Do i have to pay to take previous employer to a tribunal for non payment of wages?
See if you can contact the previous employee and any others who have held the position, if your predecessor has been paid it makes your case stronger. Next step small claims court, you will have to pay to open proceedings but will be reimbursed. Once you have started the company should pay up, but do not settle for only unpaid wages, if you have paid the filing fee add that also any travel expenses and loss of earnings if you have to go to court. This situation is becoming all to common in the UK. The heads of some companies believe themselves to be gods!