In addition to being entitled to minimum wage (currently $15.50 an hour for employers of 25 or fewer employees, as most apartment owners are) for every hour you worked, for every such hour we can demonstrate you were not paid those wages as required by law, you are entitled to recover what is known as “liquidated damages.”
That means that for every dollar that an employee is able to demonstrate was illegally withheld from them, and should have been paid to them as wages, that resident apartment manager employee is entitled to another dollar because of the failure of their employer to pay them properly. The right to wages and liquidated damages goes back three years,with the right to go back a fourth year for wages only, without the additional liquidated damages.