Employee Settlement Dispute: How Should We Handle Claims After a Final Settlement?

Employee Settlement Dispute

Employee completed the Full and Final (FNF) settlement in front of the Accounts and Legal (ACL) department two years ago. Now, he is claiming that he settled for a lower amount and that he should receive more based on certain rules he recently learned about. Additionally, he asserts that Provident Fund (PF) contributions were not provided to him for certain periods during which he was employed. These discrepancies were supposedly resolved and settled in full at the ACL office.

What decisions should the firm make at this point?

I wish you had provided sufficient information. If the FnF has been completed and that too under the aegis of ACL, then why has the ex-employee approached your company once again? Have you analyzed the validity of his claim? Are the claims tenable?

If the claims are not tenable, then you may give him a point-by-point reply. Send the letter by Speed Post and preserve the correspondence along with the Speed Post receipts carefully.

Thanks,

Dinesh Divekar