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:
Employment Equality Decisions issued in December 2014 Reviewed
These decisions of the Equality Tribunal were reviewed by Bernadette Treanor, Managing Consultant, Beo Solutions, and former Equality Officer at the Equality Tribunal.
1. In DEC-E2014-081 the respondent delayed responding to the complainant’s degenerative eye problems and this delay was found to amount to a failure to provide reasonable accommodation even though its subsequent action was reasonable.
2. DEC-E2014-086 finds that the delay in bringing the complainant back to work following maternity leave was discriminatory even though the complainant never complied with the statutory requirement to inform the employer in writing. It is worth considering this in conjunction with case 4 below where in this case the breach was
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