Q: My question is this.... I clean houses for a living and I've been cleaning my landlady's house for the past year every
two weeks with no problem with the payment. In may I have the landlord issue and she offers to let me and my fiance stay in her rental / Garage. In exchange for rent my fiance will be helping her husband with their other rental renovating it Etc and also around the house because they're getting older and need help. So after about 2 months my landlady gives us a 30 day notice and decides if she's not paying me for my cleaning and my help at the rental. Is it legal to withhold wages like that. My part was not in the agreement for rent and now she saying that it is she's changed the terms of our tendency / employment. Does she owe me unpaid wages thank you
A: Potentially you are owed back wages and penalties. A close examination though of the agreements is needed to figure out the amounts, as it is unclear if your work and tenancy were connected and thus she could withhold as part of the rent.
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