Like many football clubs around the world, Independiente Santa Fe – one of Colombia’s most successful teams, based in Bogota – has been forced to take drastic measures as a result of the global sporting shutdown. It decided in early April to cut its players’ pay by 50 per cent. But this is not the whole story.
While the Santa Fe men’s team will remain official club employees, the women’s team have had their contracts suspended indefinitely. At a stroke, they were deprived of both their current employment rights and any guarantee of returning to work once the pandemic has passed.
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