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