The BBC has lost a sex discrimination equal pay claim launched by host Samira Ahmed.
Ahmed, a journalist, writer and broadcaster, had claimed that she was underpaid for her work hosting the BBC show. She was paid £440 per episode of the audience feedback show compared to the £3,000 per episode Jeremy Vine was paid, arguing that she was owned almost £700,000 in back pay because of the difference.
The BBC had claimed the two performed "very different roles," but the judgment, announced Friday following a tribunal that ended in November and was found unanimously in favor of Ahmed, asserted that: "Her work onunder section 65 of the Equality Act 2010." During the tribunal, Ahmed said 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."
In a statement following the judgment, the BBC said: "We have always believed that the pay of Samira and Jeremy Vine was not determined by their gender. Presenters – female as well as male - had always been paid more on
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