Hiring on-site managers can save time and improve operations, but it also creates unique legal risks in California. When you provide housing, you take on dual roles as both employer and landlord, which comes with strict wage-and-hour, landlord-tenant, and misclassification rules.

Learn how to stay compliant, avoid costly penalties, and protect your rental business.

DISCUSSION TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Know the rules and avoid legal exposure when hiring an on-site manager or any other employees.
• How hiring an independent contractor handyman or tradesman can be your worst nightmare – how to protect yourself from legal exposure – Learn the “A-B-C” test! Also, the “Borello” test.
• The most expensive types of legal exposure and where those risks originate from: (i) Wage & Hour claims; (ii) Misclassification of Employees; (iii) Fair Employment Housing Act; and more!
• Understanding the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) and its impact on employers.
• Common allegations that are made in PAGA and other employment-related lawsuits.
• Meal and required rest breaks, and of course, the minimum wage laws and overtime. Know the difference: “Exempt” vs. “Non-Exempt” employees.

GUEST SPEAKER: Luiza Manuelian, Partner, LAndegger & Verano

Luiza Manuelian is an Employment Lawyer based in Encino, San Fernando Valley, serving employers in the greater Los Angeles area and all throughout California. Luiza represents employers in various employment-related matters including claims for civil rights violations, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, defamation, and unfair business practices. She also represents employers in class and representative action wage & hour disputes and claims brought under the California Private Attorney General’s Act (PAGA). She represents employers before government agencies such as the DFEH and EEOC. She also provides clients with general labor advice and counsels clients to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.

Luiza also trains employers on Sexual Harassment, Wage & Hour Compliance, and Violence Prevention in the Workplace, amongst others. She does presentations through various State Bar affiliations, including the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.

Prior to joining Landegger & Verano, Luiza was a Supervising Partner and Chair of Toxic Tort Division at a Los Angeles law firm and has extensive trial experience in product liability toxic tort as well as civil rights violation cases and has tried cases in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland. Luiza graduated from Southwestern University School of Law and was in the Moot Court Program where she was a finalist at the National American Bar Association in New Orleans.

Luiza received her J.D. from Southwestern Law School in 2004, where she served as a judicial extern for the Court of Appeals, Limited Jurisdiction, of the Central District of California. Prior to entering law school, Luiza worked at law firms since she was 15 years old. She received her B.A. from the California State University, Northridge in Psychology in 2000, where she was published for her research on gender studies.