Pontins, a holiday park, was found to have discriminated against Irish Travellers by creating a 'banned guest' list that included 40 'undesirable' Irish surnames. The company instructed call centre staff to listen for Irish accents and then decline or cancel bookings. This action has led to new sanctions against the company, as it breached the Equality Act by labeling these common Irish surnames as 'undesirable guests'. The Equality and Human Rights Commission identified these practices as discriminatory.
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Breaches of the Equality Act included creating a list of common Irish surnames labelled as “undesirable guests”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said. Read more: https://t.co/71Dg3b7GFt https://t.co/j3nZDygfQT
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Holiday park Pontins was found to have instructed call centre staff to listen for Irish accents and then decline or cancel their bookings and to have maintained a "banned guest" list of people suspected to be Irish Travellers Read more 🔗 https://t.co/MRZj25Gl68
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Pontins discriminated against Travellers by drawing up a list of 'undesirable' Irish surnames Read more🔗 https://t.co/aGfKBqoCId
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