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No nightshift ban for Kuwaiti women Published Date: September 08, 2009 KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has asserted that there are no legal restrictions preventing female employees from working night shifts in ministries and other governmental departments. The CSC made its announcement in a recent statement sent to Al-Qabas daily in response to an article which criticized compelling female employees to use the fingerprint system, stating that at the same time as doing so the CSC had banned them from working night shifts. The CSC said that the several government bodies had worked closely with it to split staff members' seven-hour shifts between day and night hours, adding that the fingerprint attendance record system was installed to ensure employees' presence at their workplace during their working hours. In its response, the commission added that there had been no laws introduced that could ban female citizens from working night shifts. The CSC went on to say that reports of some employees with unrecognized university degrees being promoted were entirely false, pointing out that every staff member who is approved and/or promoted has to provide a copy of their university degree which has been approved by the Ministry of Higher Education, which is responsible for verifying degrees according to whether they have been issued by recognized or unaccredited universities. The CSC's statement also included a response to a complaint about a Kuwaiti ministry employee who was reinstated to his post after previously being dismissed following his imprisonment over a drug-related criminal case, reported Al-Qabas. The CSC said that employees in such cases are temporarily suspended until they provided a rehabilitation report following their release, at which point they can be reinstated.
