Late Wages for Migrant Workers at a Trump Golf Course in Dubai
The migrant workers make $200 to $400 a month, money
that frequently comes weeks or months late, prompting recent strikes, according to interviews conducted by with two dozen current and former workers at the Damac Hills course, where hundreds of laborers have been employed in recent years.
“Trump is not the owner or developer of Trump International Golf Club Dubai nor does it oversee construction or employ or supervise any of the companies
or individuals who have been retained to work on the building of the project,” said a company spokeswoman, Amanda Miller, in an emailed statement.
“We really don’t want to be in a situation where senior government officials are thinking about how much money they are going to cost themselves by enforcing U. S. government policy,” said Robert W. Gordon, a law professor at Stanford
and an expert on conflicts of interest, referring to Mr. Trump’s public role and private business.
In an interview with The Times last year, Mr. McLoughlin, the Damac spokesman, said Mr. Trump had visited Damac Hills several times.
Most of the workers interviewed by The Times have been employees of a local construction company, Al Arif,
which has a contract from Damac to build parts of the course and surrounding villas at Damac Hills.