The Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) announced this Monday having reached an agreement with the Association of Women's Soccer Clubs (ACFF) so that the average salary of the labor contracts of soccer players during their sports career when preparing the well-known and discussed Compensation List of the Collective Agreement.
The union stressed that this agreement came “on its initiative” and after the celebration this Monday of a meeting of the joint commission of the Collective Agreement “of great significance for the important and urgent matters that had to be dealt with.” In this sense, he recalled that regarding this 'Compensation List' “it acquired with the ACFF the commitment not to prosecute the matter and to establish criteria” so that the amounts included “are not disproportionate, once the National High Court did not declare the compensation list illegal “last summer.” The ACFF has accepted AFE's proposal and from now on argued and well-founded criteria will be established.
As a fundamental criterion, the average salary of the football players' employment contracts during their sports career will be taken into account. In a word, from now on, only reasonable amounts can be required from clubs in relation to the current situation of women's football in the First Division, “added the body chaired by David Aganzo.
East He stressed that “he presented a precise proposal, with tables in which specific amounts are set based on different parameters” such as the years of permanence in a club, average salary during his professional career, participation as an international or number of games played as a professional.
“Faced with this situation, in its firm effort to build and redirect this situation, se has tried to reach an agreement to avoid differences between the parties“added the AFE, which considers that with the presented parameters “it will not happen again” that there are cases like some of last season, when more than one club demanded an exorbitant amount for the freedom of a player. “On the other hand, the union reported that other issues that have to do with the provisions of the Agreement were analyzed Collective as “the fulfillment of the calendar on the training in Christmas or the payment of the payroll in the fixed date”.
“It is worth remembering the complaints made by the Rayo Vallecano footballers, and this union on their behalf, regarding the delay in the payment of some payrolls or not having provided them with the contract deposited by the club in the SEPE (State Public Employment Service) to give legal certainty to the players themselves, “he warned, clarifying that other delays in other teams were also discussed and “trusting that after this meeting they will not occur again.” AFE advocates, and thus stated, to articulate a mechanism for automating complaints when the labor rights of soccer players are violated, in order to expedite any process aimed at solving any problem, “he said.
Footballers ON criticizes an “unfair alliance” between AFE and ACFF
The Footballers union ON criticized the behavior of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) and the Association of Women's Soccer Clubs (ACFF), whom he accused of having formed “a previous unfair alliance” to establish the agenda for this Monday's meeting of the Women's Football Joint Commission, in which he could not present proposals.
Footballers ON recalled in a statement that last November 3 he sent “a meeting proposal” to which only the UGT “replied”, and that on this Monday, “in a clear and desirable prior alliance, AFE has presented a preliminary agreement with the employer, by which the order of the day that the majority union has imposed on the rest has been followed.”
The union malaise continued with the matter of the Compensation List, in which “it has demanded, as stated in said article, the accreditation of the payments made by the signings of the players registered in the aforementioned list.”
“However, Such request has not been accredited or satisfied, so Football Players ON considers it to be a clear breach of the Collective Agreement and, without prejudice to the timely claim, it has proposed a modification of the wording of the competencies of the Joint Commission, “he added.” Is there something to hide? “
In this sense, he made it clear that his proposal on the subject was “short and at the foot” and he limited himself to asking 20,000 euros as “the maximum amount that a club must pay for a player under 23 years of age who ends her contract” since he believes that in this first season with the agreement “it has been shown that the amounts imposed by the clubs have been exorbitant and out of coherence” and that they have also served “to retain the players against their will”.
Therefore, Futbolistas ON pointed out that the unions cannot “collaborate in that, sportingly speaking, the players are cut off the projection, and even less so that a clause in their Collective Bargaining Agreement holds them against their will “. “Our union will never be against the rights and will of footballers,” he stressed.
On other points discussed such as the Christmas holidays, andhe union chaired by Juanjo Martínez pointed out that it is “exclusive competence of the Joint Commission” and that “It will mean that many footballers will be affected, when the obligation of the signatories of the Agreement was to meet before November 15”, as he had requested, “to address the calendar and that there would not be any conflicts or possible reprisals from the clubs in case of not having an agreement”.
Thus, denounced that an agreement had been reached “without negotiation”. “Our union has asked the ACFF that both us and UGT we could present proposals, to which the employers have resolutely refused, since they already had a pre-agreement with AFE“, lament.
“For all these reasons, Futbolistas ON wants to make it clear that it will continue to do the maximum it can within the minimum allowed and that it will listen to the voice of those affected, will defend your rights and will continue to fight to remove these clauses, because we consider that 100,000 euros are still an abusive amount “, he sentenced.