Bernadette Treanor is the founder of Beo Solutions, an employee relations and engagement consultancy which provides best practice expert leadership and impartial organisational support in the areas of employee relations, employee engagement, workplace investigations, disciplinary hearings and mediation.
An expert in equality law, Bernadette provides Equality reviews and assessments, including assessments of cases being prepared. She is a Committee member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) and CIPD member. She reviews equality Decisions issued by the Equality Tribunal for Legal Island monthly and chairs its annual Equality Conference aimed at equality practitioners.
The first Decision of 2014 was issued by the Director, Mr. Niall McCutcheon, and relates to 34 complainants, 30 of whom turned up for the hearing. While a number of issues including gender were included in the original complaints the Decision ultimately dealt with only three substantive issues were addressed, failure to pay the REA rates, failure to provide written contracts of employmentand an assertion relating to inducements of additional hours in return for renting accommodation from a Director of the respondent.
The representative for the complainants argued that the Tribunal should infer, because all of the employees were non nationals, that the employer’s intention was to exploit non-Irish nationals and argued that a notional Irish comparator would
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