‘She wasn’t paid as much because she wasn’t worth as much’

Phone giants TalkTalk did not pay a female executive as much as her male colleagues because her role did not ‘significantly influence’ the business, a tribunal heard. Rebecca Burke, 43, is suing the telecoms giant under the equal pay law after she discovered she did not earn as much as her former male colleagues. But TalkTalk’s lawyers claim her pay was calculated using a clear methodology showing her role was less strategically important. The Willis Towers Watson survey methodology is…