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The nerve of her - a woman - asking for pay parity with people the nice middle class white fella, or the other nice middle class white fella eh?. Ffs, she has every right to seek equal pay IF that's the prime driver of her dispute.

However, its ITN, which isn't the nicest or fairest place to work by every account told to me in person - probably well into 20+ people in the last 4 years, many people who's opinions I give much weight.

That's the legally safe and fair summary of opinions.

It's a peculiar place.

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Indeed. This is a huge issue across the corporate world in the UK and has been for some time. Historically it’s been women and those in minority groups. Increasingly it’s now people from a ‘low socio economic’ background (basically your parents were regarded as working class) who are now rapidly promoted to make a company look like it’s doing wonderful things in the social mobility sphere, but in reality the pay gap between those in that category and traditional middle class professionals is widening. It’s shameful. Power to her if she uses this opportunity to raise some of the toxic chronic biases and work practices that are endemic in this country.

We probably need to get this back on topic so from a pres view - she’s lucky to go. For me, we’re back to 5 News slipping into a drab product only produced because it has to be. Given the owners, and their competitor/fellow US media giant’s announcements in NZ, it’s fair to speculate that the big guys are no longer fussed about making high quality, visually appealing news.