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 by the respondent since 1992. Mr. A was appointed his line manager in 2006 and in 2008 unfair treatment of him by Mr. A allegedly began. The complainant lodged two complaints with the Tribunal on 29 July 2011 and on 8 May 2012. The complainant was on sick leave from 12 January 2011 until 7 November 2011.
When looking at harassment the Equality Officer found that the last possible date an act of harassment by Mr. A could have occurred was 12 January 2011, the date the complainant went on sick leave, and on that basis the Equality Officer found that the claim in so far as it related to harassment was out of time.
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