I resigned from my company on July 2. Can I leave the company after one month after paying them for the rest of the remaining two months, even though I had not mentioned about paying them in my resignation letter. Please let me know whether it is mandatory to mention in the resignation letter in advance about paying the company, or one can pay them any time during the notice period whether it is mentioned in the resignation letter or not.

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Answer: You can’t on your own decide on the length of the notice. This has to be mutually decided by you and the company.
In fact, it is the company’s discretion on whether to allow you to give a notice of anything less than 3 months. Only if the company agrees you can do that.
If the company doesn’t agree then you have to serve a 3-month notice and stay with the company for the duration. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor will not transfer your residence if your company doesn’t allow you to transfer before completion of the 3 months.
So, it doesn’t matter if you have intentioned the same in your letter or not, you have to get permission from your company to leave before 3 months.
 

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I just want to ask on behalf of my husband. He was hired from abroad and he is a university graduate. We are planning to migrate to another country next year. He will have worked exactly 3 years on July 25, 2013.
Our questions are the following:
1. Can he give 3-month notice before July 25? For instance can he give notice on April 25, 2013 which will be exactly 3 years on July 25, 2012.
2. My son is dependent on my husband, if in case he does not renew contract and migrates to other country, does it mean my son’s visa will also be cancelled immediately? My husband’s Civil ID will expire on June 5, 2014.

Name withheld
Yes, your husband can give a 3-month notice on April 25, 2013 because the notice period, according to the new Kuwait Labour Law, has to be counted in the service. Some of the firms who are not familiar with the law think otherwise, but they are all wrong and are advised to read Article 44(d).
Secondly, your son’s visa will also be cancelled once your husband cancels his residence. It’s very simple, if the sponsor of an individual doesn’t have residence, then how can you give residence to his dependents. It doesn’t matter when his Civil ID card will expire, because such cards are worthless once there is no residence.