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The fact that a maximum of 115 million francs should flow into professional sport, which has been rocked by crown-related ghost games, is almost indisputable in the councils. Details will be discussed. And in those lies the devil as is known.
When it comes to compensation for sport, one point in particular is at the center of the discussion. The Federal Council had proposed that clubs that accept the money (two-thirds of the average audience income in the 2018/19 season per ghost game) should cut their salaries by 20 percent for each employee with an annual salary of more. of CHF 148,200. I have to.
“A transparent and easy to use solution”
However, since this would lead to significant problems in implementation due to legally valid contracts (of limited duration), first the National Council and then the Council of States have made corrections: average salaries above 148,200 must be reduced by 20 percent. “So not a single player, who may have a large income or is a troublemaker, can make the whole thing fall apart,” argued Council of States Senior Vice President Schaffhausen Hannes Germann.
Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer also agreed with this. «It is a transparent and easy to use solution. Clubs can live with that, ”says the finance minister.
Reduction only for those “directly involved in the game”?
Germann’s minority motion was accepted by 34: 2 and 3 abstentions. Before that, the Solothurn Council of States of the CVP, Pirmin Bischof, had put numbers on the table: the Swiss Football League (10 clubs) had a salary volume of 48 million francs and an average salary of 155,000 francs a year , the twelve hockey clubs of the National League. it would reach 112 million and salaries of 215,000 francs on average.
The National Council and the Council of States have not yet fully agreed on some details. It is important to clarify whether the salaries of more than CHF 148,200 should only be cut for the “employees directly involved in the game”, as the National Council wants, or also those of the management.
In addition, the small chamber has agreed to an explicit deadline for salaries (October 12, 2020) for the calculation. Now the Commissions of Economy and Taxes (WAK) of the National Council have to return to address the issue to adjust the differences. When everything is regulated in the new Covid-19 law, the Federal Council can write the ordinance.
