Fifa Draws Up Guidelines To Tackle Pay-Cut Complaints

By Daily Sports on April 6, 2020

Fifa is getting ready to deal with complaints and appeals over wage cuts for players, producing guidelines for clubs and football bodies looking to cut costs during the stoppage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, an internal document seen by Reuters showed.

The issue of pay cuts for players has exploded as a major controversy in England while in other countries, such as Germany and Spain, players have accepted temporary reductions in earnings.

With football halted across the globe, however, Fifa is aware that it may well have to deal with a series of different agreements and possible complaints, and its guidelines urge any cuts to be “proportionate”.

Fifa’s Coronavirus working group met last week and agreed on a wide range of issues, summarised in the document, including that player contracts due to run out in June should be extended to the end of any resumed season.

The internal paper notes that such decisions will inevitably reflect national law and specific agreements in each country but says it is keen to avoid large discrepancies between similar leagues and clubs. It also urges clubs, leagues and players to reach “appropriate collective agreements”.

The guiding principles behind such deals should be to “guarantee some form of salary payment to players and coaches, avoid litigation, protect contractual stability, and ensure clubs do not go bankrupt, while considering the financial impact of Covid-19 on clubs”.

Crucially, the document states that where clubs and employees cannot reach agreement and where “national law does not address the situation or collective agreements are not applicable”, unilateral decisions to change contracts “will only be recognised when they are otherwise deemed reasonable” by Fifa’s Dispute Resolutions Chamber or Players Status Committee.

A “reasonable” contractual change will take into account the economic situation of a club, the proportionality of any salary amendment and the net income of the employee after that amendment, Fifa writes in the document.

Fifa will also take into account whether the decision applies to the entire squad or only specific employees, and whether the club attempted in good faith to reach a mutual agreement with its employees.

The Fifa document summarising the working group’s views will be submitted to the Bureau of the Fifa Council for approval.

A Fifa spokesman said it was not in a position to comment as a proposal was being made to the Council, and “we cannot pre-empt that decision”.

The coronavirus working group is composed of representatives from across the game including the Fifa administration, confederations, national federations, the European Club Association (ECA), players union FIFPRO and the World Leagues Forum. (Reuters)

 

 

Source Daily Sports

Posted April 6, 2020


 

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