The BBC has said its rolling news channel is a “relatively niche” service that airs little-watched programmes, in an attempt to convince an employment tribunal that presenter Samira Ahmed should not receive more than £500,000 in back pay for alleged equal pay discrimination.
SamiraAhmedUK Just merge newswatchbbc and points of view into one programme
You go girl.....
Eh, I dunno. Twitter tells me theJeremyVine has 700K followers, while SamiraAhmedUK has 50K followers One of these fishes seems to be bigger than the other in terms of reach and influence
'Ahmed is bringing the case against the BBC on the basis that she was paid £440 an episode for presenting Newswatch since 2012, at a time when her male equivalent at the broadcaster, Jeremy Vine, was paid £3,000 an episode for presenting Points of View.'
Equality is the way forward.................. Hopefully we will get there one day
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