Employment Equality Decisions Issued in February 2015
Published on: 06/08/2015
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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 January 2015 (Published February 2015) Reviewed

These decisions of the Equality Tribunal and Labour Court were reviewed by Bernadette Treanor, Managing Consultant, Beo Solutions, and former Equality Officer at the Equality Tribunal.

None of the cases published last week by the Tribunal were upheld but two decisions have issued that address interesting jurisdictional issues.

1. EDA151 is really interesting on a number of technical fronts.  It is a short recommendation overturning a Tribunal Decision that the complaint was misconceived as the directors of the respondent company had been named rather than the employer.  The Labour Court has remitted the case to the Tribunal in, what appears to be, contradiction of

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 06/08/2015
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