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.
1. DEC-E2015-138 looks at compulsory retirement age and finds that pension notifications from 1999 were the most recent act of discrimination rather than the more recent retirement letters. It also includes a refusal of permission to proceed with a claim before the EAT under section 101(2)(b) in circumstances where no discriminatory dismissal complaint appears to have been before the Equality Officer.
2. EDA163 addresses sexual harassment and notably, it finds that the respondent cannot avail of the defence primarily because the line manager did not recognise the complaints or consider them serious. Therefore line managers’ knowledge and training is now considered a reasonably practicable step to be undertaken by an employer in order to avail of the defence in section
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