Samira presently receives ₤ 465 per episode while Jeremy is paid ₤ 3000 for his. “On the back of my BBC ID card are written the BBC values that include ‘we respect each other and celebrate our variety’ as well as ‘we take pride in providing top quality and value for money’, she exposed in a statement last year.
“I just ask why the BBC thinks I deserve just one-sixth of the value of the work of a male for doing a really comparable job.”
Samira Ahmed has won an equal pay insurance claim versus the BBC. The Newswatch presenter said that she must be paid the same salary as Points of View’s Jeremy Vine, and also the failure to do so was a result of sex discrimination.
Despite BBC’s claim that Samira and also Jeremy were refraining similar work, a judge at the London Central Employment Tribunal has ruled that the network had “failed to rebut the presumption of sex discrimination that emerged when she proved that her job was like his work”.