Bayern Munich will have to pay 200,000 euros in retroactive payments for not having complied with the minimum wage legislation at the Campus, its training center, between November 2016 and November 2021, announced Thursday the central customs office of Munich.’The club cooperated with us, the proceedings are closed. The case for us is therefore over,’ explained Thomas Meister, spokesman for the Central Customs Office in Munich, to the German sports news agency SID, an AFP subsidiary.
The survey launched in November 2021 and carried out by the agency revealed that “the club did not pay the minimum wage in its training centre”, the authorities said in a statement. In addition to the €200,000 in retroactive payments, Bayern will also have to pay €45,500 in social contributions and late payment penalties, the body said. Bayern never intended to deprive its workers of the authorized salary,” the club said in a statement, saying it will pay the amount claimed to the tax authorities.
As early as November 2020, one year before the start of the authorities’ procedure, Bayern had taken “structural measures at its Campus”, “to avoid in the future salaries below the prescribed minimum wage”, Bayern explained in its statement.
