«Breaking News» Gender pay probe into BBC launched over claim some women do not 'receive equal wages for equal work'

The Equality And Human Rights Commission has launched an investigation into BBC pay practices over alleged discrimination against women.

It has been claimed 'some women at the organisation have not received equal pay for equal work'.

The probe was sparked by complaints that female employees were being paid less than their male colleagues.

In July 2018,  more than 40 female journalists at the BBC wrote a letter to Tony Hall demanding equal pay, including Question Time presenter Fiona Bruce and Victoria Derbyshire.   

It came after an annual report, detailing how much the BBC's top paid stars were taking home.

It was revealed presenter Chris Evans made between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017, while Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000.

The report revealed all of the top seven earners were male.

The probe is being launched into women's pay at the BBC over claims they are underpaid compared to their male counterparts

New Question Time host Fiona Bruce is among those who have called for a review into pay 

After reviewing materials from the BBC the watchdog said it is confident that is the case. 

A statement on the EHRC website said: 'The BBC has voluntarily provided us with a large amount of information about its pay policies and practices.

'After looking at all of the information, we suspect that some women at the organisation have not received equal pay for equal work.

'We are using our powers under the Equality Act to open an investigation, which will look at whether BBC staff experienced unlawful pay discrimination from 1 January 2016.

'We will look at formal and informal pay complaints raised with the BBC by staff to decide if there has been unlawful pay discrimination against women and whether complaints have been adequately resolved.

'We hope to finish our investigation by the end of 2019. We will publish a report once the investigation is done, setting out our findings, any action we have taken and recommendations for the BBC.' 

Victoria Derbyshire is one of the women who has called for change 

Damian Collins, chairman of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said in a statement: 'I am pleased that the Equality and Human Rights Commission will now be investigating the matter of equal pay at the BBC.

'The Select Committee set out its concerns in our recent report on the BBC that they had failed in their obligations to ensure that men and women were being paid equally for work of equal value.

'Having taken evidence from many women at the BBC, the Committee is also concerned that there remain a number of outstanding grievance cases with no clear end date in sight for their resolution.

'It is right that the EHRC will not just be reviewing whether there were discriminatory pay policies at the BBC, but also the effectiveness of the system for grievances to be heard fairly.

'This has clearly been a very distressing time for many BBC employees, and we would all like to see these matters brought to a successful conclusion.'

In a statement, the BBC said it is going through 'significant reform' as bosses said the review was 'welcomed'. 

The statement continued: 'We are confident that the BBC can provide that assurance and indeed go beyond and demonstrate our commitment to be a model for others to follow in this area as a result of our reform programme, although of course we will learn any lessons from the EHRC's work as we continue to deliver change.

'The EHRC's terms of reference acknowledge the programme of reforms the BBC has been undertaking. If they had worked with us prior to our reforms, they would have found a very different organisation. Some of the criticism levelled at us over this period was very fair as change was overdue. We believe our pay structures are now fair, transparent to staff and stand very positive comparison with other organisations.

'Over the past two years we have actively encouraged people to come forward with questions over their pay. Many of these have been routine queries, and we have now resolved more than 85% of them. We also commissioned independent reviews which did not find systemic issues of pay discrimination but, along with work we'd already been doing, identified improvements to our pay structures which we have been making.

'As we have already acknowledged, we have some historic equal pay cases. We are profoundly sorry for this. We regret the time it has taken to resolve all of the questions, but some of these are complex and have not been straightforward to resolve. We are determined to make progress on the remaining ones.'

 

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