The word 'amateur' has been erased from boxing letterheads, the iron curtain separating amateur and paid codes bulldozed.
Eventually, through the connections she made, Brideau landed a six-month paid code-writing internship at London-based Enternships, which places students and recent graduates in positions with starts ups and small businesses.
They could take on board and adapt Hutton's fair pay code, including its proposed "fair pay process".
Pay audits are also recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission EHRCC) equal pay code and there is an equal pay audit tool kit on the EHRC website.
The review of high pay in the public sector, carried out by Will Hutton, argued for "fair pay as a social norm" and recommended a fair pay code.
In a recently published report for the government, Observer columnist Will Hutton called for a fair pay code to be extended into the public services industry.
In the UK, the Financial Services Authority will have to widen the reach of its existing pay code from 27 key firms to 2,500 businesses and will be under pressure from banks to announce its approach early next week.
Britain's Financial Services Authority may have watered down its pay code after bankers whinged about losing talent, but it has been using moral suasion to good effect, calling bosses to express its displeasure at the re-emergence of guaranteed bonuses.
Although Cameron and Clegg talked tough, behind the scenes Tory and Liberal Democrat MEPs had been trying to water down the new pay code – so that up to 40% of a bonuses could be paid in cash – before it was passed by the European parliament last week.
Therefore, further attention needs to be paid to coding quality.
Although Operation Code is not a code school, the organization is looking for funding to help veterans pay for code school, and provides mentorship for anyone who is interested.
