By P Gosselin on 25. October 2023
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Not only politicians, but also companies are starting to get hysterical when it to comes to climate. There are now drastic wage cuts if employees drive or eat meat.
Germany’s APOLLO NEWS here reports that soccer club VfL Osnabrück is now “penalizing its employees with climate fines.”
“Based on an individual CO₂ footprint calculated by the club, deductions are made from their salaries as a penalty for climate-unfriendly behavior,” reports the German site.
As it’s probably a dream of many people to be employed by a professional sports team, the club will probably get away with it. Unhappy employees can be easily replaced.
But in the current environment of a severe skilled workers shortage, other companies may be extremely hesitant to enact such a draconian and personally intrusive policy. It also likely violates German labor law. In any case, VfL Osnabrück does show just how loony the climate craze is getting.
According to the APOLLO site: “The soccer club calculates the amount of salary that is deducted based on things like how far its employees travel to work or how much meat they consume.”
According to the VfL Osnabrück site: “Common good clause: VfL employees compensate for professional CO₂ emissions.”
Yes, in its employment contracts with the workers, VfL Osnabrück has a public welfare clause which states the employee pledges “to actively support the club’s orientation toward the common good” and also contains “a mandatory reference to the compensation of occupational CO₂ emissions.”
According to APOLLO, VfL Osnabrück “surveys” the “Co2 footprint” of each employee, which is based on, among other things, the length of the commute and eating habits.
“Compensation takes place by deducting the corresponding monetary value directly from the employee’s salary.” VfL Osnabrück calls what amounts to a penalty tax “a direct monetary incentive to change behavior.”
The club mentions again and again that it’s all about protecting our grandchildren’s future.
When asked by German national daily Die Welt, the club refused to provide the exact wording of the employment clause, citing “confidentiality and secrecy”.
Hat-tip: Alexander Raue.
I wonder what happens to a peak athlete that stops eating meat. 😉
Maybe they become a vegetable.
I don’t get it. Is this a word-play?
Check. 🙂
In professional sport, there’s a lot at steak in every game.
As you are ignorant, protein is required for healing after you push your body to the limit and the additional calories from fat are also beneficial. Plant sources might provide it but you would need a knowledgable full time cook to provide that type of diet and I am not sure anybody would want to eat it.
No, but you are.
Well, Hitler became a vegetarian, then he died.
But wasn’t it lead poisoning that killed him?
He was suffering from acute cyanide poisoning when he also experienced localized acute lead poisoning. If you take Pb(CN)2 you die of cyanide poisoning. I doubt at this point we can tell which potentially lethal event won the race. Based on COVID19 death attribution logic, it is clear he died with, and therefore of, vegetarianism.
Unless somebody else pulled the trigger, it was “lead” poisoning that did him in.
of a self-inflicted wound
They end up popping 26 pills a day and very unhealthy
Vegan – an old Indian word that means lousy hunter
“Honestly guv, the car belongs to the girlfriend and I only eat locusts when she has steak.”
Collective punishment for you then, and points docked in your green digital credit rating.
I wonder what happens to a peak athlete that stops eating meat.
What do you want to bet that it won’t apply to the actual players, just the staff?
The “axis of evil”, Russia/China/Iran, etc.,, happily will continue to eat meat, as they have always done, while the woke West will be feasting on various insects.
This likely will not affect the lucrative business of “fine dining” in Europe, because the well off, including future well off tourists, would never give up a juicy steak, if the alternative is insects
Collectivism on steroids. Weird seeing a country have a total mental breakdown. (Not to scoff at mental health issues, but how else can you look at this societal nuttery?) It’s like they are ignoring the accumulated knowledge of humanity.
It’s never been the same since the far left National Socialist Workers Party ruined it in the 1930’s
The National Socialist Workers Party was embraced by a good portion of the country… seems the ruin was already there and came from another earlier direction.
