by valleys07 » Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:04 pm
In response to Goddy's question, this post came from Big Footy. An extract from the AFL collective bargaining agreement (not sure if this is the latest version of the CBA though):
17. Termination Payment
(a) An AFL Club shall be entitled to apply to the AFL to delete a Player’s name from its List and by written notice to the Player in accordance with the Player’s Standard Playing Contract, terminate the contract upon the Player being delisted. In such case, the Player’s Standard Playing Contract shall be at an end provided that the AFL Club shall pay the Player by way of compensation:
(i) the balance of the base payment payable for the year in which the Player was delisted;
(ii) Match payments calculated at the rate applicable to the relevant competition (AFL Senior or State Body equivalent) in which the Player last played, for the balance of the year in which the Player was delisted;
(iii) where the Player’s Standard Playing Contract had one or more further years to run, the base payment for each year following the year in which the Player was delisted; and
(iv) where the Player’s Standard Playing Contract had one or more further years to run, a further number of Match payments calculated at the rate applicable to the relevant competition in which the Player last played (in total not to exceed 22).
The obligation on the AFL Club to pay further base payments for the years following delisting shall apply only in the case where a delisted Player had one or more years under his Standard Playing Contract to run. In all cases where a Player was delisted in the final year of his Standard Playing Contract, the Player shall be entitled to the balance of the base payment for the year in which he was delisted together with Match payments for Matches played for that year calculated at the rate applicable to the relevant competition (AFL or State Body) in which the Player last played with the AFL Club.
(b) The payments due to a Player under items 17(a)(iii) and 17(a)(iv) of this Schedule C shall, unless otherwise agreed between the Player and the AFL Club, be paid as follows:
(i) a monthly instalment of the base payment on 30th November in the year the Player was delisted;
(ii) in the event that the Player is not drafted by another AFL Club in the National or Pre-Season Draft held in the year the Player was delisted: 79
Amended 17 February 2015
(A) the balance of the base payment due to the Player within seven (7) days of the date of the Pre-Season Draft;
(B) the amount (if any) due under item 17(a)(iv), within seven (7) days of the date of the Pre-Season Draft.
(c) Where a Player is drafted by another AFL Club any outstanding payments due to the Player under items 17(a)(iii) and 17(a)(iv) of this Schedule C shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of item 18 of this Schedule C.
(d) Subject to item 18 of this Schedule C, in the calculation of the payment of termination benefits set out above, no account shall be taken of any further amount or amounts which the Player may receive as a consequence of re-employment by another AFL Club or any other Australian Football club.
(e) The provisions of this item shall not apply to a Player:
(i) who, by his agreement, is involved in a pre-Draft transfer between AFL Clubs which results in a transfer and such Player being listed with the transferee Club;
(ii) who has retired;
(iii) whose contract was terminated as a result of serious or repeated misconduct by the Player; or
(iv) who has agreed in writing with his AFL Club to otherwise terminate his contract.
Nothing in this item 17(e) shall be construed as preventing a Player from negotiating and reaching agreement with an AFL Club on a termination payment from the transferor Club.
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