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FIFA To Introduce Rules Protecting Female Players

By Daily sports on November 20, 2020

FIFA announced on Thursday that it is to introduce new regulations to protect the rights of female players, including mandatory maternity leave.

The reforms have been put forward by FIFA’s Football Stakeholders Committee (FSC) and will go to FIFA’s Council next month for approval.

While many players in Europe are already protected by employment law in their given countries, FIFA said its aim is to create “new global minimum standards” for female players, given the rapid emergence of new clubs and leagues around the world.

The proposed rules include a mandatory maternity leave of 14 weeks, at a minimum of two-thirds of the player's contracted salary, and a guarantee that “no female player should suffer a disadvantage as a result of becoming pregnant.”

The planned regulations also state that on their return to work after maternity leave, clubs must “reintegrate female players and provide adequate medical and physical support.”

Female players’ contractual rights were already covered by the existing regulations for all footballers, but the changes are a bid to address specific concerns for female players and are viewed as a basic minimum that can be applied in all countries.

“As we try to accelerate the professionalisation of the women’s game, which is one of our strategic objectives, it is really important that we evolve and adapt the regulatory framework around the game at the same time. This is a very good example,” FIFA’s chief women’s football officer Sarai Bareman told reporters. (ESPN)

•PHOTO: Women footballers

Source Daily sports

Posted November 20, 2020