V News Wales and West of England Correspondent Rupert Evelyn
The owner of Pontins has entered into a legal agreement with the human rights watchdog after a whistleblower revealed it was using an “undesirable guests” list to exclude Gypsies and Travellers.
Britannia Jinky Jersey Limited is working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to prevent racial discrimination after a Pontins employee said the holiday park company was operating a discriminatory bookings policy.
The EHRC verified the claims and said practices included a list of Irish surnames published on its intranet page, with staff required to block potential customers with those names from booking.
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Pontin s used secret blacklist of Irish names to prevent undesirable guests booking (PA) UK holiday park, Pontins, blacklisted a range of common Irish names in an attempt to prevent Traveller families staying at its resort, according to reports. According to inews, the company listed names like Boyle, Doherty and McLaughlan on a sheet which had the headline undesirable guests . The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) carried out an investigation which concluded that Pontins had been operating a policy of refusing bookings by Gypsies and Travellers. The discriminatory policy came to light as a result of a whistleblower s decision to reveal the firm’s practices.
A British holiday park company has agreed to change its work culture after it was found they were operating a ‘surname blacklist’ that excluded Gypsy and Traveller families.
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