By AFPMore by this AuthorSUVAFiji Rugby said contracted players and staff had agreed to pay cuts of 40 percent Monday as part of a cost-cutting drive to remain viable during the COVID-19 pandemic. The union said staffers were also being told to use their accrued leave as rugby remains in hiatus across the Pacific nation, which is in lockdown in a bid to contain the virus. Chief executive John O'Connor said the union's physical headquarters, Rugby House in Suva, had also been closed with a skeleton staff working from home to maintain operations. O'Connor said that if the crisis continued, Fiji Rugby would consider leave without pay and "further drastic reductions", which he did not detail. AdvertisementO'Connor said the austerity measures had been made after consultation with World Rugby, which funds the union's high performance unit.

Source: Daily Nation April 06, 2020 05:26 UTC