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The lowest-paid shutdown workers aren't getting back pay

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Okay, since you are aware that Trump has something to do with them getting their pay, why did you say he had nothing to do with it?

Because they weren't getting to his level to even consider a signature. Hence, he had nothing to do with the process. I don't need a civics lesson.
 
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Because they weren't getting to his level to even consider a signature. Hence, he had nothing to do with the process. I don't need a civics lesson.
Can you link to a "pay vote" the Dems voted down?
 
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Donny has a long history of not paying people for their work.

He first got nailed when he brought in a large group of illegal aliens to do work on one of his construction projects. Of course, he then tried to stiff them, threatening to turn them in if they didn't comply.
Trump Paid Over $1 Million in Labor Settlement, Documents Reveal
In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald J. Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.

The workers were paid as little as $4 an hour for their dangerous labor, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all.

Their treatment led to years of litigation over Mr. Trump’s labor practices, and in 1998, despite frequent claims that he never settles lawsuits, Mr. Trump quietly reached an agreement to end a class-action suit over the Bonwit Teller demolition in which he was a defendant.

For almost 20 years, the terms of that settlement have remained a secret. But last week, the settlement documents were unsealed by Loretta A. Preska, a United States District Court judge for the Southern District, in response to a 2016 motion filed by Time Inc. and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Judge Preska found that the public’s right to know of court proceedings in a class-action case was strengthened by the involvement of the “now-president of the United States.”

In a 21-page finding, Judge Preska wrote that “the Trump Parties have failed to identify any interests that can overcome the common law and First Amendment presumptions of access to the four documents at issue.”

On the campaign trail and as president, Mr. Trump has made curbing immigration one of his top priorities, seeking to close the borders to people from certain Muslim-majority countries and to deport immigrants who are here illegally. The settlement serves as a reminder that as an employer he relied on illegal immigrants to get a dangerous and dirty job done.
Trump Paid Over $1 Million in Labor Settlement, Documents Reveal

They sued him. Huge and expensive embarrassment. He managed to get the case sealed to prevent people from knowing what he did, but now we know.

Looks like that might happen with the illegal aliens he recently hired to work his country clubs. This guy does not learn from experience, it seems.
 
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And I'll repeat, that month has little to do with what I said, those I mentioned can get it in as little as a week.

Actually, that is what you asked me to cite, and you conveniently skipped right past that/left it out, and went off on a chase to find something that appears damaging.

Someone just likes to argue and if being right means so much to you, that you are willing to waste all this time on something like this, you can go now thinking you prevailed, makes little difference to me.

:rolleyes:
 
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You win.

At least that beats trying to explain exactly what "right away" can mean.
It’s the difference between may and will and whether or not they would meet the qualifications. I have friends with a kid who were denied because they were on unemployment, so still had “enough” income.
 
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Actually, that is what you asked me to cite, and you conveniently skipped right past that/left it out, and went off on a chase to find something that appears damaging.

Someone just likes to argue and if being right means so much to you, that you are willing to waste all this time on something like this, you can go now thinking you prevailed, makes little difference to me.

:rolleyes:
I don’t know what you are talking about, but if I misunderstood I apologize. Some people do t realize how hard it can be to get public assistance.
 
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Are you not aware that Trump has to sign any legislation that awards back pay to federal workers? He very much has something to do with it.
He signed it several days before the shut down was ended. By the time you wrote this I already had my back pay.
 
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Are you not aware that Trump has to sign any legislation that awards back pay to federal workers? He very much has something to do with it.
Federal workers get their back pay.

CONTRACTORS ARE NOT FEDERAL WORKERS.

They work for private companies who contract out their work to the federal government. Whether or not a contractor gets paid during a federal shutdown usually depends on how the contract budget was negotiated during the start of the particular contract or project.
 
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And in emergency situations it can be done in a couple of days.

Oft times these agencies have more power than they advertise, so there is no way to find a written rule that states they can get stamps in a few days, and I very much believe as you say, they can under certain circumstances.
 
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Federal workers get their back pay.

CONTRACTORS ARE NOT FEDERAL WORKERS.

They work for private companies who contract out their work to the federal government. Whether or not a contractor gets paid during a federal shutdown usually depends on how the contract budget was negotiated during the start of the particular contract or project.
Indeed. Most were already funded before the shut down. And many contract holders just pocketed the money that would have paid their workers during the furlough.
 
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Federal workers get their back pay.

CONTRACTORS ARE NOT FEDERAL WORKERS.

They work for private companies who contract out their work to the federal government. Whether or not a contractor gets paid during a federal shutdown usually depends on how the contract budget was negotiated during the start of the particular contract or project.
I'm aware of all of this. I'm not sure why you think I'm not.
 
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