Q: Can an employer keep you from getting your personal belongings from the office if you quit?
The company is just a small LLC with only a few employee. I was working for a friend who started a business... I worked basically full time for a year and was not compensated for my work and he kept asking me to work more, so I decided to step down... well, it was a fitness business and we built a private gym in a house and used it as our office. I was supposed to move in in July to manage stuff and had some of my belongings in there... now that I have quit, he has cut me off and no one is responding to me. Can they legally keep me from getting my belongings from the office?
A: You should contact an employment lawyer in your area to assist you with: 1) getting compensation owed to you for hours you worked over the previous year, and 2) getting possession of your personal belongings. If you performed work and were not paid for that work, you have a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state law for unpaid wages.
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