BBC tries to wipe a clean slate for new boss

After giving pay rise to 700 or more female employees proceeding its equal pay scandal, the BBC has apparently been trying hard to clear the new boss, Tim Davie’s name by settling cases. According to a freedom of information request made by a former BBC employee named Caroline Barlow, she received £130,000 in an equal pay dispute. The BBC has tried to establish that all these cases aren’t correlated. Newswatch presenter Samira Ahmed successfully took the BBC to an employment tribunal to seek more than £700,000 in back pay after she was paid substantially less than Jeremy Vine for presenting an equivalent programme. According to The Guardian, the hearings were deeply embarrassing for the BBC, as internal emails about pay negotiations were made public.