NO-WORK, NO-PAY POLICY AT WANDERERS

MBABANE – COVID-19 has had serious effects for local football.

Manzini Wanderers players are among those who have felt the pinch after the hub giants’ management effected a no-work-no-pay policy for last month’s salaries.

According to sources close at the team, players started getting worried when January salaries were delayed as of last week, but they eventually received the salaries minus the number of days they did not attend training due to the lockdown.

The sources claimed that the deceased Director Thembumenzi ‘T-Man’ Mkhatshwa, was handling the issue of players’ payment and there was uncertainty when salaries were delayed.

Explaining the whole situation, the maroon and white outfit Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mlungisi ‘Mluga’ Ndzinisa, acknowledged that there were glitches in paying players’ salaries for January after the demise of their former director.

He, however, insisted that according to his full knowledge, players were fully paid for the past month, highlighting that they were even fully paid for December on the 24th.

Nonetheless, Ndzinisa divulged that as a club, ahead of the strengthened partial lockdown imposed by government in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, they effected the no-work-no-pay policy.

“Last week, money to pay players’ salaries was deposited in Manzini Wanderers account. Thembumenzi handled the technical and had to sign, but it was a short process we sorted out swiftly. What happened is that, we introduced the no-work-no-pay policy effected as per the number of days the players were absent from training,” he said.

The ‘Weslians’ mouthpiece clarified that the no-work-no-pay rule was effected before government imposed the partial lockdown and players would not be affected by the policy during the lockdown as they will be fully paid.

This then, according to the PRO meant that the team deducted money for the number of days the players were absent from training before the lockdown.

“If, for instance, a player was absent for 10 days, then money for those stipulated number of days would be deducted, otherwise we paid them in full,” said the Weslians’ spokesperson.

He said from the register, they checked the number of days attended by each player and subtracted money for the days of the lockdown before paying the players.

He said though there was a delay, he thought the players’ salaries were already deposited in their accounts.

According to sources, players had started complaining before the end of last week as salaries were still not paid and decried the death of T-Man as he was the one responsible for this department. This is the same challenge that Ndzinisa said was swiftly addressed by the team.

Some of the players reached for a comment confirmed challenges in as far as getting January salaries was concerned, but prefered to comment on condition of anonymity.

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