Dear member,
Your post is short and does not have even a nominal information. Please confirm the following:
a) What was the designation of the separated employee? In what department did the employee work? For how many months or years did the employee work in the previous company? Did the work involve the protection of data or managing the finances?
b) When did the employee leave the company and after how many months or weeks did he or she join the new company?
c) Before sending the legal notice, the employer must have done some correspondence with the separated employee. What type of correspondence was that and what action did the employee take? Did the previous employer ask the employee to face the enquiry? If yes, then why the enquiry was ordered?
d) Did the employer force the employee to sign a non-compete agreement? If yes, then was it signed on a plain paper or a stamp paper? Did the employer discover that the separated employee will join their competitors?
e) Why did the employer send the legal notice? Have they discovered any fraud, embezzlement or misappropriation of funds by the employee?
f) Additional details if any.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar