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Two former employees of the right -wing populist reform Nigel Farage filed legal appeals against the organization in a row because of the money they say to their party owes them.
Cases have filed in court for small requirements in Northampton this month, former employees, who claim that they were discarded last year last year after the general elections in the UK without paying several months of work.
One claimed that she was engaged in a temporary contract as a campaign in the appearance in the elections in July, when the reform won five places in parliament, and was discharged in September without paid £ 8,000, owed to her three months of work, citing documents seen by the Financial Times .
Another claimed that he worked for the party as a manager for almost three years before he was fired in November without an announcement or almost £ 9,600 for a return salary for four months before being released.
Reform said that employees “tried to submit legal demands against the party based on what we have for reason to believe that they are false and forged” employment contracts “. The applicants denied the allegation as” fully unfounded “.
Following the election, Farage processed the management of reforms, bringing a new chairman, technology entrepreneur Zia Yusuf and removing former deputy leader Ben Habib and former executive director Paul Oakden.
The reform said the new managerial team launched an investigation into how the party had been run earlier. “Several employees under old administration have abolished their employment [by the new leadership]”It was said.
Habib said: “It is not an acceptable way that new management treats wide reforms.
“They have long been criticized and brief recognition of those who have handed over the party to the position where it is today,” he added.
Oakden did not answer the commentary request.
The order emphasizes the challenges that Farage faces because he tries to draw a line with his time as a leader of more amateur political outfit, including the Brexit party and the British Independence Party.
The UK reform has increased at the British polling stations of public opinion in recent months, and now is the most popular party with about 26 percent of public support, according to a political poll survey, with 25 percent and Tori in 21 percent. Local choices in May will test if this survey will turn into electoral success.
The reform was currently established as a company, unlike other British political parties, which are associations, but Farage has committed to surrendering the ownership of the party to the members and seized its share of more than 75 percent.
Reform membership recently surpassed 200,000, according to his website, compared to 131,680 declared conservatives in November last year and about 370,000 for the Labor Party.
