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Two former employees of the Populist Reformation Party of the right of Nigel Farage have filed legal complaints against the organization in rank on the money they say that the party owes them.
The affairs were filed this month at the Northampton’s small complaints court by the former employees, who claim that they were summarily dismissed last year after the British general elections without payment for several months of work.
One said that it had been hired on a temporary contract as an activist as the July elections approached, when the reform won five seats in Parliament, and was dismissed in September without being paid £ 8,000 , it was due for three months of work, according to the documents seen by the Financial Times.
The second said he had worked for the party as a manager for almost three years before being dismissed in November without notice or nearly £ 9,600 of rear wages for the four months before his drop.
The reform said that the employees had “tried to bring legal complaints against the party according to what we have reasons to believe that these are fraudulent and forged” employment contracts “. The applicants rejected allegation as “totally undeveloped”.
After the elections, Farage revised the management of the reform, using a new chair, the technological entrepreneur Zia Yusuf and the elimination of former deputy chief Ben Habib and former managing director Paul Oakden.
The reform said that the new management team had launched an investigation into how the party had been previously directed. “Several employees under the old management have made their jobs fire [by the new leadership]”He said.
Habib said: “It is not acceptable how the new direction deals with the base of the reform.
“They are long on the criticisms and short of recognition of those who delivered the party to the post in which he is today,” he added.
Oakden did not respond to a request for comments.
The row underlines the challenges encountered by the Farage as it seeks to draw a line with its time as a chief of more amateur political outfits, in particular the Brexit Party and the British Independence Party.
Reform UK has skyrocketed in British opinion polls in recent months, and is now the most popular party with around 26% of public support, according to the Politico survey, with 25% work and the conservatives at 21 %. The local elections in May will test whether this survey will result in electoral success.
The reform is currently constituted as a business, unlike other British political parties, which are associations, but Farage is committed to obtaining the party to members and giving in its participation of more than 75% .
Members of the reform recently exceeded 200,000, according to its website, against 131,680 declared by the Conservatives in November of last year and around 370,000 for the Labor Party.
