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Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
Wed May 1, 2019, 10:45 PM May 2019

Trump's undocumented workers forced to work without pay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-trump-golf-course-undocumented-employees-said-they-were-sometimes-told-to-work-extra-hours-without-pay/2019/04/30/17f6c9be-65eb-11e9-83df-04f4d124151f_story.html?utm_term=.c70dcfae1a25

...."Allegations that workers were routinely shortchanged on their pay at President Trump’s suburban country club are now the subject of an inquiry by the New York attorney general, whose investigators have interviewed more than two dozen former employees.

The inquiry could raise awkward political questions for Trump, who has made stopping illegal immigration a centerpiece of his presidency and his reelection campaign but faces allegations that his business benefited from low-paid undocumented workers.

In jnterviews, six former Trump workers told The Washington Post that they felt systematically cheated because they were undocumented. Some told The Post about being denied promotions, vacation days and health insurance, which were offered to legal employees. The same pattern of unpaid labor was also described by a former manager.

Others recounted practices that could violate labor laws. Two told The Post that they had been required to perform unpaid side work. Two others said managers made them work 60-hour weeks without paying them overtime."....(more)


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Trump's undocumented workers forced to work without pay. (Original Post) Tanuki May 2019 OP
Trump would rather hire illegals than pay Americans keithbvadu2 May 2019 #1
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Progressive2020

(713 posts)
2. Newsflash
Wed May 1, 2019, 10:50 PM
May 2019

Trump is a lying hypocrite! Who would have thought! I am glad the New York AG is on this. No pardons for Trump and his stooges! I hope Dumpf gets his head kicked in with New York State charges.

When Trump is put out of office, I hope that the remainder of his life is a legalistic nightmare of charges, trials, and punishments. If he truly was smart, he never would have run for President and exposed his corrupt business practices to scrutiny.

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