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Two former employees of the right populist reform of the UK party of Nigel Farages have submitted legal complaints against the organization as a result of money that the party owes them.
The cases were submitted by the former employees this month before the Small Claimes Court in Northampton, who claimed that they were rejected for several months after the general elections in Great Britain without payment last year.
One claimed that she had been hired a temporary contract as an activist in the run -up to the elections in July on documents of the financial times.
The second claimed that he worked as a manager for the party for almost three years before he was released in November without notice or almost 9,600 pounds for the four months before his release.
The reform said that the employees had “tried to raise legal claims against the party on the basis of what we believe to raise fraudulent and forged” employment contracts “. The applicants denied the claim as” completely unfounded “.
After the election, Farage overtaken reform management, brought a new chairman, the Tech entrepreneur Zia Yusuf, and removed the former deputy leader Ben Habib and former managing director Paul Oakden.
Reform said that the new management team had initiated an investigation of how the party had previously been carried out. “Several employees in the context of the old management had their employment (through the new leadership) ended,” it said.
Habib said: “It is not acceptable how the new management treats the basis of the reform.
“You are long of criticism and shorter than the recognition of those who put the party in the position in which it is today,” he added.
Oakden did not answer a request for comment.
The series underlines the challenges that Farage faces when he tries to draw a line with his time as the leader of political amateur outfits, including the Brexit Party and the British independence party.
Reform UK has increased in British opinion polls in the past few months and is now the most popular party with around 26 percent of public support. According to Politico’s surveys on surveys of 25 percent and the Tories of 21 percent. The local elections in May will test whether these surveys lead to election success.
In contrast to other British political parties that are associations, a reform is currently presented as a company, but Farage has undertaken to hand over the party to the members and sell its share of more than 75 percent.
According to its website, membership of the reform recently exceeded 200,000 compared to 131,680 from the conservatives in November last year and around 370,000 for the Labor Party.
