Emilo Silviero, Chief Legal Advisor of WFC, said, "The WFC Players' Fund has played an important role in defending players in need, and we look forward to working with the WFC Steering Committee on the second half of the program to continue to provide the necessary support to the sport's key players. At the same time, we have been taking detailed steps in recent years to further improve the legal framework to address the issue of players' salary arrears." And Roy Vermeer, Director of Legal Affairs for the WFA Counseling Committee, said, "The WFA Players' Fund has once again proved to be an important safeguard for working players around the world. It is difficult for players to be in a situation where they are deprived of the salary they are entitled to. The endorsement of the establishment of this fund by the WFA is a change for many players and should serve as a model for other national or regional soccer governing arrangements."
2 Five norms for requesting compensation
It is also because of the three men in the center
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The cumulative compensation of $98,000 for players registered with the Association has generated widespread interest in the country, even encouraging our players who are now owed wages to boldly make a similar request to the World Football Federation (WFF). And, it also seems to have given our players who are owed wages a glimmer of new expectations.
However, in terms of the WFA's announcement alone, the WFA did not indicate that the three individuals who were compensated for their work in China
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The players registered by the association are China's local players or foreign players, and because there is no personal details and identity, it is not clear that the compensation of local players from which salon, so to a large extent to the large number of China's players who are owed wages, I am afraid there is no reference. Of course, this announcement of the World Football Federation is actually more of a message, that is, the global scope of the players may not be a minority of the players who suffer from wage arrears, and the World Football Federation has also come up with real money to assist some of the players to deal with the actual problem of difficult to get paid and the situation.
If further carefully check the relevant documents of the world football federation, can see such a harsh reality, that is, the vast majority of China's work players are owed wages basically do not have to the world football federation to propose to the fund from the possibility of obtaining compensation. Because from the world football federation in June last year announced the world football federation players fund protocol (Protocol Governing the FIFA Fund for Football Players) has clear provisions, that is, as long as all the following five norms are in line with the unpaid players can be to the fund to put forward compensation requirements. Moreover, the compensation is divided into two categories: one is more than 50,000 U.S. dollars, the top amount does not exceed 100,000 U.S. dollars; one is 50,000 U.S. dollars or less. Of course, unpaid players are able to make repeated requests for compensation.
So what are these five norms about? Detailed inclusion:
1. The salon (during the period of execution) is affiliated to a member association, the player and this salon have clearly stated the amount of remuneration in the employment contract, and the player is owed remuneration in full or in part.
2. The player has received a final and legally binding decision from a judicial authority that he or she is no longer entitled to receive all or part of his or her remuneration from the former salon. This includes, but is not limited to: the Court of Arbitration for Sport; the decision-making arrangements of the member associations (e.g. national dispute chambers); the decision-making arrangements of the World Football Association; national tribunals or special courts. In exceptional circumstances, the Counseling Committee is able to breach or disregard this principle.
3. The salon must have been formally recognized or declared by the appropriate national or world rights organization that it is no longer legally or economically possible for the player to recover unpaid remuneration through any legal or conventional means. This includes, but is not limited to: the Salon has been declared insolvent; the Salon has been liquidated; the Salon is in bankruptcy. In exceptional circumstances, the Tutorial Committee may violate or disregard this principle.
4. As a corollary to article 3 above, the salon must have been published in the member associations to which it belongs and the players must have received a final and legally binding decision. Or, as described in article 2 above, it has been rendered unenforceable by a national or world court or special tribunal.
5. The player has exhausted all national or world level sporting and judicial procedures and it is now impossible to recover outstanding remuneration through normal legal procedures. This includes, but is not limited to, requests that have been made to national and/or world level economic defense funds.
If a player who is owed wages meets the above five conditions or criteria, the player can go to the official website of the World Football Association (WFA), fill in the relevant information, and formally submit a request to the "WFA Players' Fund". Then, the Steering Committee, which is jointly formed by the WFA and the World Workers' Union, will review the request and make a final decision.
3 Few in our country are eligible
Against the above five norms, it is not difficult to find that, in terms of domestic players who are owed wages, the vast majority of them do not fit the above situation. Because the vast majority of Chinese players who are owed wages are still signed by the salon still exists, still belong to the Chinese
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The Association is a registered salon and is also still preparing for the new season of the third tier working league. In such a situation, the players who are owed wages do not fulfill the requirements of Article 3 and are not eligible to file a compensation claim. This is one of the reasons.
Secondly, even if it is like the unmediated
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The Guizhou Salon, which will not be involved in the new season's work league because there is no final decision from the corresponding national legal arrangement, the player has not received the final decision from the corresponding national legal part or arrangement, and the player cannot provide proof of information to the WFA, so the same will not be recognized by the "WFA Players' Fund".
Of course, because the WFA mentioned in its April 7 announcement that three people in the middle of the
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The players registered with the Association have been compensated, because there is no further clear information, so under what circumstances our players can formally submit a request for compensation to the "WFA Players' Fund", is yet to be further understood.
It must be said that the domestic soccer world is still still a blank in terms of soccer justice. The development of China's work soccer, there are still many legal level of the blank needs to be filled. And, like the world football federation players fund is the world football federation and the world work players union jointly launched a project plan, and our country work soccer development so far, needless to say the work players union this kind of arrangement, even like the similar work alliance this kind of arrangement is also still only in the preparatory stage, therefore, safeguard the interests of the players I am afraid that can't be talked about. However, players, as a vulnerable group, need to be defended more.
