RLPA lash out at NRL's 'disrespectful' salary cap news

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The Rugby League Players Association has deed retired astatine the NRL for the "inappropriate" timing of the announcement of the wage headdress increase.

The RLPA is successful negotiations with the NRL astir a caller corporate bargaining statement - negotiations the relation believes whitethorn present good person been undermined.

In a lengthy and scathing connection released precocious Friday, RLPA seat Dr Deidre Anderson lashed retired astatine the league, labelling the announcement "unprecedented" and "disrespectful", and said clubs were lone told of the determination minutes earlier it was made public.

The league connected Friday announced the NRL wage headdress would summation from $9.6 cardinal successful 2022 to $12.1 cardinal adjacent season.

The headdress for a club's apical 30 players volition emergence to a record-high $11.45 million, portion the improvement database volition summation from $240,000 to $650,000.

The NRL has besides decided the minimum wage for each antheral players successful a club's apical 30 squad volition summation to $120,000.

The NRLW's headdress has besides lifted to $884,000.

Anderson said the relation "received a 185-word fiscal proposal" connected Wednesday day that provided small item "on the afloat presumption and conditions of the agreement".

"Today's announcement has the imaginable to undermine the ongoing CBA negotiations and truthful the rights of players," it said.

"To denote caller wage caps for players without their statement and bypassing their relation is unprecedented and, to the champion of our knowledge, clubs were besides not provided with the details of the caller wage caps and subordinate outgo operation until astir 5 minutes earlier the ARLC's nationalist announcement."

NRL main enforcement Andrew Abdo told the Sydney Morning Herald the governing assemblage was inactive moving with the RLPA to finalise the CBA.

"The ARL Commission are taking a enactment position, we don't person to bash this, but we privation to supply certainty for contracting purposes, certainty for clubs, certainty for the players, and determination are grounds increases for the antheral and pistillate players, which is exciting."

But Anderson said the announcement does the opposite.

"For a governing assemblage to acceptable its ain wage headdress disrespects the full subordinate practice question and the value of corporate bargaining. Today's announcement goes against negotiating successful bully religion and lone damages the spot betwixt the players and the governing body," she said.

"The players person been acceptable and consenting to negociate the afloat presumption and conditions of their CBA for 12 months. It is not due for the players to beryllium rushed into agreeing to a fiscal connection 2 days earlier Christmas.

"Agreeing to this week's fiscal proposal, adjacent successful principle, would person created adjacent much uncertainty for the manufacture and players due to the fact that we would beryllium moving backwards and re-engineering presumption and conditions to a fig that has already been set."

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