Hopefully someone can help. I am just so very fed up of it all.
I and quite a few others have taken our old bosses to court for non payment of wages with ACAS help. Our bosses had opened a business and did a huge fraud (pheonix type thing). HMRC and CID are involved. We won the court case but the sherrif officers couldn't , surprisingly, find them to reclaim the money even though one has just been in court on another matter three times so far.
We have now been told to take it to small claims and then it will get refunded by a government N.I compensation scheme ( Which I can't find any information for).
Is this correct and how do I go about taking it to the small claims court? I have been representing all of us a group claim and quite frankly, I'm tired, stressed and in a muddle now.
We were paid in cash weekly. We were told that the NI and tax were taken out, which tallyed with the hours and pay we were given. We never got payslips, we rang the accountant but there was never any reply.
After checking with HMRC they had never paid it, just skimmed it off for themselves. So, will this screw us up for any claims as we now have gaps in our tax/ N.I records?
Also posted in legal.