Companies house question - company who employs me part time says it was 1 employee on CH!?

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And the owner (who I don’t really like or trust) has submitted his last 2 years of accounts suddenly, both saying 1 employee.
I know of at least 6 of us across a few different sites (it’s coffee shops), is this dodgy?
also he seemed to have changed accountants and then submitted the accounts. I wonder what went wrong with the last one that meant he didn’t submit anything for 2 years.

Anyone got some ideas?

Is this within the balance sheet area of the report, i.e. a description of an amount like a salary? Would its corresponding most recent figure also suggest that it's one salary or more part-time salaries?
If it's on the menu summary online where you click to see the people listed/involved in the company whose number you are seeing, this doesn't get done automatically when account documents are filed - you have to log in to that particular page in order to make changes to it (it's usually whoever has the CH login, and this probably won't be an accountant or auditor who works on a file of figures, at arm's length from the company's info record). Therefore the info can be out of date until the person with the login makes the changes.
You can file late, but they do chase you, and the note on how late you filed will show against the record in the public domain as long as that year is retrievable. A change of accountant can have a lot of reasons - even having to find any one that can do a job asap due to the lateness - and does not have to signify anything strange.

This is how it is calculated: www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/technical-activities/uk-tech/in-practice/2023/march/disclosing-employee-numbers-what-you-need-to-know.html

Even if the disclosure note in the accounts is wrong it won't have any bearing on whether the correct payroll taxes are being paid, if that's what you're worried about.

It just sounds like he was behind on the filing obligations for whatever reason and has brought matters up to date.

If your working relationship has broken down to the extent you're going through these processes, I'd put my energy into looking for another job instead.