Morocco’s National Soccer Staff Face Pay Cuts Amid COVID-19 Crisis
The salary reductions generated by the coronavirus crisis are reaching the Atlas Lions staff. The President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), Fouzi Lekjaa, is about to implement a reduction in the salaries of the executives of the National Technical Directorate and the coaches of the different age categories of the national teams, including Vahid Halilhodzic.
Like many structures, the FRMF has been heavily impacted by the suspension of sports competitions, to the point where the president has decided to take his responsibilities so that the federation can hold out until the end of the crisis.
According to the daily Assabah, "FIFA has instructed sports federations to only consider such measures if they are taken by mutual agreement between the different parties". For the newspaper, the reductions that the FRMF is about to make, "will be unequal since they will be based on the value of the salaries of each of the persons concerned".
But what will happen to an executive who does not wish to have his salary reduced? In the opinion of the newspaper, the employer, whether a club or a federation, has "the right to terminate the contract of its employees if it can no longer pay them a salary, because of the coronavirus crisis".
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