'I love the BBC, I'm really glad it's been resolved' Presenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay
Media playback is unsupported on your devicePresenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.
Ahmed had told the tribunal, which ended in November, that she"could not understand how pay for me, a woman, could be so much lower than Jeremy Vine, a man, for presenting very similar programmes and doing very similar work". "The attempts at humour came from the script. Jeremy Vine read the script from the autocue. He read it in the tone in which it was written. If it told him to roll his eyes he did. It did not require any particular skill or experience to do that."
In other words, the claim that Vine had greater profile, that Entertainment requires different skills to News, and that Points of View reaches more people didn't persuade the Tribunal that the difference is pay was justified. But its journey on this issue, where it has sought to set a national example, is only just beginning.
It was"an incredibly brave decision on Samira's part" to bring the case to tribunal, Stanistreet told reporters."You couldn't get a more emphatic win, a resounding victory," she said.
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