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 in this case lodged a complaint with the Equality Tribunal in respect of arrangements he had with the Abbey Theatre. Based on submissions it appears the Equality Officer decided to hold a preliminary hearing as to whether the complainant had been, in fact, an employee as required by the Employment Equality Acts.
At the preliminary hearing arrangements were made for the date of the substantive hearing. However, the Equality Officer decided that the complainant was not an employee for the purposes of the Acts and issued a Decision on that basis which disposed of the case and removed the requirement to hold a substantive hearing.
The complainant pursued a Judicial Review of the Tribunal rather than an
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