This will be the ERTE of Barcelona

FC Barcelona has already raised the Temporary Employment File, ERTE, which will apply to all athletes in its professional sections. On Tuesday there were a series of meetings in which they participated the club's director of professional sports, Albert Soler, together with the manager of each of the sections in which the conditions of the same were communicated to them and that will affect while the confinement decreed by the state of alarm established by the government that entails the suspension of sports activity lasts.

In the absence of polishing the details, the idea is that All the professional athletes of the club have a reduction in their daily salary of around 70% for the duration of the confinement. This possibility was advanced by Mundo Deportivo on its website.

It is important to differentiate the salary of the file, since professional players charge for both concepts in addition to, what they have, bonuses and accessories per image.

This reduction would affect the days when the sports activity is stopped and the professionals cannot carry out their work and it will be applied in a linear, non-proportional manner., to all the professionals of the club. In other words, the same percentage will be applied to Messi as to Pustovyi.

The club understands that lack of practice affects everyone equally and that is why it is in favor of applying this criterion instead of a scale proportional to the salary of the players that, they assure from the Barcelona entity “It would not have been accepted by the labor authority.”

One of the peculiarities of this measure is that as soon as the state of alarm is suspended and therefore the confinement in the respective homes and the sporting activity returns, the players will regain the integrity of their salary regardless of whether or not the competition is played they were arguing before confinement. That is to say, it would not affect that competitions were not finished or suspended, they would receive all their salary the same because it would be understood that the professionals are doing their job, which is none other than training at the club's facilities.

On the other hand, Catalunya Ràdio announced in the Tot Costa program that Some of the members of the Barça sports area who are not athletes have already received a communication from the club to the effect that starting next month they will see their salary reduced.

The ERTE measure, by the way, will also affect club executives, Although these in the days of confinement have seen significantly increased their workload, but consider that “we have to set an example.”