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 worked in the Dundrum Café. His race is not apparent from the decision. However, the following is recorded as his evidence of the impugned incident:
The Complainant submits that he was subjected to harassment on the race grounds during an incident on 31st August 2012 by his manager (Line Manager) where his Line Manager greeted him with foul language, tried to kick him and this was met with laughter and derision from five other staff members.
The Complainant further submitted that during the ensuing conversation with his Line Manager, that when asking him about cleaning a fryer, his Line Manager responded loudly: “It was dirty like your f*****g face”. This was not disputed by the respondent who
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