Samira Ahmed’s win in sex-based equal pay declare from BBC opens a can of worms for an trade that works on title recognition

BBC’s Samira Ahmed earned her chops in journalism after an excellent training and a string of difficult jobs. However now she’s received a intercourse equality declare for being paid lower than a male counterpart – and one thing is off concerning the case.

A part of the disturbance is the actually unseemly dialogue of the massive salaries that the individuals who work for the BBC earn, when that cash pouring into their financial institution accounts really comes from the licence payers who fund the nationwide broadcaster.

Whether or not Ahmed is paid £440 per episode for Newswatch, or Jeremy Vine earns £three,000 per episode of Factors of View makes no distinction to an unemployed single mom in Hull. It is merely an incredible amount of cash for studying from an autocue on a programme which they assist to fund.

In the meantime, if the viewer hasn’t stumped up the necessary licence payment of £150 for the sheer pleasure of watching the BBC, they threat going to jail.

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So quite than moan about pay disparities, it could be a much better train to make sure that the BBC creates programmes delivering the very best worth for cash by spending cash there quite than on creating an meeting line of egos, all trying to succeed in over their colleagues on the greasy pole of payslips.

Certain, I get the sexual discrimination argument and agree that if women and men are doing the identical job, at Tesco for example, then after all they need to get the identical wage.

However on the planet of leisure and celeb, who’s to say what worth one ‘character’ has over one other? Ought to Dwayne Johnson’s physique double earn the identical quantity as he does from making a movie?

Perhaps the difficulty ought to be put to a phone-in. The query being, “Which title do you recognise from tv: Samira Ahmed or Jeremy Vine?”

I might stick my neck out right here that Vine would prime that ballot and it has nothing to do with gender.

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Whereas Ahmed’s journalism profession has taken her all over the world, it has not given her the identical title recognition that Jeremy Vine, who additionally started in journalism, has developed since he shifted profession considerably into gentle leisure.

The BBC’s bonkers argument that Factors of View required somebody with a “glint of their eye” was nonsense from the beginning however perhaps they simply did not wish to offend Samira Ahmed by telling her that these individuals who didn’t watch BBC information programmes would don’t know who she was.

Anyway, that is not how the choose noticed it and determined in her favor. As for the declare for £700,000 in back-pay, that is nonetheless up for resolution.

Paradoxically, if a profile increase was wanted, then this tribunal case has been an actual shot within the arm for Samira Ahmed’s profession.

The sky is now the restrict!

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