Domain 12
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses
Wage theft, contractor fraud, labor violations, and employment discrimination.
24 entries
Rigging the Gig Economy: Trump's DOL Rules Made It Easier to Classify Workers as Independent Contractors, Stripping Employee Protections
2021 - 2026
In January 2021, the Trump administration's Department of Labor finalized a rule that narrowed the test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labo...
Opposition to Paid Sick Leave and Family Leave: Trump Administration Regulations That Narrowed Worker Protections During COVID-19
2020 - 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration issued Department of Labor regulations that significantly narrowed the scope of paid sick leave and emergency family leave protections establishe...
COVID Workplace Safety Failures: OSHA Refused Emergency Standards While Trump Ordered Meatpacking Plants to Remain Open
2020 - 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration declined to issue any emergency temporary standards to protect workers from the virus, despite re...
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: Legislation Marketed as Worker Relief That Primarily Benefited Corporations and the Wealthy
2017 - 2025
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into law, the most significant overhaul of the federal tax code since 1986. Trump and congressional Republicans promoted t...
Rollback of Overtime and Tip Protections: Trump DOL Narrowed Worker Safeguards Benefiting Millions
2017 - 2019
The Trump administration's Department of Labor rolled back two significant Obama-era worker protections: a rule that would have extended overtime pay eligibility to more than four million additional w...
Anti-Labor Record: NLRB Stacking, Minimum Wage Rollbacks, Erosion of Worker Protections, and Opposition to Organized Labor
2017 - 2026
Across both his first and second terms, Donald Trump compiled a documented record of actions that weakened organized labor, rolled back worker protections, and restructured the federal labor relations...
Environmental Deregulation Harming Workers and Communities: EPA Rollbacks, Paris Climate Withdrawal, Weakened Emissions Standards, and Reduced Workplace Safety Enforcement
2017 - 2026
Across both terms of his presidency, Donald Trump pursued an aggressive program of environmental deregulation and weakened workplace safety enforcement that has had measurable impacts on workers, publ...
Wages Are Too High, Too Low, and Irrelevant: Trump's Contradictory Positions on the Federal Minimum Wage While It Remained Frozen at $7.25
2015 - 2025
Over a period spanning a decade, Donald Trump took contradictory positions on whether the federal minimum wage should be raised, whether it was too high, whether it was too low, and whether it should ...
The Paint Spot: Small Business Forced to Litigate for $32,535 Owed by Trump National Doral Miami
2014 - 2017
In 2014, The Paint Spot, a small Miami-based paint supply company owned by Juan Carlos Enriquez, supplied paint and related materials for a renovation of Trump National Doral Miami, a golf resort owne...
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas: Years of Refusing to Bargain with Unionized Workers Despite NLRB Orders
2014 - 2018
Workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, a 64-story luxury hotel and condominium tower on the Las Vegas Strip, engaged in a multi-year fight for union representation and a collective bargai...
Mar-a-Lago and Trump Properties: H-2B Visa Violations and Rejection of American Workers
2013 - 2019
Between 2013 and 2019, Trump-owned properties, primarily the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, repeatedly used the H-2B temporary visa program to hire foreign workers for seasonal positions as c...
Ivanka Trump Clothing Line: Documented Sweatshop Conditions in Indonesian and Chinese Factories
2012 - 2018
Between 2016 and 2018, multiple investigations by journalists and workers' rights organizations documented labor abuses at overseas factories producing merchandise for the Ivanka Trump brand. The inve...
Andrew Tesoro: Architect Stiffed on $140,000 in Fees for Trump National Golf Club Westchester Clubhouse
2002 - 2006
In 2002, architect Andrew Tesoro was commissioned to design a new clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York. The project spanned four years and was co...
Undocumented Workers at Trump Golf Clubs: Years of Employment, Supervisors Providing Fake Documents, and Mass Firings
2000 - 2019
In December 2018, the New York Times reported that Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, had employed undocumented immigrants for years, with at least some supervisors aware of their imm...
Trump Model Management: Immigration Violations and Financial Exploitation of Foreign Models
1999 - 2017
Trump Model Management was a modeling agency founded in 1999 and operated under the Trump Organization umbrella until it closed in April 2017. The agency represented models primarily in New York and c...
Attempted Eminent Domain Seizure of a Widow's Home: Trump Tried to Take Vera Coking's Property for a Casino Parking Lot
1993 - 1998
In the early 1990s, Donald Trump attempted to use the power of government eminent domain to seize the home of Vera Coking, an elderly widow in Atlantic City, New Jersey, so that he could demolish it a...
Pattern of Unpaid Legal Counsel: Law Firms and Attorneys Alleging Nonpayment for Services
1990 - 2023
Multiple law firms and individual attorneys have publicly alleged that Donald Trump refused to pay legal bills for services rendered, a pattern that spans decades and extends through his presidency an...
Anti-Union Practices Across Trump Properties: Union Busting in Las Vegas, the Taj Mahal Strike, and a Pattern of Preferring Non-Union Labor
1990 - 2024
Across multiple properties and decades, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in a documented pattern of opposing unionization, fighting existing union contracts, and preferring non-union la...
Freehold Music Center: Piano Dealer Forced to Accept 70 Cents on the Dollar for Trump Taj Mahal Supply Contract
1989 - 1990
In 1989, J. Michael Diehl, owner of the Freehold Music Center in Freehold, New Jersey, was contracted to supply approximately $100,000 worth of grand and upright pianos to the Trump Taj Mahal casino i...
Polish Workers Lawsuit: Undocumented Demolition Workers Underpaid and Denied Union Benefits During Trump Tower Construction (Diduck v. Kaszycki & Sons)
1980 - 1999
In early 1980, Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization contracted with Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, Inc. to demolish the Bonwit Teller department store at 725 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, clearing th...
Unpaid Contractors: Decades of Documented Non-Payment Across Hundreds of Vendors and Workers
1980 - 2024
A pattern of non-payment to contractors, vendors, and workers by Donald Trump and the Trump Organization has been documented across multiple decades and projects. The most comprehensive examination wa...
Wage Theft and Labor Exploitation at Trump Properties: Documented Cases of Unpaid Overtime, Tip Confiscation, and Subminimum Wages
1980 - 2019
Across multiple decades, workers at Trump-branded properties have alleged, and in some cases proven through legal settlements and government investigations, that they were denied proper wages, forced ...
Asbestos Denial: False Safety Claims Contradicting Federal Documentation at Trump Properties
1979 - 1997
Donald Trump made repeated public claims that asbestos was safe and that opposition to asbestos was driven by mob interests rather than health science. These claims contradicted federal environmental ...
DOJ Housing Discrimination: Federal Consent Decree for Systematic Racial Bias in Rental Properties
1973 - 1978
On October 15, 1973, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil rights suit in the Eastern District of New York against Fred C. Trump, Donald J. Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. The suit alleged sy...