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Labour Law › Working Hours, Rest Days & Holidays

Article 65: Breaks During Work

In force

In simple words

After 5 hours of continuous work you must get a break of at least 1 hour, which is not counted as working time. Banks and financial companies can work 8 straight hours. If the Minister allows work without a break, the working day must be at least one hour shorter.

New rule

Ministerial Resolution No. 15 of 2025 · 1 November 2025

Break times must now be recorded on the Public Authority for Manpower’s electronic platform together with working hours.

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Example

No break in a long shift

Situation

A warehouse worker is told to work 7 hours straight without any break.

What the law says

After 5 continuous hours there must be a break of at least 1 hour, which is not counted as working time. Banks and financial firms are an exception and can work 8 continuous hours.

Names are made up for illustration.

Official text of Article 65
a) The labourer shall not be made to work for more than five continuous hours per day without being followed by a break period of not less than one hour. Break hours shall not be calculated within the working hours. The banking, financial and investment sector shall be exempted from this provision and the working hours shall be eight continuous hours.
b) Upon the approval of the Minister, labourers may be made to work without any break for technical or emergency reasons or in office works, provided that the total worked hours per day shall be, according to the provision of the above Article 64, at least one hour less.
Reference & sources

Kuwait Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Article 65 (Breaks During Work), 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.