BBC - Huw Edwards

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To think that the BBC is rotten to the core?

No, I think many powerful men are though

No more or less than any other institution.

he was innocent until guilty

Its another nail in the coffin.

I'm only just catching up on the news as been busy and distracted past few days but am surprised. Perhaps I shouldn't be.

Allegedly, the BBC paid him 200k during his period of suspension, and after they knew he was going to be charged.

It really doesn’t look good.

well they took legal advice
what do you expect any company to do?
sack you while awaiting a charge?
what about if you werent guilty?

Our system works on innocence until guilty if companies stop paying before trial the thousands found not guilty would sue it's no different for the BBC or any famous personality.

If they were legally obliged to do that what was the alternative?

I doubt the BBC is any more rotten to the core than any other large organisation, and society as a whole.

Where you give men power, some will exploit that.

Yup, they covered up Savile too.
Are you aware of the paedo statue they have too?

All employees are paid in full during suspension. There are a lot of terrible things about the BBC but following employment law is not one of them.

If they hadn't followed employment law, they would have been,

There are people that like the BBC and those that don’t. That any organisation has to follow employment protocol shouldn’t come as a surprise, no matter what the organisation, and deferring from employment protocol for the whims of the public is a slippery slope – and illegal. Not liking what you deem as an extortionate salary or a lengthy time on paid suspension is a separate issue to whatever other issues you have with the BBC.

…why not just add this to one of the other multiple threads on exactly the same topic ?

What statue?

YABU. They were following employment law; they had no other choice.

I know a man who has been horrified by the crimes of that artist, but is still very taken by the art work. He’s finding it hard to untangle.

I think the 60s and 70s were a weird era- all that throwing off the shackles of the past, free love, exploration, experimentation, breaking down taboos and boundaries….

I don't know how they could avoid that? He had a contract and was innocent until proven guilty.

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/09/bbc-to-repair-hq-sculpture-by-paedophile-child-sexual-abuser-eric-gill

People love to stick the boot in but they had no choice.

Huw Edwards is the criminal here. The one without the decency to resign himself when it all came out.

If you can give a £40k pay rise to a man who they knew was under police investigation, while people struggle to feed their kids - yes you are rotten to the core.

wages might be compulsory at this time - wage rises are not.

Unfortunately for BBC licence payers that is correct. He could have sued and cost the corporation a lot more.
Now the nasty little perv can crawl under his well deserved rock and never be seen again hopefully

Honestly he was suspended pending investigation ( and off sick]. The initial investigation came to nothing it was during that they found the images on his phone. He was on bail but not charged. They couldn't sack him them, at the end of bail period which was this week he was charged. If he had still been employed at that point he would have been sacked but he resigned months ago. They have to follow employment law and you can't sack someone for being under investigation- you suspend them .

Surely there must have been some contractual obligatuon to give him the payrise? Otherwise it was a very poor commercial decision, apart from anything else. He wasn't being productive and there was no propsect of him returning to work, so they didn't need to give him an increase to keep him.

Shocking if they actually chose to increase his pay during that period, but surely that can't be what happened.