I worked for a company last year and by the second week it was apparent that the role was not as described. On the Monday morning of the second week I flagged this with both partners via email unfortunately using the email that they had provided so I have no record of this. On the Wednesday they were really annoyed with me and decided to terminate the contract which was absolutely fine my contract of employment stated that I was to be paid £1000 signing on bonus with no conditions attached to that. I was also I would obviously the week and a half of salary plus actually a weeks notice.
anyway I’ve taken them to the small claims court for this money and they have counterclaim that trying to claim against me for some software they claimed that they bought solely for the purpose of my employment which is absolute bollocks it’s Linkedin if anybody knows that they would’ve simply transferred that license to somebody else but as a PAYE employee I cannot imagine for a moment and I have any liability surrounding that ?
this is gone back-and-forth for nearly a year and I’ve now been told that it’s been listed for a hearing I am required to pay an extra £181. And if I don’t my claim will be stroked out and I will be liable for their costs.
On the basis that I don’t actually expect to ever see a penny of this. does anybody have any advice I was at the point where if it hadn’t been listed for a Haring pretty quickly I was just gonna go straight for a statutory demand does anybody know if I can do that as well as the hearing ?