Posted on 05/14/2019 3:39:44 AM PDT by C19fan
Nike contracts for its sponsored athletes have financially penalized women for decreases in performance while they were pregnant. The sports giant admitted to past 'performance-based payment reductions' in a statement on Monday, after the New York Times published an op-ed by professional track star Alysia Montaño. Montaño grabbed attention in 2014 for running in the US Track and Field Championships in Sacramento while eight months pregnant to national praise, but she didn't much have a choice as she private struggled to keep money coming in. 'Sports take a heavy toll on the human body, and sponsors accommodate this with time off for injuries. But rarely do they offer enough time off to have a child,' Montaño wrote in the opinion piece.
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They will.
...Nike admits they PENALIZED female athletes when they got pregnant by cutting their [tr]...
The last word could have been worse!
I hate anime, but I hope not. If they were paying bonuses based on performance and the women weren’t performing — even for perfectly understandable reasons — then what’s the problem?
Sorry — NIKE, not anime. Stupid auto-correct. LOL.
Chinese sneaker importer. Rough week, Nike.
What part of “performance” do you not understand?
“Supersize me.”
Oops, wrong brand.
Nike plays Americans for marketing driven Pavlovian dogs, who respond to their psy ops branding bell sound.
Yeah. Tiger Woods got dumped when he messed up the brand.
Another case of Liberals doing EXACTLY
what they are always accusing Conservatives of doing.
If you can’t compete at the highest level why should you still get the highest pay?
They did not ‘penalize’ them for being pregnant- they adjusted their pay based on poorer performance.
I hate liberal writers...
“If they were paying bonuses based on performance and the women weren’t performing — even for perfectly understandable reasons — then what’s the problem?”
Entitlement America.
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