Foreign workers involved in building a new American consulate in Milan, a project reported to cost about $350 million, say they were paid less than $2 an hour despite being promised fair wages. Multiple outlets report that workers made the claims after working on the consulate construction site. The reports describe the project as a sprawling State Department development and note that the workers’ allegations center on wage levels that they say did not match assurances provided to them.
The coverage indicates that the consulate project is ongoing and that the claims raise questions about labor conditions and pay practices for subcontracted or recruited workers. While the articles focus on workers’ accounts, they do not provide a unified explanation in the excerpts about how wages were set, whether the payments reflected legal requirements, or what responses have been issued by contractors or the US government.
The reports therefore present workers’ allegations as the central point: they say they were earning far below what was promised for work on the consulate project in Milan.
