Deel has lobbed a brand-new volley in the ongoing legal battle with competing HR tech start-up Rippling.
Deel filed a series of letters to the Irish court asking Rippling to hand over information.In one letter, Deel wants unredacted versions of witness affidavits, including the renowned one by former Rippling employee Keith OBrien.
In a story filled with plot twists that reads like a movie, OBrien admitted in an Irish court to being a spy for Deel, according to the affidavit launched by Rippling.Rippling submitted a lawsuit against Deel in March that declares misappropriation of trade tricks, tortious disturbance, unjust competitors, and more, mainly based on the spying allegations.Deel has since countersued, attempting to get Ripplings match dismissed on a series of problems like jurisdiction, but also making its own allegations about Rippling.
Deel declares, for example, that Rippling was also trying to spy on Deel.In the letters openly released Monday, Deel is pointing to an affidavit from Rippling worker Vanessa Wu, formerly Ripplings basic counsel.Much of the affidavit stated what Wu recalled of alleged spy-related happenings and her take on different letters sent out between the two sides lawyers.But Deel explains Wu also affirmed that Rippling fired OBrien and paid him a termination charge in exchange for him signing an agreement not to take legal action against.
Wu also testified, the affidavit said, that Rippling participated in a second arrangement with OBrien where Rippling agreed to contribute towards Mr.
OBriens costs of these procedures and to pay his sensible expense and legal costs in connection with the cooperation to be offered under that agreement.Should Rippling not comply with the demands in the letters, Deel desires the court to make Rippling turn over complete unredacted variations of both of those arrangements.
It wants to tell anybody who will listen how unusual it is that a worker fired for cause end up back on a companys payroll as a paid witness.Needless to state, both sides emphatically announce their own innocence while pointing a finger at the other.Well have to wait and see if and what the court rules on this, however if it does make more of OBriens statement and those termination contracts publicly available, well be reading.Correction: Deel did not file a formal movement at the same time it sent the letters however, a spokesperson verified to A Technology NewsRoom, it is intending on doing so.