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 April 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.
The first case describes a litany of mistreatment of an employee at the hands of an employer non-compliant with “vast swathes of employment law”. However, the nexus between any unfavourable treatment and the grounds is unclear.
The second case, parties unnamed, centres around the complainant’s application for parental leave. Although there were 12 female and 13 male parental leave applicants the Equality Officer found for the male complainant on the gender ground. Issues arise in respect of a discriminatory incident occurring in the six
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