(Cause & effect, or effect & cause (or affect leading to perceived cause))
According to Stern the ““Common good clause” is voluntary – They get more Money if they sign it, and the amount of additional money payed out is related to the Climate friendly behavior.
It’s a Bonus.
https://www.stern.de/sport/fussball/vfl-osnabrueck-zahlt-mitarbeitern–die-sich-klimabewusst-verhalten–mehr-33947214.html
WTF is “climate friendly behaviour” !
Not peeing in the sink, full o’ pots.
An empty sink is OK????
Yes, you can pee in your grandmothers sink if you do it as a Climate Savior (and don’t waste water rinsing the sink out after).
Anybody that hasn’t peed in a sink didn’t grow up in a one-bathroom house in the northern climates.
No juicy grants for you dummy.
“WTF is “climate friendly behaviour” !”
Remembering not to breathe out.
And they say those fit footballers dropping dead on the field had a vaxx problem.
Remember to say hello to all the little critters that inhabit the woods and the trees and the grasses….commune with nature….seems climate friendly to me.
It’s dystopian control based on a problem that doesn’t exist, it’s how a cult operates
Definitely cult…..
Dystopian is the word of the day.
Just wait for the Tax Office to dock their share.
Better to off the Bonus in Carbon Certificate paper Options. Oh wait – the Tax Office is already onto that.
Does Griff have a new handle?
Probably not this guy because Griff would always mention melting Arctic ice in his rants.
Griff would try to sound reasonable, even when he saying really stupid things.
So it’s nothing but meaningless virtue signaling. The team pays the players up front for their fines, then fines them. The players don’t lose any money, the team can deduct the fines as players’ salaries (not exactly sure how corporate or sports taxes work in Europe) and then can signal to the world how righteous and green they are. Makes one want to start to hate soccer if they don’t already.
Sorry, Murrican luddite mistake. Meant (European) football, not soccer.
I wonder how long their transfer list is.
German companies are beginning to have trouble getting the workers they need. link Because they haven’t been having enough children, they haven’t produced enough workers.
A company that reduces the size of their labor pool, because of a stupid policy, in a tightening labor market, is a stupid company. I wouldn’t work for them, and I wouldn’t invest in them.
Aren’t the Germans importing loads of fresh workers? Uneducated, non-german-speaking, culturally hostile immigrants will fix that problem.
They could take a negative lesson from the French and not do what they did. France’s immigrants are always revolting. (Of course, it’s France where everyone is always revolting.)
IMHO, the Danes do a much better job of integrating their immigrants. link
If the Germans do it right, their country will still be recognizable in a hundred years, even if the majority skin color is somewhat darker.
Just don’t mention the war.
I would shred a contract like that, not sign 😀
Maybe they are trying to change an “also ran” club, into a “never ran” one !
At least they are not being told to “tuck” their “tackle”….. yet !
Wokeism => downfall. !
If they got rid of meat, they’d have nothing to tuck.
This is a wind up, right?
Trying to block a German from his/her meat eating habit is on a par with trying to block a Hollywood screen star from long runs of, erm….. snow. 🙂
Its is Osnabrück,where the maggot burger factory is, not Bavaria where Minister Söder said we will not eat maggot muesli!
These people are quite, quite bonkers. Will they be playing games on Teams? They are scheduled to play in Paderborn, Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Rostock, Hannover ad nauseam.
Are they also unaware of UEFAs plans for the Euros? Really?
21 October 2021
“More games, more countries, more travel: Does European football care about its climate impact?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58595026
And a little more recently…
“More teams, more games – and more flights. Next season will see men’s European club football expand further, with an additional 177 fixtures across Uefa’s three major tournaments – and with that comes an increasing impact on the planet.
BBC Sport research suggests the inflated fixture list could lead to teams and fans flying about two billion air miles across the 2024-25 campaign, up from 1.5 billion in 2022-23.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67159156
Presumably, VfL Osnabruck will be preventing their ’employees’ from participating at the Euros and the World Cup.
