Successfully defended a client in a precedent-setting dispute with an employee

Our practice represented in court a major producer of confectionery products in a complicated lawsuit with an employee. After his dismissal, a highly paid employee filed a claim against the company that a regional coefficient be applied to payments he had received for 7.5 years of work and to interest for the delay in payment, for a total amount of more than RUB 4 million. The company was located in St Petersburg and had not specifically mentioned the regional coefficient in the employment agreement, even though in fact it was applying it.
In order to have the limitation period reinstated, the employee deleted his corporate emails before the dismissal so that they could not be restored and alleged that he had not been receiving the payment slips throughout the entire time of his work in the company.

Our lawyers offered the client a strategy for objecting to the claimant’s arguments and prepared objections to the claim. As a result, the first instance court took into account and included in its judgment all our arguments and dismissed the employee's claims in their entirety.