consider for a minute those who have coached, and therefore who are responsible for setting the employment environment, throughout the history of the a-league.
you wouldn't consider many to be the modern day middle management type.
then tell me there haven't been numerous and ongoing PGs against many of those coaches and many many more where staff have been been treated terribly and not taken legal action.
it's bad, and it needs to change, but sport has not grown up yet.
you wouldn't consider many to be the modern day middle management type.
then tell me there haven't been numerous and ongoing PGs against many of those coaches and many many more where staff have been been treated terribly and not taken legal action.
it's bad, and it needs to change, but sport has not grown up yet.
For all I think Dome gets a lot of stick for things that aren’t directly under his control, this is one area that falls squarely on the GM’s shoulders: not just to have all the right HR structures and processes in place, but to lead an organisational culture where even the most junior staff feel confident they’ll be treated fairly.
Is the culture inside the club like that? I have absolutely no idea, nor do most of the people posting here or on social media.
But it’s in their self-interest to get there, especially with the Academy. If there was ever a complaint from one of the players (or more likely their parents), then the club would have to be seen to be 100% transparent or nobody would ever send their child there. As I’m sure the club hierarchy are well aware.