Laid off Kuwaitis start to fight back

Khaled al Duwaisan was in hospital for two days when he checked his phone’s inbox expecting to see supportive messages from family and friends. Instead, it was a message from his boss, and the news was not good: he had been fired.

“Why didn’t they talk to me, I am a human being,” Mr al Duwaisan said. “There was no clear reason. They only mentioned the economic problem.”

Mr al Duwaisan said he had been working for the Islamic financial institution Investment Dar for a year and a half before his job was terminated this May when he took a week off to seek treatment in hospital.