Pay staff their salaries, Kuwait MoE warns private schools

KUWAIT CITY - Ministry of Education has warned all private schools that it will take legal measures against them if the salaries of their employees are not paid, reports Al-Anba daily.

In a circular sent to all private schools, the Assistant Undersecretary for Private Education in the ministry Dr. Abdel Mohsen Al-Huwaila said teachers of private schools are entitled to receive salaries based on the private sector labor law No. 6/2010, and based on the entitlement of workers in private schools to wages and salaries determined for them under employment contracts when they are no classes including during the summer vacation.

He affirmed that the ministry represented by the private education sector will initiate legal procedures, and coordinate with the Public Authority for Manpower to take the prescribed measures against those schools that are proven to not pay the wages of their teachers.

This is aimed to avoid breaching the rights of the workers in private schools specified in the labor law of the private sector, and to preserve the ministry’s right to administrative closure of the schools that fail to abide by such laws