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 suffered a miscarriage and was absent from work for just over a week. On the day she returned she was informed she was being dismissed and was given one week’s notice. The respondent demonstrated to the Equality Officer the difficulties facing it at that time and these were entirely accepted by the Equality Officer. He also accepted the assertion that had the pregnancy proceeded to full term, the complainant would have been laid off following her return from maternity leave.
The Equality Officer considered the special protected period applying to pregnancy and maternity leave. He stated that while the complainant was not pregnant, a dismissal of a pregnant person for any reason linked with her pregnancy is
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