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.
Bernadette Treanor writes:
Two cases were upheld this month and both have interesting technical aspects. They are detailed below in addition to two cases not upheld (considered in brief) which also have interesting issues to review.
1. The first case upheld, DEC-E2015-015, addresses depression, and a ‘resignation’ made while the employee was unwell being considered ‘special circumstances’. It also addresses reasonable accommodation and appears to go further than has previously been required as it finds that the respondent failed to provide reasonable accommodation while the complainant was still certified unfit for work.
2. The second case, DEC-E2015-016, relates to an alleged discriminatory dismissal on grounds of pregnancy and is upheld even though the complainant had a fixed term contract that
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