The USWNT seeking nearly $67 million in damage equal claim to remuneration from the US soccer. Here you are knowing what about the case

The soccer of the United States women’s national seeking nearly $67 million in damages as part of its legal action against gender discrimination football associations in the United States. Document presented Thursday at the District Court in Los Angeles by both the USWNT and the Football Federation of the United States has asked for a summary assessment for each government side, go to avoid, in an attempt to court. The USWNT said that the Football Federation of the United States “gender stereotypes” used to decide how much the players arguing for nearly $67 million would be paid in arrears, according to the filing. The documents also contain the individual collective agreements for each team that showed how the pay structures for each team are different. statements selected by the USWNT members were also included in the documents submitted. US soccer cited individual contracts as a justification for the pay differentials in a statement to The Associated Press. “International women are paid differently because they specifically requested and negotiated a very different order than the national men’s team, the challenge offered, and the refusal of such a pay-to-play agreement in these negotiations,” said the ‘ association According to the statement, the consent of the women’s team belongs guarantees, among other things annual salaries, medical and dental insurance, paid child care, the paid pregnancy and maternity leave, severance pay, more bonuses – benefits that says the game US soccer is not made available to the national men’s team. USWNT spokeswoman Molly Levinson football controversial US claims in a statement to AP. “In the last CBA negotiations USSF repeatedly said that equal pay was not an option, regardless of the wage structure. USSF proposed a” pay to play “structure with lower wages across the board,” said Levinson. “Players of women’s lower salaries were offered in each case for a consensual or competitive game than their male counterparts. This is the definition of discrimination based on sex, and, of course, rejected the players.” Players with the USWNT quoted football over the United States in March accusing the association does not compensate or her in a way that needs to be treated equivalent to what the team won the men, mediation efforts in August last year quickly broke in August last year, said that time Levinson concludes with sessions that are “seriously disappointed in the dressing determination to perpetuate fundamentally discriminatory working conditions and behaviors.” He added that the ongoing conflict on the wage gap may end up in an attempt. “It ‘clear that USSF, including the Board of Directors and the President Carlos Cordeiro, fully intends to continue women players to make up less than men. You will not succeed,” said Levinson. “We want to know all our fans, sponsors, colleagues around the world, and women around the world, we are not discouraged and the appearance of a jury process forward with enthusiasm.” Representatives for soccer in the United States did not immediately respond to request for comment TIME, In a statement to CNN, the organization said: “We have repeatedly said that our goal is a solution can be found, and hoped during the exchange we had, we would be able to address the problems in a respectful manner and reach an agreement. “here’s what to know about USWNT ongoing struggle for equal pay. What you’ve sent in a class action in March women want National US Soccer and signed by 28 players on USWNT who support women who are consistently paid less than players on the team of men and discriminated against because of their gender, despite a strong performance record. The action was part of years of struggle between the USWNT and US football in terms of equal pay and gender equality. In 2016, five of the players on the team have a complaint about unequal pay and bonuses with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In 2017, the players signed a new contract with the Football Association and wins some control licensing and marketing rights. But the USWNT says that an agreement does not go far enough. “Despite the continuing discrimination, we feel as we progress towards a cooperative way they did the operation. Flow Yet, as we get into our remuneration conditions we progress we are in the month of April 2017, the same treatment as national men in the CBA, which ratified is not in a position to say, “he wrote in a letter to the association before the exchange Monday. Now, after years of frustration among the players and the Association, pointing USWNT their successes and great popularity as a push factor for equal pay. They won four of the eight world titles since the championship games Started in 1991 and four gold medals at the Olympics since the first football tournament for women in 1996. In his letter to US soccer, the Women reference to its “remarkable” success in the world Cup 2019. “We increased sales figures experienced, higher ratings, more passionate, more enthusiasm,” wrote the player. “The weary, arcane, irrelevant arguments and world Falling soccer protests dominated by men in this week” He added, “for both parties, the risk of not our differences on equal treatment of the solution that were not directed either in negotiations or the EEOC is too high. “as far as soccer in the United States made in an open letter, he said that after the lawsuit was filed, US soccer said surprised by the complaint and give their investment in women recent years had increased. US Soccer has denied the women players claims in a court filing the gap word in May, in the pay of the strains produced differences in the total income from different teams and / or other factors other than sex ‘, claims that men and women’s teams are “physically and functionally separate organizations,” the Washington post reported in July. After the US soccer World Cup has established two lobbying firms in Washington, the claims of unequal pay to waste before Congress to ask the association sought equal pay two teams, according to a political relationship. While the US government does not USWNT the football down the US fight on equal pay attention it shifted from lawmakers. More than 50 members of Congress sent a letter to the USWNT US soccer has made denounced the unequal treatment in law. