GAVIN RICH: Offer to Pieter-Steph highlights flaw in SA rugby approach
Unions have been effectively barred from putting together a counter-offer and don’t even have space to negotiate
04 May 2020 - 05:05
The record offer made by Montpellier to world rugby player of the year Pieter-Steph du Toit has underlined a fault in the collective bargaining approach the SA rugby industry has adopted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though not replicated in the other top southern hemisphere rugby nations, offering a 21-day window for locally based SA players to get out of their contracts seems reasonable...
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