Trump's long-time driver sues for several years of unpaid overtime

US President Donald Trump's personal driver of over 20 years has decided to file a lawsuit against the Trump Organisation alleging that the billionaire real estate developer has not paid for thousands of hours of overtime, has not increased his salary and cut off health benefits.

The driver, identified as Noel Cintron, sued the Trump Organisation for about 3,300 hours of overtime in the last six years. However, he is not allowed to sue for overtime prior to that due to the statute of limitations.

Cintron claims in the lawsuit that he worked an average of between 50 and 55 hours a week for Trump without fair compensation.

Cintron is seeking unspecified damages, including punitive damages and other sums for alleged violations of federal and state labour laws. He said the 3,300 hours of overtime alone were worth more than $178,000, at a rate of $54.09 per hour.

"In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has, through the defendant entities, exploited and denied significant wages to his own longstanding personal driver," the complaint said.

“Mr. Cintron was at all times paid generously and in accordance with the law," a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization said in an email. "Once the facts come out we expect to be fully vindicated in court."

Cintron received a wage increase in 2010, though he alleges that it was because he was induced to surrender his health benefits, which were of higher value than the raise itself.

Cintron said his salary was raised to $68,000 in 2006 and then to $75,000 in 2010, but the latter increase required him to surrender health benefits. He said this saved Trump $17,866 in annual health insurance premiums.

By law, Trump is obligated to answer the complaint within 30 days.