
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 was employed as a leisure centre supervisor. The comparator was employed after her as health club attendant. About two years later the complainant discovered that the comparator was receiving a higher rate of pay and she raised the matter with her employer who attempted to remedy the situation. The comparator was promoted to supervisor shortly after this and then fourteen months later he was appointed as Leisure Centre Assistant Manager without competition. The complainant did not have an opportunity to compete for the appointment. After his appointment, the complainant lodged the instant claim with the Tribunal. She asserts that the comparator was informed of this and that he felt threatened by this resulting in adverse treatment of her in the form of undermining her efforts at work. The centre manager also approached the complainant to see if she was going to pursue the complainant lodged with the Tribunal. The complainant asserts that these constituted victimisation in terms of the Acts. The respondent asserted that staff at the centre became aware of the complainant’s claim following a Judicial Review in respect of the admissibility of the instant case.
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