US professional footballers urged to wait for a jury hearing until 2021

While the women’s national team perform well in international tournaments, the men’s team rarely succeed.
While the women’s national team perform well in international tournaments, the men’s team rarely succeed.

If American women’s football players want a jury trial on their claim of discriminatory working conditions, they must wait until next year.

US District Judge R Gary Klausner told the players and the US Soccer Federation on Wednesday that jurors were not available during the novel coronavirus pandemic. He informed the sides if they wanted to stick with their Sept. 15 trial date, they would have to agree by Aug. 6 to a bench trial in which he would decide the verdict.

U.S. women's soccer demands for equal pay rejected by judge
If US Women’s Football Team Want a Jury Trial for Discrimination Case, They Will Have to Wait for 2021.

If they want a jury trial, he would postpone the start until Jan. 26. The players are confident that they will prevail at trial and are considering the options presented by the court for proceeding,” players’ spokeswoman Molly Levinson said in a statement.

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Klausner decided on May 1 that women were unable to show sexism over compensation and issued a partial summary judgment appeal from the USSF. He said the women’s national team union declined an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play system as the collective bargaining deal between the men’s national team and the women agreed fixed salaries and better benefits along with a different bonus structure.

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