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Labour Law › End-of-Service Indemnity

Article 54: Service Termination Certificate

In force

In simple words

When your job ends, your employer must give you a service certificate showing your period of service, job and last salary. It must not contain anything that harms your chances of finding a new job. The employer must also return all your documents and certificates.

Example

Employer won’t give an experience certificate

Situation

When Rahim leaves, the company refuses to give him an experience letter and keeps his original degree certificate.

What the law says

The employer must give a service certificate (period of service, job, last salary) with nothing negative in it, and must return all his documents.

Names are made up for illustration.

Official text of Article 54
The labourer whose work contract has expired shall obtain from the employer a service termination certificate which consists of a statement of his period of service, profession and the last salary he obtained. This certificate shall not include any expressions which may harm the labourer or that may be issued in such a form that may reduce the chances of work before him, whether explicitly or implicitly. The employer shall return to the labourer any documents or certificates which may be submitted by him.
Reference & sources

Kuwait Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Article 54 (Service Termination Certificate), 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.