UAE:Late Wages for Migrant Workers at a Trump Golf Course in Dubai

UAE – Migrant workers working for the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai have not been paid their salaries for months, The New York Times reports. According to the report, entitled Late Wages for Migrant Workers at a Trump Golf Course in Dubai” workers from countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan, have not been paid for a while and therefore have not been able to send money to their families, exposing them to hunger, as they depend remarkably on what their parents send. According to the report, the worker are not inclined to complain, not about the merciless sun or the 110-degree heat, as they labor to transform the pale sands of the Arabian desert into verdant fairways, as they feel that they work in the most important sites of the President of the United States, yet they do not receive salaries, which angers them. The company is carrying out work on luxury villas at the golf club, which is managed by the Trump Organization and Damac, a major Dubai real estate developer, according to the Times. The company’s founder, Hussain Sajwani, has a net worth estimated at around $4 billion, and he won two golf courses with the US presidents family in Dubai. The two deals generated profits of about $ 10 million in 2015 and 2016, according to the US financial report. According to previous statements by Sajwani to Bloomberg, a plan is being made to build a small hotel and a school attached to the newly opened golf course in Dubai in partnership with the Trump Foundation, adding that another golf course is scheduled to open next year, in partnership with President Trump.