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 complainant in this case was diagnosed with a rare bone disease and asserted he required accommodations. He also asserted he was continuously put down by the Principal and degraded in front of the whole class. The respondent asserted that the complainant’s claim was time barred. The Decision refers to the claim being submitted as an Employment Equality claim. This may be an error as the matter of whether the claim was lodged under the correct statute is not further addressed.
The Adjudicator considered the notification period which can be extended for reasonable cause from two months to four months. It appears the complainant would have missed this four month extended period by around a week. This
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