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.
In a recent decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) it was found that a Dublin bakery did not discriminate by refusing to bake a cake containing the words, “gay marriage is a perversion of equality”. The man who placed the order with the bakery took a case under the Equal Status Acts after the decision in the Belfast case of Ashers bakery. The Court found Ashers bakery had discriminated against the customer by refusing to make a cake with a pro-gay-marriage message.
The complainant in the instant case described the Ashers case as, what he believed to be, relevant case law with the roles reversed. Further, he stated that he wanted to balance out the Asher’s bakery case,
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