Can management company restrict my guests as employee who lives on property

I currently live on property where I work. I have just received a mandate that I am not allowed to have an exemployee as my guest at my apartment or be fired. I do not believe this is just/fair. I am a renter also so why would they restrict my guests as a condition of my employment?

That's absurd. Are you living there rent-free? Not that it matters, but I'm curious the overall arrangement.

No. I do not live rent free. I do get a discount for being an employee but I am a paying tenant.

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like a wrongful termination case in the making. Of course, I suppose that depends if you work in an at-will state, where they don't need just cause to terminate you.

Yes, NC is an at will state but if discrimination is involved I think we have a case if it goes that far. We will see.

If I’m gathering everything right, you’re both employees of the same management company? Is the guest being threatened with termination if they continue to visit you?

It would seam to me that two documents would battle for supremacy here. Presumably you’re under a written lease? Are you in violation of that lease? Like say, guests can only remain for X number of days without being on the lease?

The other document would be an employee handbook or company policy against fraternizing. If you’re the property manager and you’re having one of you’re leasing agents over... yeah, you can be fired for that. Is it one of your tenants? That would be improper too, you can be fired for that.

If you’re living onsite, I’ve got a song you can play on loop... Sixteen tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford, because you Owe your soul to the company store.

So a matter of fact is that this is a new mandate by our regional manager who recently fired my friend who used to work on the property. I am a leasing consultant living on the property the regional manager has just mandated that anybody who communicates are contacts with my friend who is the ex-employee especially those living on the property will be terminated. I live on site still pay my rent. The management company has no say in who can visit me or who I communicate with. The ex-employee is no longer an employee of more than a month and this is now being related to me that I will be fired if I communicate with him or have him over myhome. The management company can dictate what happens on common ground and if they don't want him on property that is fine but they cannot dictate who can come in and out of my home

Janice, your Regional Manager is afraid, it sounds like. He/she can direct that ex-employee with demand to vacate the property and issue an order of banishment and go so far as issue a no contact order for the property and its employees (but I am NOT a lawyer so take this with a grain of salt.) However, you can be friends with whomever you like; no one can tell you that you cannot be friends with someone. It's none of the Regional Manager's business. I suggest treading lightly for a while though. I would NOT invite this person to your home. After a couple of weeks, I'd continue the friendship off site and would ask that person to never call you while you are on the clock. Something went down .... don't get caught in the crossfire though. If you feel really strongly about it, look for a job elsewhere or move off site.

Thanks for the advice.