Overtime law for on emergency on call

[Zacharydy4]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas

I recently quit working for an apartment management company for various reasons, one of which is the insistance of responding to after hours emergency calls with no compensation. For instance if a resident had a window broken I would respond to the call and go to the property to board the window up.

Is this a legal practice? They required me to provide my personal number to residents and use my personal phone for business with no compensation, nor was any provided for time spent on the property after business hours. Can I go after them for back pay?

 

[cbg]

Were you exempt or non-exempt?

 

[Zacharydy4]

Non Exempt as far as I know, nothing I've found in my research would suggest otherwise. I was paid 15/hr for property maintenance

 

[cbg]

Then while it is legal to require you to respond to emergency calls, you must be paid for the time.

 

[eerelations]

Then your recourse is to file an unpaid wage claim with either your state or federal DOL.

 

[Zacharydy4]

Thank you, I'll be persuing this matter further