Former Trump Tower porter sues for unpaid overtime wages
Rakhim Urazov's lawsuit claims he did around 55 hours work, but was not properly compensated
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Your support makes all the difference.A former porter at New York's Trump Tower is suing the company that runs the building.
Rakhim Urazov alleges Trump Tower Commercial LLC failed to pay him overtime over a period of more than a decade.
Between 2003 and 2014 he worked at the tower as both a security guard and porter, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal district court in Manhattan.
The Fair Labour Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay employees one-and-a-half-times their hourly wage for work beyond 40 hours per week.
But, in a typical five-day period, Mr Urazov claims in the lawsuit that he did around 55 hours and was not compensated for his 15 hours overtime.
The filing says: “Defendants failed to pay Urazov overtime compensation at a rate of one and one-half his regular hourly rate of pay for all of the hours he worked in excess of 40 in a workweek.”
For two days a work week, he said completed 17-hour-long shifts, where he began work at 7am and ended at midnight, according to the filing.
Trump Tower Commercial LLC is registered to the Trump Organization, and Trump Tower Condominium, which owns residential apartments in the building.
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