I hired a subcontractor to work for me as an employee. They worked on 5 projects. We never had an agreement on work or price of any projects. The intention was to bring them in as a full partner and absorb the assets of their business as their equity injection. They backed out, now he wants to try to go back and bill me as a subcontractor for work performed while he was a salaried employee and is contacting customers and threatening them with liens. He did complete 1 project after his employment ended, which I paid all the costs for except for his personal labor. There was no contract and no agreed upon price. Now he has created an invoice for the work done after his employment ended and also including work done while he was employed. He does not have a written contract with me or the homeowner. I have paid out over $16k already and he put concrete for a driveway he poured for the homeowner (went around me) on my concrete account ($5k worth of concrete billed to me for a project that was not mine). I agree I still owe him about $1k (after the 5k I paid on my account for his project is accounted for). Is he in a position to file a lien for anything more than the $1k I agree I owe him (he would be getting paid about $6k for less than a weeks worth of work, for his own individual labor as I paid everyone else directly or have already paid him for the workers he used on the project and paid directly). Can he file a lien for work he completed as an employee and was paid salary for?