Lawsuit claims Trump forced his driver to give up health benefits for a raise
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http://www.newsweek.com/trump-driver-health-benefits-raise-1014653
President Donald Trump stiffed his former longtime driver out of “thousands of hours” of overtime compensation and failed to provide a meaningful raise for more than 12 years,
according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the driver’s lawyers.
The suit filed by Noel Cintron, who served as the president’s personal driver for more than 20 years until the Secret Service began its security for Trump, claims the billionaire real
estate magnate “exploited and denied significant wages” from Cintron and names the Trump Organization as a defendant.
Trump is called out in the suit for his “callousness and cupidity” and points to “the fact that while he is purportedly a billionaire, he has not given his personal driver a meaningful raise
in over 12 years!”
Filed in New York state court, Cintron is seeking to recover the overtime pay as well as punitive damages. He claims to have worked roughly 550 hours of unpaid overtime each year for
six years for a total of about 3,300 overtime hours for which Trump failed to pay him.
Cintron says that he was paid $62,700 by Trump in 2003, received a pay increase to $68,000 in November 2006 and then was granted another bump in December 2010 to $75,000.
However, Cintron claims Trump only gave him the last raise after Cintron agreed to forfeit his health benefits, which allowed Trump to save almost $18,000 a year.
The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Newsweek’s request for comment.
One of the attorneys representing Cintron, Larry Hutcher, challenged the president’s claims of supporting the average American worker and said Trump had a “complete disregard for
the rights of workers.”
“Donald Trump has proclaimed himself as a champion of working men and women, but nothing could be further from the truth,” Hutcher said in a press release statement. “Noel
Cintron worked for him days, nights, and weekends, but year after year Trump refused to pay him the wages he had earned. A complete disregard for the rights of workers has defined
his disgraceful record in business.”
Accusing gentle Donald of a misdeed? That's the last straw!
Donald Trump using and exploiting people, then fucking them over when all is said and done?
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My Trump-loving friends would probably justify this as just being the name of the game for business and blame the driver for not wanting to make sacrifices to "move up in the world".
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