Osnabrück – Some people might lose their appetite with this clause.
VfL Osnabrück (17th place, 2nd league) wants to encourage its employees, including professional footballers, to behave in an environmentally friendly manner, which is why they write a so-called common good clause into their contracts.
Specifically: If you use more CO2, you get less money!
Vfl managing director Michael Welling (52) explained to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (“NOZ”) that the clause was not binding. Anyone who chooses them will receive an annual salary of 750 euros more. The costs of the CO2 emissions would then be deducted from the 750 euros, explains Welling. Part-time workers and part-time employees are generally excluded from the clause.
According to one, the calculation of the individual footprint goes into this notice The association includes, among other things, “the length of the journey to work, how it is completed or aspects such as vegan or vegetarian eating habits”.
In the statement, the club also refers to the club’s “grandchildren-friendly orientation”. The aim is to raise employees’ awareness of the topic and “the individual responsibility of each person for avoiding and reducing CO2e emissions.”
Labor lawyer Arnd Diringer (51) tells WELT: “It is fundamentally none of the employer’s business what their employees do privately. There are only a few exceptions to this. Eating habits and where you live certainly don’t count for the employees of a football club.”
Vfl boss Welling himself admitted to “NOZ” that he did not know whether the clause would survive legal review.