Ex-Lyon player, Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, won a maternity pay case against the club after she received only 'a small percentage from social security' during maternity leave. FIFA also found that the club failed to follow the 'duty of care' guidelines.
"[The] ruling against former club Olympique Lyonnais sends a clear message to clubs and footballers worldwide: The strict application of maternity rights is enforceable,"Calling it the"first ruling of its kind since FIFA's maternity regulations came into force in January 2021," FIFPRO called upon all organisations to recognize the enforcement of"mandatory maternity regulations.
"They talked about the 'duty of care' of the club, that there was no contact with me during my pregnancy. No one was really checking on me, following up, seeing how I was doing mentally and physically, both as an employee, but also as a human being. Basically, they had a responsibility to look after me, and they didn't," Gunnarsdottir said.
"I want to make sure no one has to go through what I went through ever again. And I want Lyon to know this is not OK... We deserve better." "FIFA has reproached us for not having offered another job to Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir during her sick leave and then her maternity leave when at the same time the law forbids us to do so in France and the player had expressly asked us to to be able to return to live in Iceland, which we accepted," Olympique Lyonnais wrote in a news release on Tuesday.
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