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.
This was an appeal of an Equality Officer Decision that the complaint was out of time. The original Decision, DEC-E2015-076, is remarkable in its confusion as to the relevant dates. Due to this confusion a tentative understanding of the Equality Officer’s conclusion is that the phone calls on 28 and 30 November 2012 between the complainant and her employer were reiterations of what the occupational health physician had concluded on 9 November 2012, that the complainant was permanently unfit for manual handling duties. Apparently no alternative duties were available for the complainant and this may have been previously put to the complainant following previous assessments although insufficient information is available. There is no mention of
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