Player awarded 支援する 支払う／賃金 from Lyon over maternity leave
Midfielder Sara Bj?rk Gunnarsd?ttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in 支援する 支払う／賃金 that was withheld by her French club team, Lyon, in 違反 of FIFA's 支配するs 保護するing maternity 権利s.
Gunnarsd?ttir, who now plays for Juventus in Italy, wrote her account of the salary 論争 for The Players' Tribune website and the 詳細（に述べる）s of the 判決，裁定 by FIFA's Football 法廷 were made public this week.
によれば FIFPro, the international players union that 代表するd Gunnarsd?ttir in the 論争, the 事例／患者 is the first to 実験（する） FIFA 支配するs 保護するing players' maternity 権利s that went into 影響 on Jan. 1, 2021.
"This should have been the happiest moment of my life," Gunnarsd?ttir wrote. "All I 手配中の，お尋ね者 was to enjoy my pregnancy, and work my ass off to come 支援する to help the team and the club.
"But instead I felt 混乱させるd, 強調する／ストレスd, and betrayed."
Lyon （人命などを）奪う，主張するd it was に引き続いて French 法律. But FIFA's 支配するs say players are する権利を与えるd to maternity leave "defined as a 最小限 period of 14 weeks´ paid absence - with at least eight weeks after birth - during the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 of the 契約, paid at the 同等（の） of two-thirds of her 契約d salary." Clubs are also 要求するd to re-統合する players に引き続いて maternity leave.
FILE - Lyon's Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir, left, duels for the ball with Wolfsburg's Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh, 権利, during the Women's 支持する／優勝者s League final サッカー match in San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 30, 2020. Gunnarsdottir has been awarded more than $88,000 in 支援する 支払う／賃金 that was withheld by her former club team, Lyon, in 違反 of FIFA's 支配するs 保護するing maternity 権利s. Gunnarsdottir, who now plays for Juventus in Italy, wrote her account of the salary 論争 for The Players' Tribune website and the 詳細（に述べる）s of the 判決，裁定 by FIFA's 法廷 were made public this week. (Villar Lopez/Pool 経由で AP, とじ込み／提出する)
FIFPro said in a 声明: "It is 極端に important for women footballers and the women´s game that these 義務的な maternity 規則s are both 器具／実施するd and 施行するd at 国家の level."
Megan Rapinoe 反応するd on social マスコミ, 著名な because she plays for OL 統治する in the 国家の Women's サッカー League. The 統治する are owned by the parent company of Olympique Lyonnais, 一般的に known as Lyon.
"The culture at OL in フラン has a LONG way to go. Y´all love to talk about how much you support women, but this math is not mathing. I implore you to be the club that is ALWAYS supporting wo men, not the club that once did," Rapinoe 地位，任命するd.
Gunnarsd?ttir discovered she was 妊娠している with her first child in March 2021. Advised by her doctor to stop playing and 用心深い of COVID-19 感染s within the team, she asked if she could return home to アイスランド, with the understanding that she would continue to play for Lyon after pregnancy leave.
But once home, her 正規の／正選手 paychecks stopped. Instead, she got only a small 百分率, based on what the team said was French 法律.
FIFPro took up the fight for her 給料. In the 合間, she gave birth to her son and returned to Lyon, but it was （疑いを）晴らす that her 役割 on the team had 減らすd, and she understood that her 未来 was どこかよそで.
"I was する権利を与えるd to my 十分な salary during my pregnancy and until the start of my maternity leave, によれば the 義務的な 規則s from FIFA. These are part of my 権利s, and this can´t be 論争d - even by a club as big as Lyon," she wrote. "That´s why I´m 令状ing this. The victory felt bigger than me. It felt like a 保証（人） of 財政上の 安全 for all players who want to have a child during their career. That it´s not a "maybe," or an unknown."
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