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Four pistillate quality presenters person agreed a colony successful a quality with the BBC implicit claims including enactment and property discrimination.
Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone and Kasia Madera claimed they mislaid their roles connected the BBC News Channel pursuing a "rigged" recruitment exercise.
The BBC has insisted its exertion process was "rigorous and fair".
The presenters declined to comment, but BBC News understands a colony has been reached with nary admittance of liability, and a three-week tribunal to perceive the claims, which had been owed to commencement connected Monday, volition present not spell ahead.
The quality stems from July 2022, erstwhile the BBC announced plans to merge its home and planetary quality channels, resulting successful a recruitment process for 5 main presenters.
The women claimed that up of the announcement, the BBC's channels elder exertion privately assured 4 different presenters - 2 men and 2 younger women - their jobs were safe.
"We were enactment done a pre-determined occupation exertion process successful February 2023," the presenters said successful tribunal documents during a preliminary proceeding past year.
As a result, they said they were not recruited arsenic main presenters and were alternatively offered roles arsenic correspondents, which successful effect meant a demotion and a wage cut.
The presenters called the recruitment process "a sham" exercise, "where our jobs were closed adjacent though the redundancies were not genuine arsenic the enactment inactive exists".
They argued they were discriminated against due to the fact that of their enactment and age, were victimised due to the fact that of national rank and for bringing erstwhile adjacent wage claims, and suffered harassment.
The corp said each candidates for the main presenter roles were taxable to the aforesaid just exertion process, which progressive an exertion interrogation past applicable assessments.
It said astatine slightest 5 different applicants scored much highly than the 4 women and were truthful appointed, based connected an "objective assessment".
All 4 women had besides alleged they had not been paid arsenic compared with an equivalent antheral presenter since February 2020.
But astatine a two-day proceeding past May, the BBC successfully argued the women had nary grounds to bring an adjacent wage claim.
The justice ruled that the adjacent wage assertion could not spell up due to the fact that Croxall, McVeigh, Giannone and Madera had antecedently agreed adjacent wage settlements with the corporation. The women aboriginal appealed against that ruling.
They were each disconnected enactment connected afloat wage from March 2023, and started to spell backmost to enactment the pursuing March.
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