{"id":311,"date":"2021-09-15T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=149455"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:41:36","slug":"u-s-soccer-federation-says-that-they-have-offered-men-and-women-identical-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/u-s-soccer-federation-says-that-they-have-offered-men-and-women-identical-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Soccer Federation says that they have offered men and women identical contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) has come out to say that they have offered both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams an identical contract proposal to the players\u2019 associations. The governing body has said that they refuse to agree to a deal where the World Cup prize money is not equalized for both teams. The unions are completely separate for the men and women under the federal labour law and have no obligation to agree or bargain jointly to similar terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsmeglinehan\/status\/1437869601241681933?s=19<\/p>\n<p>The contract expired 2 years back in December 2018 for the men while the women\u2019s agreement runs through the upcoming month of December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. Soccer firmly believes that the best path forward for all involved, and the future of the sport in the United States, is a single pay structure for both senior national teams,\u201d was said in a statement by the USSF as reported by PTI\/AP. \u201cThis proposal will ensure that USWNT and USMNT players remain among the highest-paid senior national team players in the world,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the men\u2019s and women\u2019s unions did not respond to the request for comment at the earliest as the spokeswoman for the women players suing the federation, Molly Levinson denied commenting.\u00a0 Last week, the USSF had asked the men\u2019s union to voluntarily equalize the bonus World Cup money that is paid by FIFA to the federation as the former men\u2019s national team players did not respond to the requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Soccer Federation have said that they have offered the men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams identical contracts for the future off-field change in football. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[938,2735,2736],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-soccer","tag-usmnt","tag-uswnt"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}