Blacklisting hit Olympics

Blacklisting of construction workers was still taking place during the building of London Olympic sites, according to blacklister Ian Kerr, who was fined £5,000 in 2009 for breaking data protection rules.

Kerr was responsible for the blacklist run by The Consulting Association, which was shut down after being exposed by the data privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

In his evidence to parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry, Kerr said construction firms Sir Robert McAlpine and Balfour Beatty had sought information on potential employees during the Olympic construction, as well as for the the building of the ongoing Crossrail project, PFI hospitals and Wembley Stadium.