BBC discriminates against straight WHITE MEN.
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I bet that you, like me, will not be shocked to read that the BBC’s own numbers have finally said the quiet part out loud.
In almost every pay band the corporation operates, WHITE staff earn less, on the median, than their black, Asian and minority-ethnic colleagues.
Yes, the BBC is happily operating an anti-White pay policy!
This pay gap is not some sort of minor rounding up error. In the lowest band it reaches 13.2% in favour of ethnic-minority employees; among senior leaders it is still 5.35 the same way. Only one of seven scales shows white median pay ahead, and then by a derisory 0.6%.
These aren’t the ethnicity figures the BBC likes to advertise. Those still show a tiny 0.7% median advantage for white staff, but that’s almost entirely because white employees remain more numerous in the very highest grades. Inevitably they have been there the longest.
Once you take a look inside of the pay grades—the only comparison that approximates equal work—the pattern reverses. The same annual report records that women in senior leadership roles are paid 1.4% more than senior men, that disabled managers out-earn able-bodied ones by 7.5% and that the highest-paid LGBTQ+ employees take home 8.8%t more than their non-LGBTQ+ peers. It’s as woke as you might imagine!
For as long as I can remember the BBC has treated any pay difference that runs in the other direction as evidence of structural bias requiring urgent correction, targets, and acts of public contrition. When the difference runs this way it is re-described as the benign result of “representation,” “job families,” or the “success of diversity schemes”. The BBC is practising a form of discrimination that it likes.
A pompous State broadcaster that lectures the country on equality has produced within its own career bands a consistent wage premium for the characteristics it has spent a decade declaring under-represented! How ridiculous is that?
When you set targets for ethnicity, sex, disability and who people sleep with, then reward managers on whether they hit them, the pay will surely follow. That’s just how it works. The BBC’s own report says the big change this year was more ethnic-minority staff getting into the higher bands. The money inside those bands moved with them.
Nobody seems that bothered about the gaps that now run the other way. There is no plan to sort the 13.2% advantage minority staff have in the bottom band. There is nothing on the senior gaps that favour women, disabled staff and LGBTQ+ people either.
They still drone on about “fair, clear and competitive” pay. Fair, in practice, means better money for the groups they’ve decided to favour once they’re through the door. A normal company can argue that out with its shareholders. The BBC can’t. Everyone with a TV theoretically is forced to pay for it, and it still pretends it speaks for the people footing the bill.
On its own figures, that now includes a premium for not being white, and in plenty of senior jobs a premium for not being male, able-bodied or straight.
The BBC has completely junked meritocracy. It now rewards every group but white straight males and congratulates itself on it! What a truly RACIST organisation.
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