Transferring a football club and its players falls within the Labour Relations Act
A football club is an employer and the players are employees, so players’ contracts remain intact if it is sold
09 August 2020 - 07:37
Professional football players and coaches in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) or GladAfrica Championship (GAC) have reason to cry foul if their clubs are sold and they are sidelined because the new owners cannot afford their salaries.
They are employees, and unless they gave their prior consent to being left behind or having their salaries cut, the new club owners could find themselves on the wrong side of the law — specifically section 197 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA)...
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