Representation of Employer's Interests in Dispute with a Litigious Job Applicant.

A job applicant demanded reasons for being denied employment. Our client, a large company providing hundreds of jobs, issued a refusal within the prescribed period via mail. A month later, the applicant again approached the company demanding the real reasons for the employment denial, alleging that the refusal was actually due to the absence of a labor book (employment record), attached a template for writing such a refusal, and threatened to lodge complaints. The company received the same response as before.

The applicant filed a complaint with the labor inspection and the court. In court, he demanded: (1) to oblige the company to provide a written refusal of employment, establish the reasons for the refusal, and award moral damages for 100,000 rubles, and (2) to declare the refusal of employment illegal, to compel the signing of an employment contract, and to award moral damages of 100,000 rubles.

We drafted and sent objections to the complaints to the labor inspection, and presented detailed positions on the claims, including an assessment of the audio and video recordings of the interview secretly conducted by the applicant. Furthermore, we discovered through open sources that the applicant had operated using a practiced scheme, with several similar companies falling victim to his behavior.

The company contacted other organizations against which the applicant had filed similar legal claims. As a result of the communication between our company and the lawyers of other affected companies, we were able to supplement the evidentiary base to defend our interests in court. The court supported our position.