Presenter was paid much less than Jeremy Vine as she was working on ‘relatively niche’ service, says BBC
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.
Ahmed arrived at the central
London tribunal to give evidence on Wednesday accompanied by supporters including fellow BBC presenters Jane Garvey, Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, in the first major employment tribunal case since the corporation become embroiled in the gender pay row.