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.
This Determination considers an appeal of an Equality Tribunal Decision. At the Labour Court hearing of the appeal the complainant raised some issues concerning the Tribunal procedures particularly in relation to not having adequate time to consider documents presented by the respondent at the hearing. The Court stated “The role of this Court is to determine an appeal by way of a de novo hearing of the case; it has no jurisdiction to entertain complaints concerning the way in which the Equality Tribunal fulfills its statutory mandate”. The Court went on to state that the complainant had had adequate time to consider the documents in preparation for the appeal and proceeded to “deal with the case
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