I was emailed today and made aware by a company I work for (contractor not employee) that I had personally been included in a discrimination lawsuit against them.
They had retained a solicitor and the email was letting me know vaguely about the lawsuit and that I needed to sign the attached document to agree to hiring the solicitor that will represent us.
This is the first I had heard of any lawsuit and the email claimed they had been dealing with this since February and I needed to sign within 24 hours. It's Easter weekend and I'm lucky I even checked my email on a Saturday. They signed off with sorry if this seems out of left field we should have looped you in sooner but please sign the attached within 24 hours.
The lawsuit is against the company, the two owners individually and me. It's a very small company and I assist on a part-time freelance basis. The client that is suing I've had no communications with whatsoever, I'm guessing they found my name online somewhere associated with the company and that's why I'm included.
AIBU to be upset that I wasn't told about this sooner and there should have been more information given?