Iceland worldwide Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir has described a call to award her greater than £72,000 in back-dated pay throughout her maternity depart as “a wake-up name” for golf equipment.
The 32-year-old midfielder took former employer Lyon to a FIFA tribunal in a bid to recoup under-payment of her wage in the course of the time she was away when her son Ragnar was born.
A ruling made public on Tuesday revealed that the French membership has been ordered to pay her 82,094.82 euros – round £72,139 – plus 5 per cent curiosity a 12 months from September 10 final 12 months till the debt has been cleared.
Responding in a submit on her official Twitter account, Gunnarsdottir, now in Italy with Juventus, stated: “This story is greater than me!
“It’s a wake-up name for all golf equipment and it is a message to all gamers that in the event that they get pregnant or need to get pregnant throughout their profession, they’ve their rights and ensures!”
Gunnarsdottir requested to be allowed to return dwelling to Iceland for the ultimate levels of her being pregnant, however enlisted the assistance of the gamers’ union in France, the Union National des Footballeurs Professionnels, and later FIFPRO, the worldwide consultant physique after receiving solely a proportion of the wages she believed she was due.
FIFPRO congratulated her on her landmark victory.
A press release issued by way of its official Twitter account stated: “FIFPRO congratulates Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir on her profitable declare towards Lyon over the membership’s failure to pay her full wage throughout being pregnant.
“We are happy to have assisted her in reaching the primary ruling of its form since FIFA’s maternity rules got here into drive in January 2021.
“It is extraordinarily vital for girls footballers and the ladies’s recreation that these necessary maternity rules are each carried out and enforced at nationwide degree.”
Lyon are but to touch upon the ruling.
FIFA guidelines, which got here into drive in January 2021, state: “A feminine participant is entitled to maternity depart, outlined at least interval of 14 weeks’ paid absence – with no less than eight weeks after start – in the course of the time period of the contract, paid on the equal of two-thirds of her contracted wage.”
