DIFC 107/2022

This case involved termination payments and penalties due to an individual who claimed that during recruitment interviews for a fintech business it had been misrepresented that he was to be employed by one entity only to later receive a contract which stated he was employed by another entity. Both entities had shared ownership and operated from the same offices. Salary payments had not come from the company he believed to be his employer. Key points were that he had continued to work after he had discovered the contract was not with the entity he believed was his employer and at that time he had accepted verbal assurances that this did not matter without also getting any written documentation confirming the position.

Background

The Claimant was Madesh an individual filing a claim on his employment at the Defendant company.

The Defendant was Mahura a company registered in the DIFC located in DIFC, Dubai, UAE.

The underlying dispute arose over the employment of the Claimant by Milinas pursuant to an Employment Contract dated 15 April 2021.