Foree Employees Are Unpaid for Over a Year

Foree, the company behind the online payments, P2P transfer, and bill payments app, has been failing to pay its employees for over a year. Former employees are still struggling to receive their pending salaries.

The issue came to light once Aasma Jabin, a former employee at Foree, shared the details on Linkedin recently. The ex-employee joined Foree over a year ago and worked there for 8 months. Jabin left the company amid administrative issues which caused delayed salary payments for several employees.

She claims that more than 70% of employees left the company during this time and she has been waiting on her dues for over a year. Jabin has been looking into legal options to get clearance as well. You can read her full post below.

Foree’s HR department officially responded to her Linkedin post, saying that they had managed to pay a majority of their employees and are working on the rest. However, it remains to be seen if anything comes out of it.

Here is the official response:

Aasma Jabin Being an HR of Foree, it is my responsibility to clear out a few things. Foree has been clearing out dues in a phased manner. We have cleared out the majority but for severance benefits of the last set of employees. Please call us at work and shall advise resolution of any of your outstanding.

It is worth mentioning that despite administrative issues and salary payment hurdles, Foree is still looking for new hires with more than 20 open positions at the company.

Here’s what Foree had to say about this:

In the wake of delay in commercial operation, mounting expenses and poor management performance, Invency private ltd; the sponsoring entity of Foree removed the founders cum management team and assumed direct management control in September 2021. The new management has since retained its workforce, stabilized operation as well as discharged major portion of liabilities left unsettled by the outgoing management and is on track to settle all liabilities accumulated by the previous management by end June 2022. The company remains especially committed and has conveyed its intent to settle ex employees dues including severance benefits within June 2022. The ex employee who chose to raise the issue on social media has been in contact and was advised a settlement schedule. To say that employees are not paid is factually incorrect.