# FPI Management Rent Credit Lawsuit | Unpaid Wages California > FPI Management employees: Improper rent credits or paystub errors? Our California lawyers fight for unpaid wages and penalties. Get your settlement. Source: https://worklawyerca.com/fpi-employee-rent-credit/ Firm: Employment Lawyers Group — employee-side employment lawyers since 1993. Serving Los Angeles County, California. Phone: (818) 783-7300 (calling is the fastest way to reach the legal team) Office: 13418 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Contact form: https://worklawyerca.com/contact/ Consultations are free and confidential; cases are taken on contingency. --- The Employment Lawyers Group law firm, run by Karl Gerber who has represented California since 1993, has filed a lawsuit against FPI Management. The Los Angeles County filed lawsuit alleges FPI Management required their employees to live on premises, and enter into rent credit agreements. The rent credit agreements assign values to apartments in excess of that which allowed under California Wage Order 5. In other words, FPI Management is taking a greater rent credit towards their employees’ wages than allowed under California law. The employees in the putative class action against FPI Management include all California employees who worked for Defendant FPI Management within the State of California from January 2, 2014 to present and who were required to live on-site at a property managed by Defendant FPI Management and who received a rent credit in excess of the maximum allowed under the Industrial Welfare Commission’s Wage Order 5. These employees include property managers, maintenance employees, and any other employees whose wages were reduced by rent credits in excess of the limitations in Wage Order 5. While Wage Order 5 allows rent credits of approximately $600 a month for single employee residents, the employee who filed the lawsuit was credited more than $2,000 for his apartment. Instead of receiving more than $2,000 in wages he was provided with an apartment he was forced to live in, and not paid more than $1,500 a month in wages he worked for. While FPI Management could have credited the employee’s wages less than $600 a month they credited his wages more than $2,000 a month. Apartment managers and maintenance workers of FPI will be class members in this lawsuit if the court certifies it as a class action. Class action treatment for the lawsuit appears appropriate because the same rent credit agreement was used for approximately 500 employees, and a rent credit for more than allowed by California law was taken. Employees in the putative FPI Management class action for improper rent credits may be able to obtain the amounts of rent improperly taken from their wages. They may also be able to obtain interest on these improper rent deductions. Several additional penalties may also be obtained including $100 per paycheck that improperly reports rent credits, and 30 days of wages if the employee is no longer employed by FPI Management. Several legal theories have been alleged in the FPI Management lawsuit. These different legal theories allow employees to go back differing amounts of time. For the rent credits the lawsuit seeks to go back three to four years from January 2, 2018. If the Labor Workforce Development Agency does not investigate this issue, the putative class action against FPI Management will be amended to ask for Private Attorney General Penalties which class members may be able to share in. The Employment Lawyers Group is eagerly awaiting to review all FPI Management rent credit agreements. **Employees who have any questions about rent credits, or the putative class action against FPI Management *should call the Employment Lawyers Group at (818) 783-7300*** ## Employee Rent Credits Wage Order 5 places maximum amounts an employer can credit towards wages they owe employees required to live on their premises, and employees not required to live on premises to the extent the rent credit is credited towards minimum wage. For instance, highly paid residential managers earning $5,000 a month cannot have more than $621.29 charged as a rent credit if they manage an upscale 100 unit building managed by an employer with 500 employees. In the case of minimum wage, an employee required to work 20 hours a week on premises cannot be paid nothing for those hours because they receive a $1200.00 a month apartment. That employee would be entitled to at least minimum wage for each hour worked offset by $621.29-$593.05 a month if they were single. In 2017 employers who required their employees to live on their premises were prohibited from giving rent credits, against wages, in excess of $595.05 a month or $564.81 depending on how many employees the employer had if the employee was not a couple. Couples could not be charged more than $877.27 or $835.49 a month. In 2018 employers who required their employees to live on their premises could not charge single employees more than $621.29-$593.05 a month for rent. Couples cannot be charged more than $919.04-$877.26. The amount employers can charge their employees to live on premises is based upon the number of employees the employer has with 25 or fewer employees subjecting the employer to the smaller figures and employers with 26 or more employees being able to take the larger credit. If the employee is not required to live on the premises, the employer’s rent credits can only be credited against minimum wage for the amounts listed above. All of the above credits cannot equal more than 2/3 the reasonable rental value of an apartment. For instance, if the apartment is only worth $1,200 a month the employer cannot receive $792.00 in wage credits from the employee even if it is a couple who could otherwise be charged up to $919.04 a month. ## FPI Management Paychecks Report Inconsistent Overtime Rates FPI Management’s paystubs may have reported strange overtime rates for numerous employees. The Employment Lawyers Group has paystubs from one FPI Management employee who is reported to have approximately 16 different overtime rates none of which make any sense, or correspond to his hourly rate. A failure to properly report rates of pay on paystubs lead to fines of $100.00 per paystub. The statute of limitations for this theory may only be one year so employees facing paystub errors should take legal action immediately. The Employment Lawyers Group is presently investigating just how many employees received paystubs from FPI Management with erroneous rates of pay. A putative class action has been filed against FPI Management alleging they provided employees paystubs with erroneous rates of overtime pay that did not correspond with their rates of pay. California Labor Code Section 226 requires employers to provide all rates of pay for employees. This means their correct hourly rate must be included on the paystub. It also means the correct overtime and double time rates must be on paystubs. If a rate of pay has been changed due to a rent credit or piece rate work the rate of pay must reflect those unusual circumstances. Paystubs cannot report an amount for a rent credit in excess of Wage Order 5’s limitations discussed earlier in this article. 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