The trickle of Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) in Spanish professional sports continues unabated due to the economic setback that the coronavirus pandemic is causing for clubs. Tonight, in a two for one, the Baskonia-Alavés Group announced a file "by force majeure" that will affect all of its employees, including its two professional sports teams.

The ERTE, therefore, affects both clubs equally, as well as the workers of the parent company. Alavés is the fourth Primera soccer team that joins this measure, after Barcelona, ​​Espanyol and Atlético. In the case of Baskonia, it is the fifth in the ACB League, as Fuenlabrada, Zaragoza, Barcelona and Manresa previously did. In both leagues, there will be more records in the coming days.

"The termination of this unwanted decision by management will take place at the moment when the authorities allow the activity to return. The entity has duly informed all those affected and has made itself available to them to solve all the doubts that have about it, "explains the company led by Josean Querejeta.

Nine years together

In its statement, the Baskonia-Alavés Group also "wishes to thank the understanding and collaboration of all the personnel affected by this ERTE". Society has not gone into detail about the temporary salary cuts that its workers will suffer nor if they will be proportionally the same in all cases.

Since Querejeta came to the rescue in 2011 from a dying Alavés, the two great sports clubs in Vitoria share a corporate structure. Unlike what usually happens, the basketball team is the one who exercises the leadership of the society, although Alavés finances Baskonia annually with 4% of its budget.

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