amber_fluid wrote:What are the staff getting paid to do whilst football is off?Jim05 wrote:amber_fluid wrote:Booney wrote:[quote="amber_fluid"]
You mentioned non- football staff in your first sentence but saying staff in the second sentence, you mean not players?
Or players included?
Correct, at this point, not players.
GWS and Gold Coast have stood down most of their non-football staff already.
Football staff at all clubs currently being thinned out, most will lose their incomes.
Surely players being put on reduced wages happens first?
Getting rid of staff on $50-150k first seems wrong given top end players will still see half of their $600-800k.
Many staff at a football club wouldn’t be required if there is no football I’d think
Players aren’t required either if there’s no football.
I just hate how industries always start at the bottom when trying to save money.
Players should all be put on minimum wage until further notice IMO[/quote]Difference is that players would be on a contract whereas club staff would be casual employees. People that man membership tents and merchandise stalls at games for instance would have been the first to go.
The AFLPA is in loggerheads with the AFL currently because the players aren’t being paid but are expected to retain their fitness and are still subject to random drug tests etc in this period. Players are arguing that they are effectively out of work so should be free to go and do whatever they want