But the government has also been trying to reform work in the state sector, where ghost employees and absenteeism have been big issues.
An official report in 2011 found only half of all state employees were showing up at work.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Gulf state is taking several measures to reform its public sector working practicesKuwait is to prosecute 38 state employees for bunking off work and having their colleagues use silicone fingertips to fake their presence on a biometric attendance system.
In one case, an employee had been receiving a salary despite not showing up for work for more than 10 years.
The Kuwaiti government employs about a fifth of the working population in the Gulf state and a vast majority of Kuwaitis prefer to work for the state, rather than in the private sector, which is manned mainly by non-Kuwaitis.
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