Source · Select Committees · Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 7
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We firmly believe that football must use its response to the Covid-19 crisis to ‘reset’.
Recommendation
We firmly believe that football must use its response to the Covid-19 crisis to ‘reset’. The crisis has shone a light on the culture of unfair pay in football. The decision by some Premier League clubs to furlough non-playing staff was deplorable, and we welcomed its reversal. Parachute payments must become a thing of the past, and considerable work must be done to advance work on salary caps. DCMS should engage with the Premier League and the EFL to learn lessons from abroad on policies such as salary caps, which may seem radical to those inside UK football, but seem to work well elsewhere.
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Government Response
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