The first professional women's league championship will not start this Saturday, as planned.
The Higher Sports Council (CSD) has not been able to unblock the refusal of the referees to direct because they consider that their working conditions do not meet the parameters of professionalism that include decent contracts and salaries.
On the afternoon of this Friday, the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco, tried to convince the referees to appear in exchange for supporting them in their demands before the bosses.
Franco let the group of referees know that they will have the full support of the CSD to improve their current conditions, increase their salary and be recognized professionally.
The government body offered to hold meetings between the parties starting next week to promote a negotiation that meets these objectives.
However, the arbitration group has asked the CSD to specify this support and they have not obtained a convincing response.
Except for a last minute turn, the Women's League is paralyzed indefinitely.
On Monday at 12:30, at a press conference, the members will explain the reasons for the indefinite break that has begun.
The referees announced on Thursday afternoon that they refused to appear on the first day.
Six days earlier, at a press conference, they had already warned that, if the conditions offered by the Professional Women's Soccer League (LPFF) did not meet their demands, they would seriously consider a break, as it was.
The latest offer from the employers, received on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Spanish Football Federation, did not convince them considering that it is very far from their claims.
“We want an agreement with decent contracts and wages.
Women's football has taken a leap by becoming professional in the League and we want to have minimum conditions like the rest of the members of professional football", defends Yolanda Parga, head of women's arbitration, integrated in the Technical Committee of Referees of the federation.
According to Parga, the members have already lowered their claims before making the decision not to exercise this weekend.
In their last proposal, they demanded, under contract, 40,000 euros a year for professional referees and 30,000 for assistants, amounts that should increase progressively year after year in accordance with the growth of the competition's income, if it were to occur.
In addition, they also demand separate payment for directed matches and allowances, as is the case with the male group, that the emoluments of the fourth female referees, who are not professionals, be increased, and that the party delegates, the clothing, travel and referee training seminars.
According to the employers, these demands are already included in the new negotiations that tried to unblock the break.
the collegiate members already lowered their claims before making the decision not to exercise this weekend.
In their last proposal, they demanded, under contract, 40,000 euros a year for professional referees and 30,000 for assistants, amounts that should increase progressively year after year in accordance with the growth of the competition's income, if it were to occur.
In addition, they also demand separate payment for directed matches and allowances, as is the case with the male group, that the emoluments of the fourth female referees, who are not professionals, be increased, and that the party delegates, the clothing, travel and referee training seminars.
According to the employers, these demands are already included in the new negotiations that tried to unblock the break.
the collegiate members already lowered their claims before making the decision not to exercise this weekend.
In their last proposal, they demanded, under contract, 40,000 euros a year for professional referees and 30,000 for assistants, amounts that should increase progressively year after year in accordance with the growth of the competition's income, if it were to occur.
In addition, they also demand separate payment for directed matches and allowances, as is the case with the male group, that the emoluments of the fourth female referees, who are not professionals, be increased, and that the party delegates, the clothing, travel and referee training seminars.
According to the employers, these demands are already included in the new negotiations that tried to unblock the break.
The LPFF proposal rejected by the women's arbitration group consisted of maintaining the receipt of 3,300 euros per game that was already paid last season, but only distributing it among the main referee, 50%, and 25% for each assistant, with diets Other than that they had to be negotiated.
With this, the main collegiate members would go from earning 300 euros to about 1,600 and their two assistants, from 168 to about 800. However, from the female arbitration group they add that, if payments to social security are deducted, the amount offered does not would reach the minimum interprofessional salary.
"And this is already a professional competition," warns Yolanda Parga.
Both parties complain that their respective requests and proposals have not been met.
The referees assure that the LPFF has not really mobilized until they have threatened to stop and from the employers they affirm that the response to their latest proposal has been to call the arbitration stoppage through a statement.
The episode brings the war between the Federation and professional football back to the table.
The LPFF, in its statement on Thursday, accused the federative president, Luis Rubiales, of being the instigator of the arbitration break and of lying to the collegiate members about the negotiation carried out.
This Friday, LaLiga issued a statement in which it supported the employers of women's football.
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