Given where sport is heading these ‘drastic wage cuts’ are nothing short of vindictive.
Not to mention the 2030 World Cup to be played on THREE continents in SIX countries, and this wasn’t even an idea from the idiots at FIFA but the continental associations.
England held the competition once, in 1966.
Since then Mexico and Germany have held it twice and they are going back for a second time (for some games) to the USA, Spain, Uruguay, and Argentina in 2026 and 2030.
Italy have also held the competition twice.
England (or the UK) already has the infrastructure to hold the whole competition with very little travelling involved.
I’m not accusing FIFA of Anglophobia, per se. It’s just that UK national football organisations are leagues behind most other places in making use of the embedded corruption with FIFA.
When the last World Cup was announced to be played in Qatar, people in the game were almost speechless. Qatar, football nowhere. It was to be played in closed desert-stadiums, in winter, ruining the domestic season for most countries.
The former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who never played the (football) game, was an absolute legend at milking the cow, yet he never went to prison..
I doubt anything much has changed. It is so cheap to take a few African delegates out for lunch and let them drive back home in the Mercedes you arrived in. Each of those football minnows gets a vote, just like England, Italy, Germany, etc.
All hail the men in blazers
Sport officiating is just as bad in the US, but at least the officials have to dress as convicts.
Perhaps they will form a new league with Dale Vince’s vegan Forest Green Rovers.
https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/forest-green-rovers-environment-green-league-one-dale-vince
The club isn’t in the position to play whatever international games. They are a second league team.
Their players might still play for their own national side….
Presumably, VfL Osnabruck will be preventing their ’employees’ from participating at the Euros and the World Cup.
It isn’t just the leagues.
Probably one, for Kosovo.
What does VfL Osnabrück do with the money it has deducted from the wages and salaries of its employees?
As for its being “voluntary”, how many people do they employ who refuse to sign it? Vee haf vays ov making you folunteer.
I was pleased to note that Taylor Swift and her new beau went and had a slap up dinner in an Argentinian steakhouse. Very good too. Probably the first meat I ever consumed was Argentinian asado as a toddler learning kitchen Spanish in BA.
To my knowledge, I’ve never tasted chimichurri but it sounds delicious.
Anyone who capitulates to these idiotic diktats deserves the dystopia – if you sign up to being treated like this, then you have no complaints
Personally, I’m happy to have a carbon footprint 96% below that of Attenborough, Kerry, Gore et al, it makes me a far better human than them
“Anyone who capitulates to these idiotic diktats deserves the dystopia “
In a sane world where the demos does indeed have a voice that would be fair comment. But if we take the example of an illusory democracy like the UK, where the parties decide who can even be a candidate and Mr Speaker protects the members.
After our expenses fiasco parliament promise the demos the right of recall. True, they did deviate from the standard 5% signature threshold to 10%, but it was at least a chink of democracy. But then parliament thought again and decided that Mr Speaker would be the one who could authorise a petition for recall. And so, unless Mr Speaker decides to initiate a recall you have to put up with what you’ve got until the next election.
They capitulate, we get the crap.
I can’t imagine this atrocity lasting very long. If the Scholz administration sticks to it, AfD wins next year’s election. If they ban AfD it has to mean civil war.
The ‘common good’ has been used throughout the centuries to persecute and murder minorities and people who were deemed ‘deplorable’. It is the hallmark of a fascist mindset.
Is it linked to Common Purpose, one of the far left militant arms of the UK Labour Party?
Its is Osnabrück,where the maggot burger factory is, not Bavaria where Minister Söder said we will not eat maggot muesli!
Looks like the football club wants business for the vegan maggot factory and restaurants there.
I wonder who has shares in the club?
These maggot burgers were in REWE, seem to have crawled to EDEKA.
Balderdash.
I am confused. A soccer club where thousands come to a stadium and players run around for a hour or so is OK but a lowly employee is penalized for some mythical CO2 story. Maybe too much Steinhager.
