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Pekudei | 2 Adar II 5779 | 09/03/2019




P'ninat Mishpat: Complicated Employment Agreement – part II

The plaintiff (=pl), an acquaintance of the defendant (=def1), the manager and owner of a business (=def2), told her that he could improve her revenue collection. Pl sent def1 an email stating what he would charge her: 1000 GBP (British pounds) per month – 500 to be paid immediately and 500 when the business could “afford it.” Also, he would obtain a 15% share of def2, which she could buy back whenever she wanted for 10,000 GBP. Def1 did not respond to the email, and no contract was signed, but pl started working in Nov. 2014 and started receiving 500 GBP a month. In March 2015, def1 informed pl that she was discontinuing his work. Pl asked for the 10,000 GBP buyout, agreeing to payment in twelve 750 GBP installments (i.e., he forgave 1,000 GBP). After receiving one such payment, pl agreed to delay other payments due to def2’s cash flow problems, but as of January 2016, he is demanding the various back payments. Def1 raised a procedural issue about who the defendant is: she never intended to pay from her pocket, def2 never signed a document, and the payments were made by a front company created by def1’s husband. Def1 claims that she did not see pl as an employee to whom she owed money, and she began paying him only to avoid acrimony. She did not respond to the pay scale email because she did not understand it, and thus she did not accept its provisions. In any case, payment should be linked to benefit from pl’s services, which were never achieved; that which she already paid was more than enough for his efforts. The extra 500 GBP a month were anyway to be paid only when def2 was profitable, which it never became. Pl points out that in the meantime hundreds of thousands of GBP were paid to other workers.


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