Can employer hire if I was laid off due to no money?

Folks,

Hope its the correct forum!

You might be able to give me some heads up on this.

Worked for a company for 3.5 year.

A year ago money started drying up so he went looking for funding and trying to get sales. Looked good for the propects of both and few deals looked like coming in so I waited.
The backlog built up to the state that I was owed a lot of euro, I had to make a decision to get a few days work else where so I got 2 days somewhere else and 2 days with the other place to keep things ticking over.

This went on for about 8 weeks where the money was meant to be paid up and paid up, in the end I asked to be laid off so that I could claim my dole for the other days, he agreed and signed it "temporary lay off due to lack of orders"

Anyway, I managed to get work on the other 3 days so I am working 5 days.

The money hasn't been paid, total 14k euro owed.

He emailed asking me to come back, I said I couldn't as I hadn't been paid and didn't want to increase the amount I was owed. He said he needed someone to do the work, I said sound pay me my money and I will go back.
He didnt' and hasn't.

I now discover that he has hired someone else in my job. He still owes me and 3 more employees salaries for the last 5 months, has paid none of us, but has now hired someone in my place when I am still owed.

This sounds awful suss, what do you think.

Have you ever put anything in writing to your employer, regarding this issue, as from what I see it 'sounds suss' a long way back.

Is there a reason why you left it go to this stage where you are owed €14k.

In other words have you taken a more professional approach with your employer, rather than word of mouth talk.

Pope John 11 said:

Have you ever put anything in writing to your employer, regarding this issue, as from what I see it 'sounds suss' a long way back.

Is there a reason why you left it go to this stage where you are owed €14k.

In other words have you taken a more professional approach with your employer, rather than word of mouth talk.

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Hello,
Yes I have kept a full email trail from asking when we were going to be paid to all the emails from him with regards how the funding was going, why it was been held up and also the deals which they have now lost.
The reason they lost the deals was that the companies who were buying did audit checks on the accounts of the company, they found results they were not happy with.

2 weeks after I was laid off he emailed me telling me funding was got, could I come back and work for him.
I told him no, that I was not happy to work for him until the backlog was paid up and I didn't want to add to the 14k euro I was owed.
I told him also that I could get 5 days paid work for a number of week, this wasn't a lie.

That email about the "funding" was 6 weeks ago, so again he hadn't the funding place at all, if I had gone back I would have added another 4 weeks of money to the backlog. So you can see what I didn't go back.


Why is the figure so big, well i put my trust in him, the sales looked very very positive, the demos which I was part of went well and the customers looked 99% sure they would have bought. It would have cleared my debt easily. This didn't happen.

You need to speak to a solicitor about reclaiming your losses .....


http://www.flac.ie

This maybe a start ..