How on earth do they plan on enforcing the not eating meat part of this deal? Mileage I can see, as an employer would know where their workers live and therefore how far they must travel to get to work. But as long as a worker avoided bringing a hotdog (or in this case, a bratwurst) for lunch, their employer would have to take their word as to what they eat. In other words, don’t let the boss catch you chowing down on some pork schnitzel for lunch!
But yes, this is just another way to cripple the labor market, not unlike the covid shot nonsense here in the US and Canada. Many employers here (especially in healthcare and first responders) are still suffering the consequences of driving good workers away because they refused the shots.
Regular blood tests to verify that they are properly anemic…
What are the odds that the contract applies to the owners/ board of directors?
No meat and no heat:
Log burner owners told they face £300 fine under new rules
“Experts are warning log burner owners about a ‘nasty surprise’ they could be having – a big fine. As it’s getting a lot colder many people will be looking at firing up their burners – but this year a change to the law has come in.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has introduced new regulations – and if your stove emits more than 3g of smoke an hour a fine of around £300 could be imposed. Households who use wood-burning stoves in pollution hotspots could face £300 fines and even a criminal record, as the government vows to improve England’s air quality.”
Full article: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/log-burner-owners-told-they-face-300-fine-under-new-rules/ar-AA1iOtfm
How exactly do they propose to measure 3 grams of smoke per hour? Is there anyone with two brain cells they can rub together at DEFRA?
How exactly do they propose to measure 3 grams of smoke per hour?
Believe me, if they are going to implement the regulation, they’ve already determined how they will measure 3g/hr. Basically, irrational assumptions and parameterization. they will probably say something like “research has shown that any emissions greater than 3g/hr produces visible smoke. Therefore, any wood burner that produces visible smoke will be assumed to be emitting over 3g/hr and subject to fines and a criminal record.”
“How exactly do they propose to measure 3 grams of smoke per hour?”
They didn’t say they would do it accurately.
A catalytic insert on the exhaust stack is said to stop the heavy smoke from a wood burner.
They’ve been in use in my area for several decades. An uncle of mine was a stone mason
and specialized in fireplaces that were clean burning and when heated kept the house warm
for hours. He learned from a guy that was of Scandinavian decent. His log construction and
stone fireplaces were considered masterpieces. The current production I’ve seen is not the
same. A woodgas boiler is about as clean as you can get in this area today, no visible smoke
when in use. I use mine to run a radiant slab system with baseboard on the upper floors.
No fair jury is going to enforce this.
Which is why they need to pre-select the juries, to ensure that the proper verdicts are always reached.
Hey, Boss, what’s that noise coming down the street?
The WEF elites have made clear that they intend to expand this sort of thing. Many places forbid religious discrimination, and there some of you can defend yourselves by pointing to 1 Timothy Chapter 4, verses 1-3, which say that forbidding others to eat meat is a doctrine of devils.
Are BUGS considered “meat?” This is getting sooooooooooooo confusing.
Is there a compensatory bonus for eating insects? (Maybe not till now)
Clowns. Osnabruck was the place of one of the biggest concentration camps during WWII. I bet they still keep all it’s facilities in top notch conditions.
The Decline of Europe continues.
Of course I don’t know how things work in Germany but if it were in the US, I can see it now plastered all over every TV 24/7. Have you worked for a company who docked your pay for what you eat or drive? Call this number now you may be entitled to substantial compensation. Companies knew it wasn’t right to take your money yet did it anyway. Call now to see how much money they owe you.
Expect this to be proposed by warmunists in the United Sates very soon, and mandated by the California legislature within 2 years.
next up, armbands for meat eaters …
They’ve gone round the bend in Germany. This is so silly and juvenile.
Germany has a very generous welfare system. I would not work for VfL Osnabrück. I would collect benefits and eat a generous amount of meat multiple times of day. And I would go to Stadion an der Bremer Brücke on every home game and eat a large Wiener Snitzel on a stick right behind the team bench!