Broadcaster has been speaking at an employment tribunal over claims of unequal pay
Jeremy Vine was “gifted” his primetime Radio 2 show by
BBC management and handed opportunities that were not available to ambitious female presenters, according to the broadcaster Samira Ahmed, who is suing the BBC for £693,245 in lost earnings over claims of unequal pay.
Ahmed told an employment tribunal in central
London that she had been consistently underpaid over six years for her work on BBC’s Newswatch programme compared with Vine, despite at one point the pair having similar public profiles. She also claims that when she raised salary concerns with management she was told by a senior BBC executive that “the BBC doesn’t do equal pay”.