IFJ 05 March 2021
Equal pay: “700 BBC women have had pay rises since my case”, Samira Ahmed
On 24 February 2020, the London Central Employment Tribunal ruled that female journalist Samira Ahmed’s hosting work on BBC’s Newswatch programme was equal to that of her male colleague, Jeremy Vine, on Points of View and that therefore she was entitled to equal pay. We asked her about the impact of this historic settlement a year after the verdict, and how BBC’s payment structures have changed since then. Samira Ahmed
1. What convinced you to lodge a claim against the BBC for equal pay?
I’d known from the moment I took up the Newswatch presenter post in 2012 that I was being underpaid and had tried to get this corrected with the BBC, internally and quietly. After the public publication of the first list of the most highly paid BBC presenters in 2017 I knew the gap with my male comparator was much bigger than I’d previously imagined. I raised an official equal pay g
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 5:42 pm
“The February 24, 2021, resolution by 47 senior police
and government officials in the Cordillera Region calling
for the notorious ‘Oplan Tokhang’ to be deployed against
‘known left-leaning personalities in the government,
media, and other entities’ demonstrates that the Duterte
government is brazenly defiant of its human rights
obligations”, said Mr Peter Murphy of the International
Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines
(ICHRP).
This Resolution was made at the same time
that
Justice Secretary Guevarra was telling the United
Nations Human Rights Council that “the PH strongly
emphasizes its legal and judicial system, its domestic
accountability mechanisms are functioning as they
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From cub reporting to finding the love of my life: a look back on 40 years at the Leader
Henry Bauress, who retired on February 8 after four decades in journalism, reflects on his career
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Earlier this month, I formally hung up my boots on full-time paid journalism, most of it with the Leinster Leader newspaper. I write that carefully because curiosity and a love of writing are in the blood and will continue to be so in the period I will loosely call ‘retirement’.
The opportunity and expectation that I would not have to wear a shirt and tie was not low on my priorities as I considered my future as a youth.
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