I'm in Pennsylvania.
I recently terminated my employment with a company.
Soon after terminating my employment, I filed a claim with the Dept of Labor Law Compliance for illegal chargebacks. My claim is solid and the DOL is advising me to pursue it.
I recently recieved a letter from my former employer basically blackmailing me.
In this letter, he states that if he hears from the Dept of Labor again, he is going to sue for not honoring my noncompete.
Lemme give you an outline of this noncompete quick. I signed this noncompete about 2 years ago with this company. About a year later, the owner filed for bankruptcy and we merged our company with a diferent company from out of state. (we basically turned into a salellite company for this new company)
All the employees all signed a NEW contract with this NEW company.
The relationship lasted for about 6 months and the owner decided to break it off. He also told all of us that if we choose to come back to work for us, he isnt going to make us a sign a new noncompete and if we choose to go to work for a competing company, then fine...do so.
So, basically..the noncompete I signed was dissolved the second I became an employee of this new company. We UNmerged with them and never had to sign a new one.
Now, I have this guy coming after me, threatening lawsuits over the old noncompete....? As far as I know..that old noncompete isnt even VALID anymore.
AND...to make matters even funnier...He's claiming I "stole" company information from him.
He's making this claim because every week, along with our paychecks and paystubs...he issued all of a "commission sheet" which basically said who we sold to and for how much. These sheets were presented and became our personal property.
However, this guy is now claiming this is company property....?
The matter is clearly blackmail and baseless and i'm not totally sure of what I should do now....should I file suit for him blackmailing me?
What?
I recently terminated my employment with a company.
Soon after terminating my employment, I filed a claim with the Dept of Labor Law Compliance for illegal chargebacks. My claim is solid and the DOL is advising me to pursue it.
I recently recieved a letter from my former employer basically blackmailing me.
In this letter, he states that if he hears from the Dept of Labor again, he is going to sue for not honoring my noncompete.
Lemme give you an outline of this noncompete quick. I signed this noncompete about 2 years ago with this company. About a year later, the owner filed for bankruptcy and we merged our company with a diferent company from out of state. (we basically turned into a salellite company for this new company)
All the employees all signed a NEW contract with this NEW company.
The relationship lasted for about 6 months and the owner decided to break it off. He also told all of us that if we choose to come back to work for us, he isnt going to make us a sign a new noncompete and if we choose to go to work for a competing company, then fine...do so.
So, basically..the noncompete I signed was dissolved the second I became an employee of this new company. We UNmerged with them and never had to sign a new one.
Now, I have this guy coming after me, threatening lawsuits over the old noncompete....? As far as I know..that old noncompete isnt even VALID anymore.
AND...to make matters even funnier...He's claiming I "stole" company information from him.
He's making this claim because every week, along with our paychecks and paystubs...he issued all of a "commission sheet" which basically said who we sold to and for how much. These sheets were presented and became our personal property.
However, this guy is now claiming this is company property....?
The matter is clearly blackmail and baseless and i'm not totally sure of what I should do now....should I file suit for him blackmailing me?
What?