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has put tied the question of equal pay in a bill that would withhold federal funds for men’s World Cup of the 2026, which will take place in the United States, Mexico and Canada, it has been resolved by dispute work. US soccer move to hire lobbyists has been criticized by both teams of men and women. In late July, US Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro argued that women are actually paid more than the men of the team and said that the federal government pays the USWNT $34.1 million salary and bonus game, while men $26,400,000 received. The data, compiled from soccer of the United States and on the basis of an analysis by employees of the federal government, not the benefits, such as health care and a 401 (k) to get the female players. (Men are not asked the same benefits available to the federal government). US Soccer Championship also figures of the national women’s football contained salaries paid by US Soccer in 2017 CBA negotiations. (The federal government does not pay the salaries Major League Soccer). While players of women compensated for men compared to this, things get very complicated. While the issue of equal pay for establishing between the two teams seems a matter of settling some numbers, collective agreements for both men and women play different wage structures. Gift Feldman, professor of sports law at Tulane University, tells TIME it is not uncommon for the mediation has ended without success. “Equal pay Many cases are complicated and are difficult questions to try,” he says. “In many cases, the fight if the jobs are similar is over, not the amount of pay. In this case, both are difficult questions: are the similar work, and the pay is the same? There wage differential due factors other than sex? “to make a direct comparison between what people than women earned by men and women players, and other factors, because of the different contracts signed difficult to come to the game, according to Feldman. Other players factor in the number of games they play, tournaments are held in the popularity of football in general, and to determine the money they make out of football to sponsors or other work, what they think is a reasonable amount are doing, says . Women players under contract earn a base salary of $100,000 and some bonuses on the basis of the game’s earning capacity. The players of the team of men earn bonuses. , Women have shown in the USWNT dress, compensation models that if both teams have won 20 straight games, 38% less than their male counterparts would do. This calculation was based on the existing collective agreement based Women’s team, which expired on Washington Post, in December 2016, which ran the numbers on the new collective agreement that is effective in April 2017 found that when victory Women 20 games in a row, a player would earn less than $28,333, or about 89% of what would a male player. The Post noted that both teams losing all 20 games, they would do the same amount as men a $5,000 bonus for loss and women have a basic salary. Compensation varies even more when it is fixed to the World Cup here although the pool of money is at stake by FIFA, is the prize money to the national associations around every football team. For the Women’s World Cup, he was a cash prize to $30 million in 2019, according to the Post. The USWNT earned about $4 million dollars to win the tournament. On the contrary, the prize money for the men’s 2018 World Cup was over $400 million, the champion team of France men of $38 million more than the total pool for women. US Soccer provides bonus for each team in several victories around the WM basic tournament. The USWNT players each received about $250,000 for the payment of bonuses to the World Cup, according to the Times. As part of the collective agreement of the men of the team, players receive $3,000 more when they lose as a Wold Cup qualifier that women earn the victory, the Post reports. What’s next in the same salary USWNT action happens The case will probably be located in a study of Feldman. US Soccer is responsible for demonstrating that the gaps in terms of pay are the result of “good faith,” says Feldman negotiations. US Soccer will try to make the case that the gap slopes pay differently agreed the two collective agreements with the associations of each team under their separate players insisting Also, he says. You need to show that the current situation is “just a product of collective bargaining.” US Soccer and the USWNT disagree is on how much to pay the players and how these payments will be quantified when compared with what obtained male players, “the association says among other things that it is apples and oranges” , says Feldman. “There is no single right answer to which fair is the answer to what was agreed [in collective agreements]. It’s not like a mathematical formula that will give you the right amount.” For women players, he says, it is the challenge of show that the gaps are a product of gender discrimination. “One of the emerging problems is that there is agreement on what are the relative wage levels,” says Feldman. “[US. Football] claimed that the women just as much if not more to do than men. They must prove that they are paid less for it and then show that gender inequality is due to discrimination and no gender neutral to other factors.”
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