Reporter Cheng Shan reported that in November last year, the Guizhou team exposed a large area of unpaid wage news, and there is also news that Hengfeng Group will abandon this Guizhou team after the end of the 2021 season and start another championship team. At that time, the unpaid wage storm was calmed down by the boss and chairman of the Guizhou club, who promised to make up for the arrears of the players' salaries, but the 2021 season has ended, and the Chinese League A teams have also begun to prepare for the new season, but the Guizhou team has not heard from it, and the players' wage arrears have not been resolved as scheduled. In this regard, these Guizhou players on the one hand waited for the club to receive a leave notice, on the other hand, these players who were owed wages have filed a lawsuit with the local court in Guizhou, hoping to recover their arrears of wages through legal channels.
Before the start of the fourth stage of the Chinese League A last season, Guizhou players publicly complained about the club's unpaid behavior on the Internet, and many players also forwarded it at the same time. For a time, the living conditions of the Guizhou team aroused public concern. At that time, the main complaints of the Guizhou team members were long-term salary arrears, and the training of the first team could not be guaranteed when the fourth stage of the league was about to start.
Then, the Guizhou club quickly reacted, the general manager and the chairman of the board of directors respectively came forward to respond to the problem of unpaid wages and the arrangement of the follow-up first team, and resumed daily training for the Guizhou first team.
The response at the time, mainly to players who promised to be owed salaries to varying degrees, would get different solutions, which did not rule out a solution of paying the debt in kind. Under the coordination of the Guiyang Municipal Government, the senior management of the group and the senior management of the club, the Guizhou team appeared in the fourth stage of the Chinese League A last season as scheduled, and finally won the 12th place.
I thought that entering the division would be the beginning of the problem being solved, but I did not think that until the end of the season, the players did not receive the unpaid wages promised to be compensated. After playing the last game, the players left the division to go home to rest, but before leaving, the club and the coaching staff did not announce the holiday time for the preparation of the new season, and did not mention when to cash in on the arrears.
The time has come to the end of February 2022, and there are still no reminders of leave and when to compensate for unpaid wages in the first team. Players with expired first-team contracts are already looking for a new team, while players with contracts are anxious like ants on a hot pot, wondering if the club will continue to exist. After all, at the end of last season, there were rumors that Hengfeng Group was going to abandon the Chinese First Division team and start another crown in Qiannan. The rumors have not been confirmed or denied, which is what makes the players most anxious.
Of course, what makes the players even more bottomless is the question of when the salary arrears can be cashed, after all, some players have been owed a whole season's salary. According to this newspaper, this part of the team members who have been owed wages have entrusted lawyers to deal with the matter of wage arrears. It is understood that the way Guizhou players seek salaries is different from the practice of most domestic players, they entrusted a lawyer to file a civil lawsuit with the local court in Guizhou for each player, and did not seek help from the Arbitration Committee of the Chinese Football Association like most of the players who were owed wages.
These players who were owed wages believed that after the Guizhou team owed wages in the previous two years, some players had gone to the Arbitration Committee of the Football Association for arbitration and also received a judgment of victory, but when the judgment came down, the Guizhou club did not pay the arrears of wages in accordance with the judgment of the Football Association Arbitration Committee.
In fact, this situation is not only the emergence of Guizhou clubs, in today's Chinese football industry, where wage arrears are common, how much enforcement does the arbitration decision of the Arbitration Committee of the Football Association have to protect the legitimate rights and interests of players, and there has not been a good case as a model. Because of this, the Guizhou players had to directly seek help from the civil court. Although they do not know how long the collective lawsuit will be fought, only then will they have the possibility of recovering the wages they deserve.