December 3, 2016

Say ‘Bye, Bye’ to Expected Overtime Rules – Court Order Cuts OT Pay

https://trofire.com/2016/11/29/say-bye-bye-expected-overtime-rules-court-order-cuts-ot-pay/
"despite his rhetoric on the campaign train, President -“select” Trump is unlikely to do a damned thing to help working people and the middle class. In fact, Donald Trump has an extensive record as a deadbeat. He has repeatedly failed to pay what he owes to his own employees as well as contractors who have performed services or supplied him with material goods. Time after time, contracting firms who have worked for the Trump empire have had to settle for pennies on the dollar. New Jersey state senator Jim Whelan, former mayor of Atlantic City, told Newsweek in October of 2015 that “there were a lot of small contractors and vendors who got hurt, who went out of business because Trump did not pay contracts on time.” And that’s just his contractors. In 2007, Trump was sued by an employee at his Mar-A-Lago Resort for not paying time-and-a-half for overtime hours he put in over the course of three years. Earlier this year, he paid a settlement to employees of Trump Resort Management, LLC, who sued him for failure to pay overtime as agreed. He has also been sued for wage discrimination and as of this past September, has yet to pay at least ten of his campaign staffers. Of course, Trump is able to buy his way out of all of these legal problems, but seriously, with a record like his, does anyone realistically believe that the Trump Administration is going to do anything for people who actually work at making real, tangible contributions to society, providing us with real goods and services – as opposed to the billionaire investor class that enriches itself by moving money around, exploiting people and communities for their own benefit and rigging the game of crapitalism in their favor?"