BERLIN — Bayern Munich has been reprimanded and fined by the Munich customs workplace for not paying its employees the minimal wage.

Munich’s most important customs workplace stated on Thursday a “well-known Munich soccer club” underpaid its employees for 5 years from November 2016 to 2021. Office spokesman Thomas Meister confirmed to The Associated Press that Bayern - Germany’s most profitable and richest membership - was the one underneath investigation.

The workplace is ordering Bayern to pay some 250,000 euros ($270,000) altogether together with late cost penalties and social safety funds that it evaded over the 5 years.

“The investigation found that the soccer club had not paid the minimum wage in the youth academy it operated. In addition, the club did not meet its obligation to record the working hours, or it did so incorrectly and incompletely,” the customs workplace stated.

It stated it consulted or evaluated “a large number of witnesses and material evidence” as a part of its investigation, and it discovered workers at Bayern’s youth participant campus had been paid 450 euros ($490) a month “although their actual scope of employment was much higher.”

At the time in Germany, a 450-euro-job, often known as “mini-job,” restricted a employee’s workload to marginal part-time employment and it didn't present any social safety for the worker. That fee has since elevated to 520 euros.

“Contrary to the contractual regulations and hours recorded - many more hours were worked than agreed, leading to the valid minimum wage not being paid and social security regulations being disregarded,” the customs workplace stated.

Bayern stated it by no means supposed to underpay its employees and it'll pay the shortfall to the federal treasury.

The Bavarian powerhouse stated it had taken “structural precautions” to keep away from paying lower than the minimal wage in future. The present minimal wage in Germany is 12 euros ($13) an hour.

Last yr, Bayern introduced pre-tax earnings of 17.1 million euros ($18.6 million) for the 2021-22 season. Wages had been the largest expense at 324.1 million ($352 million) for all employees, together with gamers and workers.

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