Trump Tower cheated me on OT: porter
A FORMER porter at President Trump’s flagship Midtown building says he was forced to work epic shifts there without any overtime.
Rakhim Urazov filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday, saying he wasn’t compensated for the extra hours he put in at Trump Tower, even though his work days sometimes stretched from 7 a.m. to midnight.
He is suing Trump Tower Commercial LLC — which is registered to the President’s Trump Organization — and Trump Tower Condominium, the residential side of the building. The lawsuit says that Urazov was illegally forced to sign a document giving up his right to overtime.
“It is our mission to fight for workers who were treated unfairly and not paid properly for all hours they worked,” Urazov’s lawyer, Gregg Shavitz, said.
“Trump Tower required that our client sign an unlawful agreement waiving his rights to overtime pay.”
Urazov, 46, worked in different capacities at the Fifth Ave. building from 2003 to 2014, including as a security guard.
The lawsuit says he worked an average of 55 hours per week.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay employees time and half on all hours worked over a 40-hour week.
Two days a week, he would work 17-hour shifts at Trump Tower.
The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment. — —