17-08-2023, 07:15 PM
Employee relations at BBC News don't sound great at the moment. Whether it's Newsnight investigating one of their own with Huw Edwards (and in very poor taste, putting the report to air on the same night as it's announced he's been admitted to hospital in a mental health crisis),
or this dispute over the hiring process of the 5 chief presenters, only for one of them to leave a few months later as they are not happy in the role.
And then the ongoing saga of 5 former presenters deliberately being kept off air on full pay as management can't decide either how to let them go, presumably without legal action, or what role to give them on the new News Channel, presumably at a pay level the presenters will be willing to accept.
or this dispute over the hiring process of the 5 chief presenters, only for one of them to leave a few months later as they are not happy in the role.
And then the ongoing saga of 5 former presenters deliberately being kept off air on full pay as management can't decide either how to let them go, presumably without legal action, or what role to give them on the new News Channel, presumably at a pay level the presenters will be willing to accept.