Man City
Man City of England who is currently in the second place position have said they will not be furloughing any of their non-playing staff due to the coronavirus outbreak. With this movement, Man City becomes the first English Premier League team to carry out such policy.
Before now, five top-flight Premier League sides have already decided to place non-playing staff on furlough, which means the government will pay 80 percent of their wages while they are not working. Tottenham and Liverpool, together made more than £150m profit according to their recent accounts. With this accounts people has been crictizing the two clubs for their decision to furlough staff.
Man City have chosen not to take a similar step or action, their spokesperson said: “We can confirm, following a decision by the chairman and board last week, that Manchester City will not be utilising the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (government-funded furloughing).”
“We remain determined to protect our people, their jobs and our business, whilst at the same time doing what we can to support our wider community at this most challenging time for everybody.”
Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle, Bournemouth and Norwich and some other Premier League sides have placed their non-playing staff on furlough. The decision was made some times back and it has been in action for sometime now since the rise in the coronavirus pandemic. Man City currently are the first and only English Premier League side not to still stick to the normal Furlough law.