UK’s former reform staff issued unpaid wages

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Two former employees of the right -wing Popular Reform Party in Nigel Farraj in the United Kingdom submitted legal complaints against the organization, respectively, on money saying that the party owes them.

The cases were submitted this month in the Small Claims Court in Northhampton by former employees, who claim that they were briefly rejected last year after the general elections in the United Kingdom without paying for several months of work.

One of them claimed that she was appointed to a temporary contract as a campaign in the period leading up to the July elections, when the reform won five seats in Parliament, and it was separated in September without paying 8,000 pounds that were due for three months of work, to the documents that financial times see.

The second claimed that he worked in the party as a manager for about three years before his dismissal in November without notice or nearly 9,600 pounds in the back wage for the four months before leaving it.

Al -Islah said that the employees “tried to file legal claims against the party based on what we have a reason for the belief that they are fraudulent and provided” employment contracts. “The prosecutors denied this allegation that he was” baseless from work. “

After the elections, Farage reformed the reform administration, brought a new chair, technology businessman Diaa Youssef, and removing former Vice leader Ben Habib and former CEO Paul Akdin.

Al -Islah said that the new administration team had launched an investigation on how to manage the party previously. “Many employees have been terminated under old management (through the new leadership),” he said.

Habib said, “It is not acceptable for the new administration to be treated at the level of the popular base for reform,” Habib said.

He added: “They are long in criticism and short recognition of those who handed over the party to the position it faces today.”

Oc deal did not respond to a request for comment.

The class emphasizes the challenges facing Farage as it seeks to draw a line with his time as a leader of more amateur political clothes, including the Brexit party and the UK’s Independence Party.

Reform UK has increased in British opinion polls in recent months, and is now the most popular party with about 26 percent of public support, according to a politico poll, with the Labor Party by 25 percent and the Conservative Party by 21 percent. Local elections will be tested in May whether this poll will be translated into electoral success.

Reform is currently consisting as a company, unlike other political parties in the United Kingdom, which are associations, but Farage has pledged to hand over the party’s ownership to members and strip its share of more than 75 percent.

Reform membership recently exceeded 200,000, according to its website, compared to 131,680 announced by the conservatives in November last year and about 370,000 for the Labor Party.