The U.S. women's national team and U.S. Soccer Federation reached a settlement in their long-running lawsuit over working conditions on Tuesday.
The parties filed in court a proposed settlement in which U.S. Soccer agreed to implement various policies regarding working conditions for the women's team related to hotel accommodation, staffing, venues and travel.
"I believe our approach helped us reach this agreement and demonstrates the commitment of U.S. Soccer’s new leadership to find a new way forward with the USWNT," U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone said in a statement.
"This settlement is good news for everyone and I believe will serve as a springboard for continued progress."
The agreement was filed in federal court in California on Tuesday. It means the USSF can put this portion of the dispute behind it while the USWNT can focus more on the equal pay portion of the long-running lawsuit.
“We are pleased that the USWNT players have fought for — and achieved — long overdue equal working conditions,” said Molly Levinson, a spokeswoman for the players, in a statement. “We now intend to file our appeal to the court’s decision, which does not account for the central fact in this case that women players have been paid at lesser rates than men who do the same job.
“We remain as committed as ever to our work to achieve the equal pay that we legally deserve.”
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; editing by Clare Fallon)
