Benjamin Mendy, who now plays in France for FC Lorient, in Ligue 2, will be able to receive most of his unpaid salary, an employment tribunal in Manchester has ruled. The amount will have to be calculated by Benjamin Mendy and Manchester City or determined at a later hearing if they cannot agree.
According to the judgment, the footballer is “authorized to recover part but not all of the sums claimed”.
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When he was not in pre-trial detention, Benjamin Mendy was “ready and willing” to work but was “prevented from doing so”, Judge Joanne Dunlop said.
“In these circumstances, and in the absence of any authorization in the contract for the employer to withhold wages, he was entitled to be paid,” she added.
In January 2023, a court acquitted Benjamin Mendy of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. In July of the same year, in another trial, he was cleared of a seventh count of rape as well as a charge of attempted rape.
Manchester City stopped paying him his salary (a little over 600,000 euros per month) after his indictment, arguing that the judicial review accompanying the measure as well as his suspension by the English Football Federation no longer allowed him to exercise his footballer profession.
