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CYC26
Mar 10, 2011, 09:13 PM
Im a live in caregiver in exchange for room and board. Im being asked to move out in two weeks because of I'm not doing what was asked. The real problem is a personal issue. I don't get any income and have done what was asked. A written agreement was never signed by anyone. I don't get any days off and have to be here 24 hours unless I have class and during the 1 time a week I visit my son. What are my rights? Do I have to leave in two weeks?

Fr_Chuck
Mar 10, 2011, 09:17 PM
This is a harder issue, since your work is tied to your living condition.

Is there any written agreement, they could have course argue you are renting in a week to week status, not month to month.

At the longest you would have 4 weeks ( one month) but if you are not working, you would have to pay the rental price of the value of this room and board.

CYC26
Mar 10, 2011, 09:36 PM
Please read attachments this is all I have nothing that I ever signed.

CYC26
Mar 10, 2011, 09:45 PM
Sorry unable to upload what I do have but no I never signed a agreement it was not wrriten up till over a month after I had already started. Then I was sent one by e-mail. I am still doing the job now and plan to till I move out. But like I said I do not get any income so I have no money to move and rent someplace else. I can't just move with no place to go

AK lawyer
Mar 10, 2011, 10:13 PM
sorry unable to upload what i do have but no i never signed a agreement it was not wrriten up till over a month after i had already started. Then I was sent one by e-mail. ...

It would probably constitute a written agreement, but the problem is, I expect, that it may not constitute a binding employment contract. That is to say, a contract that would change the presumption that employment is employment-at-will. In the absence of contractual language to the contrary, an employer may choose to terminate an employee at will, and doesn't need a good reason to do so.

Unless it says something different, I believer you are probably a month-to-month tenant, and therefore in most places, they have to give you a 30-day notice to quit.