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 is a Hungarian national of the Roma community. In 2010 he alleged that two colleagues made racial slurs against him, including comments relating to ‘white power’ and making the Nazi salute. He received slaps to his neck while eating his lunch and on three occasions in one week he tasted soap in his sandwiches. The complainant made a number of verbal complaints. He also reported the matter to the Gardaí. He alleges that his manager shouted at him for going to the Gardaí and Citizens Information Centre. The respondent asserts that the complaints were investigated and that it formally interviewed the two alleged offenders who both denied the allegations.
The Equality Officer was satisfied that the complainant
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