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Oct 15 2024

Benjamin Mendy ‘lent money by teammates’ after Man City stopped paying wages, tribunal hears | UK News

Benjamin Mendy was lent money by Manchester City teammates when the club stopped paying him after he was charged with rape and sexual assault, an employment tribunal has heard.

Current and former players Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez supported the French international, who now claims to be owed £11.5m in unpaid wages by the Premier League champions.

The 30-year-old’s £500,000 per month wage was withheld by the club after he was charged in 2021, the tribunal was told.

The World Cup winner was subsequently cleared.

Mr Mendy, who now plays for French Ligue 2 club Lorient, brought employment tribunal proceedings against Manchester City, claiming for “unauthorised deductions” from wages.

His contract showed he would also receive a £900,000 bonus for appearing in 60% of matches, a £1m bonus if City qualified for the Champions League, and an annual £1.2m payment to his image rights company.

Court documents shared with the Manchester employment tribunal said Mr Mendy “very quickly ran out of money”.

He then had to sell his Cheshire mansion to cover legal fees, bills and child support payments after his wages were withheld.

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Mr Mendy said his agent, Meissa N’diaye, paid towards his legal fees, while teammates including England international Sterling offered “financial support”.

“Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez all lent me money to help me try and pay my legal fees and support my family,” he said in his witness statement.

Mr Mendy, appearing via videolink, told the tribunal he and his agent had been assured by Man City’s then chief football operating officer Omar Berrada that he would receive his unpaid wages once he had been cleared of the charges.

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The footballer sent Mr Berrada a WhatsApp message in November 2022, asking if he could confirm in writing that the wages would be paid, the tribunal heard.

But Mr Berrada did not reply to the message, and denied ever having made such an assurance.

After his acquittal, Mr Mendy sent an email to Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the Emirati chief executive of Manchester City, but again received no response.

The club continued paying Mr Mendy following his first arrest in November 2020, but has argued it did not have to carry on doing so later because his bail conditions and Football Association suspension meant he was not able to perform his duties as a player.

Mr Mendy was found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in January 2023, but the same jury could not reach a verdict on another count of rape and one count of attempted rape.

It saw a retrial and Mendy was found not guilty of one charge of rape and one charge of attempted rape.

In April, a High Court tax debt case against Mr Mendy was dismissed after he paid a £700,000 bill.

The employment tribunal is expected to last for two days.

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Aug 29 2023

Food prices still rising faster than wages although overall rate of retail inflation falls | UK News

Food prices are still rising faster than wages, new data has shown.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) reported overall food inflation rose 11.5% in August, down from 13.4% in July.

But annual growth in average total pay only grew by 8.2% from April to June, according to the latest data available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Fresh food inflation fell to 11.6% in August, down from 14.3% in July.

Inflation for ambient foods – items stored at room temperature – fell from 12.3% in July to 11.3% in August.

Meanwhile the BRC said price rises in shops have slowed to their lowest rates in October last year but keep going up significantly.

Prices rose 6.9% in the year to August, down from 8.4% in July.

While retail inflation has dropped it does not mean items are getting cheaper, just that prices increased more slowly between September 2022 and August 2023 than they did between August 2022 and July 2023.

The BRC showed the main reason retail inflation dropped was because fresh food prices rose less rapidly.

Inflation for non-food items was unchanged at 4.7%, the BRC said.

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‘Better news for consumers’

“Better news for consumers as shop price inflation in August eased to its lowest level since October 2022,” the consortium’s chief executive Helen Dickinson said.

“This was driven by falling food inflation, particularly for products such as meat, potatoes and some cooking oils.

“These figures would have been lower still had the government not increased alcohol duties earlier this month.”

She said key components of toiletries and cosmetics had become cheaper which helped ease price rises in these categories.

Inflation for clothing and footwear increases

But inflation for clothing and footwear increased as the summer sales came to a close.

“While inflation is on course to continue to fall thanks to retailers’ efforts, there are supply chain risks for retailers to navigate,” Ms Dickinson added.

“Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities, as well as poor harvests across Europe and beyond, could serve as potential roadblocks to lower inflation.

“A potential £400m hike to business rates bills from next April would certainly jeopardise efforts to tackle inflation unless the chancellor intervenes.”

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Jul 19 2022

Real wages see record plunge over three months | Business News

Regular pay has seen the biggest plunge in more than 20 years when rising prices are taken into account, the Office for National Statistics has said.

Real wages – a measure of regular wage growth when inflation is factored in – fell 3.7% from March to May, the ONS said.

This was the worst year-on-year drop since records began in 2001.

“Following recent increases in inflation, pay is now clearly falling in real terms both including and excluding bonuses,” said David Freeman, head of labour market and household statistics for the ONS.

UK households are seeing their spending power eroded by soaring fuel and energy costs.

Real wages took a 3.5% hit in the year to May – an improvement on April’s figure of 4.5%, but still worse than any other time on record.

The employment rate remains below pre-pandemic levels despite increasing by 0.4 percentage points to 75.9%.

While the number of people neither working nor looking for a job is now falling, it remains well up on where it was before COVID-19 hit.

“With demand for labour clearly still very high, unemployment fell again, employment rose and there was another record low for redundancies,” Mr Freeman said.

DWP Minister Julie Marson said it was “fantastic news” that the UK now has two million more women in work than in 2010, adding that the latest OECD data shows the country has the second highest level of women in work in the G7.

“As we grow the economy, it’s vital we make sure everyone can find a job that’s right for them – and importantly that they can progress in work,” she said.

“That’s why we’re keeping up our support to get people at any age or career stage into work, including a new multi-million pound offer to help the over 50s get into, and remain in employment.”

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