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 encountered a malfunction with the till in the restaurant during a particularly busy period. The manager on duty could not fix it so the complainant, on her own initiative, went to another restaurant which used the same type of till. She received a call from the respondent later that evening shouting at her for bringing an outsider into his business. The complainant described how the respondent was verbally abusive to all staff on a regular basis without cause and that he generally acted in the manner of a bully.
The respondent neither made a submission to the Tribunal nor attended the hearing. The Equality Officer accepted the complainant as a credible witness and that she had
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