration.

Official text of Article 53
The labourer shall have the right to receive half the terminal service indemnity, as stipulated in Article (51), if he terminates the unlimited period contract from his own part, and the term of his service is not less than three (3) years and did not complete five (5) years. If the period of his service has reached five (5) years and did not complete ten (10) years, then he shall be entitled to two-thirds of the indemnity. If the term of his service has reached ten (10) years, he shall then be entitled to the full indemnity.
Reference & sources

Kuwait Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Article 53 (Partial Entitlement to Indemnity), 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.