Labor investigates the Football Federation and 16 clubs for failing to comply with equality plans

Díaz points out Barcelona for not having a harassment protocol or equality plan and Real Madrid and Sevilla as those that “comply best”

MADRID, 6 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has opened a file against the Spanish Football Federation and 16 clubs for alleged violations of equality plans, possible pay discrimination and mandatory harassment protocols at work.

This was explained by the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, in an interview on RNE collected by Europa Press in which she did not specify the name of all the clubs that are being investigated, pending the completion of the Inspection’s work. of Work, although he has announced that Fútbol Club Barcelona is among those that “are sanctioned”, compared to Real Madrid and Sevilla Fútbol Club.

“The file on pay inequality in nine entities has not been completed and we already perceive that there are differences, but we are going to complete the task of the Inspection and, if it is true that Madrid and Sevilla and others are the ones that do the best, for example Barça and others are sanctioned because they do not have an equality plan, they do not have a harassment protocol,” argued Yolanda Díaz.

The minister has described as “very serious” that “the world champions (the players of the Spanish Soccer Team) are “sent without an equality plan and without a harassment plan in their workplace.”

Regarding the sanctions if the non-compliance investigated by the Labor Inspection is confirmed, Díaz has recognized that non-compliant entities could face the “maximum amount of fines”, although he has also recognized that “they would be small amounts as it is a documentary process.” as there is no employment relationship.

For Díaz, the most important thing, however, is to send a “strong message” that female soccer players “are heroines,” but also “a democratic lesson that there can be no machismo in sport either.”

In this case, the minister has alluded to the controversy unleashed by the kiss of the former president of the Federation, Luis Rubiales, to the soccer player Jenni Hermoso. You imagine that I am with the European commissioners and they do to a vice president the same thing as Mr. Rubiales, would you think that is normal,” Díaz asked himself, calling it “nonsense.”

“It’s over,” added Yolanda Díaz to then send a message to the football clubs: “16 and the federation itself have been explored and when we talk about equality we talk about fundamental rights, therefore, they have to comply with the regulations; “Harassment is a very serious matter and we cannot have players displaced around the world without action protocols like those companies have and, of course, equality plans.”

2024-03-06 09:29:51
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