QFC 0009/2024, [2024] QIC (F) 17

Reham Hosni El Tanany v Crown Accounting and Technology LLC

This case involved an employee who had not been paid their wages and whose employer had original claimed to the ESO this was because they could not afford to but later at trial claimed wages had been withheld because of performance issues.

Background

The Claimant, Reham Hosni El-Tanany, was an Egyptian national who was resident in the State of Qatar. The Defendant, Crown Accounting and Technology LLC (previously known as Crown Accounting and Taxation LLC), was an entity established in the QFC. This Court had jurisdiction to determine the dispute between the parties by virtue of Article 9.1.3 of the Court’s Regulations and Procedural Rules, as it arose from an agreement between an entity established in the QFC and one of its former employees. Because of the sum and the nature of the issues involved, the claim was allocated by the Registrar to the Small Claims Track of this Court under Practice Direction No.1/2022.