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 claim relates to victimisation of the complainant by the respondent for previous allegations of harassment on the sexual orientation ground. The complainant described these earlier events and the respondent argued that the majority of the claim was based on out of time incidents.
The Equality Officer considered the earlier incidents and decided that various incidents “all established a link. I took the view that the burden of proof to demonstrate that these matters were not linked was too heavy and accordingly I allowed the linkage”.
The purpose of establishing this linkage is unclear as these earlier incidents do not appear to be included in the description of the claim at the outset of the Decision and no finding
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