Catherine Bailey

It was a huge part of our lives and it was something that really kept Sean up at night.

He wanted to tidy up his situation for many of the year.

He's been the broadcaster of Arena for 16 years, so he's been very aware that he's

This needed to be tidied up was how we used to put it.

And particularly when we were expecting our children, I said, Sean, you need to get this sorted.

So Sean went in numerous times to senior management to try and get this rectified and to say, I'm being misclassified.

I'm not a producer.

I shouldn't be on this allowance situation with my main wage.

Can you please rectify this?

And, you know, he was fobbed off an awful lot and said, yes, yes, we'll get back to you.

We'll get back to you.

But unfortunately, it never it never happened.

You know, it is if, you know, the pensionable part is bad enough.

But Sean was misclassified for years.

Sean was classified as a contractor despite working five days a week all year round.

And that was not reflected in the setup of how he was paid.

So he knew that that left us vulnerable should anything happen to him.

And he wanted that tidied up and fixed.

He just hit a brick wall every time and it was allowed to endure.

And he found it very exacerbating.