Officials at Watford Employment Tribunal confirmed to the Enquirer that the case is on their books with a hearing due to start later this year.
Brian Wakefield was a director of P C Harrington Contractors from August 2012 until March 2015 and had worked there since 2005.
P C Harrington Contractors collapsed last May owing unsecured creditors £28m when KPMG were appointed administrators.
Wakefield declined to comment about the nature of the case.