Welsh broadcaster S4C have confirmed that their chief content material officer Llinos Griffin-Williams has left the channel following allegations that she “behaved inappropriately” in French bars in the course of the . Griffin-Williams had been in Nantes for Wales’ remaining pool stage match in opposition to Georgia, earlier than arguing with members of the manufacturing employees.
She had solely joined S4C in April 2022 and was producing the broadcaster’s programmes from the World Cup in France. The channel confirmed in an announcement that that they had been made conscious of studies that the chief made “inappropriate feedback” to members of the manufacturing employees from unbiased firm Whisper – who had additionally been producing S4C’s broadcasts of the event.
The assertion, partially, : “Based on data that has been shared with S4C Information, Ms Griffin-Williams was in Nantes in her position because the channel’s Chief Content material Officer for Wales’ final group sport in opposition to Georgia. After the sport, in two places within the metropolis, it’s understood that an argument passed off between her and the members of the corporate.
“Based on studies, the primary venue was a gig to mark Clwb Ifor Bach’s fortieth anniversary, with the controversy persevering with in a second bar within the metropolis centre.”
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Llinos Griffin-Williams has left her place at S4C. (Picture: S4C)
The information comes after S4C had already been conducting an investigation into studies of “bullying” throughout the firm from officers. No date has been set for the publication of that report, because the investigation started in Might.
Earlier this yr, the S4C board commissioned Capital Regulation to research severe bullying allegations made by members of employees on the Welsh language TV channel. Based on a letter that had been despatched to non-executive board members by broadcasting union Bectu, 4 of their members had been in tears as they described their conditions on the firm.
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Wales scoring in opposition to Georgia as Llinos Griffin-Williams helped S4C cowl the match. (Picture: Getty)
Carwyn Donovan, Bectu’s negotiation secretary in Wales, wrote the letter during which he described employees “frequently dropped at tears” and “too scared to share their expertise” and he claimed that the assembly was “probably the most stunning” in his profession as a commerce union consultant.
S4C chairman Rhodri Williams then confirmed that an investigation could be undertaken and the letter “clearly did not make for snug studying,” and that “various factors raised, if proved to be true, would give us severe considerations.”
He added: “They aren’t the kind of issues anybody accountable for any organisation want to learn, be {that a} non-public or a public organisation.”
On the time, Welsh Conservative tradition spokesman Tom Giffard described the allegations as “deeply regarding”, and had a “wider influence on the fame of our Welsh language broadcaster” as S4C has performed an enormous position in Welsh-language broadcasting since being established in 1982 – claiming that it contributed £141.1million to the Welsh economic system in 2019-20.