California Apartment Managers
What Are california apartment managers entitled to?
As a resident California Resident Apartment Manager, you are an employee and are entitled to be paid minimum wage even if your rent has been reduced due to your employment. For 2017, the minimum wage is $10.50 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees, and $10.00 per hour for employers with less than 26 employees, and it may be a higher rate depending on what city you live in.
As a California Resident Apartment Manager, if you work more than 40 hours per week or more than 8 hours per day or more than 6 days in a row as a resident apartment manager, you are entitled to overtime pay, which is one and a half times your hourly pay. For example, if your minimum wage is $10.00 per hour than your overtime pay will be $15.00 per hour. At times, depending on the number of hours you worked or days in a row you worked as a resident apartment manager, you may be entitled to double-time or, in our example, $20.00 per hour.
In addition, if your employer requires you live in the apartment building you manage as a resident apartment manager, the highest rent your employer is allowed to charge you is $564.81 for a single resident apartment manager and $835.49 for an employed couple (where both are resident apartment managers) in 2017, if the employer has less than 26 employees.
The minimum wage that you earn as a California Resident Apartment Manager might be subject to a deduction by your employer due to your reduced rent. However, your employer can only deduct the amount of the reduced rent if you as a resident apartment manager have signed a written agreement with the employer that meets legal requirements. If you do not have a written agreement as a resident apartment manager that is signed, then your employer cannot get this deduction.
The maximum deduction your employer can use in 2017, if there is a written signed agreement that meet legal requirements, and there are less than 26 employees, is $564.81 per month for a single resident apartment manager and $835.49 for an employed couple (where both are apartment resident managers).
Also, as an employee of your employer as a California Resident Apartment Manager, if you are required as a resident apartment manager to use your personal cell phone as part of your job, you are entitled, as a resident apartment manager, to a reasonable percentage of your cell phone bill.
Further, as an employee of your employer as a California Resident Apartment Manager, you are entitled to paid sick leave.
For more information concerning your rights and the minimum wage due to you as a California Resident Apartment Manager for an employer with less than 26 employees or an employer with more than 26 employees, please contact Freiman Legal at (310) 917-1004 for a free case evaluation.
