Blog tagged as Labor law

The transfer of Cheslin Kolbe in 2021 led the NRL to strengthen its rules on salary cap. Since 2023, part of the transfer compensation has been introduced into the calculation of the payroll of professional rugby clubs.

For FIFA and the CAS, a national football federation cannot terminate, on the grounds of non-achievement of a sporting objective, unilaterally and in advance the employment contract of the selector or assistant coach of the national team without payment. compensation.

On the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, more than 45 volunteers are expected in the capital during the summer of 000. This is an opportunity to recall the status of sports volunteers, their legal definition and the conditions commitment to responsibility

The decree of April 26, 2022 sets the conditions allowing the maximum duration of the first employment contract of a professional football player to be extended from 3 to 5 years.

Player loans will be subject to new regulations on July 1, 2022, which are part of the third group of reforms to the international transfer system – transfers of minors, loan contracts and squad sizes, registration periods, financial regulations .

On October 8, 2021, FIFA reminded member associations of their obligation to transpose the provisions on maternity of professional players adopted at the end of 2020. Is the FFF concerned insofar as French law already provides protective conditions for employees?

FIFA presented on September 10, 2021 the rules of procedure and operation of the Football Court. It brings together the existing decision-making bodies of FIFA into a single institution made up of three chambers: the dispute resolution chambers, the status of the player and the agents.

The announcement of FC Girondins de Bordeaux of its financial difficulties following the departure from King Street, is an opportunity to recall the sporting consequences, and in particular a demotion, if a football club is the subject of a reorganization procedure or compulsory liquidation.

Professional women's handball has just signed the first collective agreement in professional women's sport

The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union since January 1, 2021, has consequences for the English Premier League and the English Football League (from the 2nd to the 4th division), in particular as regards the recruitment of players. foreigners coming from the EU by English clubs.

The Council of State, by a judgment of December 11, 2019, considered that the salary cap or capping of the payroll did not "disproportionately affect the freedom of contract or the freedom to undertake and which has no impact on freedom of association in sports matters. "

The Professional Football League (LFP) has decided to extend the prohibition of release and termination clauses in article 202 of its Administrative Regulations to "any clause whereby a party has the right to unilaterally terminate the contract".

Grand Symposium: the lawyer in sport. Cabinet BERTRAND is a partner of the 4th Assises du Droit du Sport and will lead a practical workshop on the theme The status of the sports trainer.

The Council of the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) has approved certain amendments to the Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players, following two sessions of 15 March 2019 and 3 June 2019.

Maître Jean-Jacques BERTRAND, lawyer for Mr. Hatem Ben Arfa, interviewed by the Team on Monday April 8, 2019 following the Conciliation hearing before the Paris Labor Council, in the context of the dispute between the professional player football at his former club, Paris Saint Germain (PSG).

Me Christophe BERTRAND, sports law lawyer, interviewed by RMC Sport TV on the sidelining of a football player in the professional group and the implementation of article 507 of the Professional Football Charter (question d) news related to the case of Adrien Rabiot).

The European Commission has published a report on the development of the economic and legal issues of transfers entitled "An update on change drivers and economic and legal implications of transfers of players" analyzing the European football market and determining eight recommendations.

E-sport was enshrined in the Law for a Digital Republic n ° 2016-1321 of October 7, 2016. The Law provides for a particular legal framework concerning the status and fixed-term employment contracts specific to professional gamblers employed in gaming. competitive video.

The Court of Cassation (by two judgments of 2017) clarified the respective definitions of the offer and the unilateral promise of a sportsman's employment contract between a sports club (rugby) and a player (recognizes the existence of a contract due to the meeting of the wishes of the parties)

The Official Journal of 10 May 2017 also allowed the publication of a second decree on the eSport. Decree No. 2017-872 from 9 May 2017 was he on the status of professional players employees competitive games.