Workers leave the site of the future Trump International Hotel, being build in the Old Post Office Pavilion. The Trump hotel constitutes a government construction project because even though the project will be privately operated, the federal government owns the property and is leasing it to the Trump Organization for 60 years. The Labor Department is investigating the wages being paid by a glass subcontrator on the project. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post)The Department of Labor is investigating whether a subcontractor working on Donald Trump’s Old Post Office hotel has underpaid employees there, highlighting a concern workers’ advocates and union backers say is widespread in District construction projects. Other times the definition of a government project is hazier, such as when the Labor Department attempted to apply Davis-Bacon to CityCenterDC, the mixed-use downtown project on District-owned land.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 09:11 UTC