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’s maternity leave was due to expire on 1 January 2011. She informed her supervisor of her intention to return but never complied with the statutory requirement to inform her employer in writing. The respondent acknowledged that the complainant’s return to work was facilitated in February 2011 following a phone call from an advocate of the complainant indicating the complainant’s intention to take legal action if her return to work was not facilitated. The Equality Officer found that this delay in facilitating the complainant’s return to work, even in the absence of the statutorily required notification, was discriminatory on the gender ground.
In looking at the loss of earnings for the gap between maternity leave and return to
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