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Labour Law › General Provisions

Article 6: Minimum Labor Rights

In force

In simple words

The rights in this law are the minimum. If your contract, company rules or common practice gives you something better, you keep the better benefit.

Example

Contract gives more than the law

Situation

Lina’s contract gives her 35 days of annual leave. A new manager says the law only requires 30 days.

What the law says

The law is only the minimum. Because her contract gives more, she keeps her 35 days.

Names are made up for illustration.

Official text of Article 6
Without prejudice to any other better privileges and rights prescribed for labourers in their individual or collective employment contracts or in the special systems or the applicable rules and regulations at the employer or according to the ethics of profession or the public customs, norms and traditions, the provisions of this law shall represent the minimum limit for the labourers' rights.
Reference & sources

Kuwait Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Article 6 (Minimum Labor Rights), 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.