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 this case both volunteer complainants were found to be employees. Based on the facts that (a) the complainants were paid an amount for the time they were instructing in addition to expenses and (b) tax and USC were deducted, the Equality Officer was satisfied that a contractual relationship existed between the parties. The Equality Officer reviewed the relevant provisions of the Employment Equality Acts, and the Henry Denny case [1998 1 IR 34] and found that in the circumstances of the case the two complainants had a contract of employment for the purposes of the Acts. On that basis he found that he had jurisdiction to investigate the complaints.
Once they were found to be employees the Equality
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