(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT, May 16 (KUNA) -- The National Assembly on Wednesday approved the early retirement bill, including the new rules for pension age, and strongly denounced the crimes being committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people.
The new law, an amendment to the social insurance bill, was passed in its second reading by 43 MPs during a regular parliament session; it entitles employees to benefit pension if they complete 30 years in service for men or 25 years for women regardless of their real age.
If an employee chooses to retire, they are entitled to a payment equivalent to the salary of at most five years excluding those who are forced to retire under the civil service law; a five percent of the payment will be deducted.
Regarding the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, the MPs denounced the suffering of the Palestinian people over the last seven decades.
They said, in a statement read by Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim, the ordeal of the Palestinian people is the biggest humanitarian disaster.
"The criminal Zionist gangsters are committing atrocities against the defenseless Palestinians, including forced evictions of the Palestinians from their homes and villages," according to the statement.
On the decision, made by President Donald Trump in last December to relocate the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the MPs said it is a unilateral move that ran counter to the principles of the international law and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
They reaffirmed support to the clear-cut foreign policy of the State of Kuwait under His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the active diplomacy at the UN Security Council in support of Palestine question.
On his part, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah made a statement to the session where he voiced confidence in the consensus between the MPs and cabinet members on the main issues of public concern.
Responding to a message by MPs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the recent illegal behavior of the Philippines Embassy staffers, he said the Ministry is ready to share information with MPs on the details of the incident. (pickup previous) nsh.sd.gb
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