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 published in November 2014 Reviewed
1. The first case, DEC-E2014-067 was not upheld but will be of interest to many because it describes a successful defence of an alleged failure to provide reasonable accommodation in a manufacturing environment.
2. The second case, DEC-E2014-069, also considers reasonable accommodation. It was taken by a Speed Monitoring/Surveying Operator whose speed survey van was set alight after having petrol thrown on it while he was in it. The complainant suffered severe psychological injury as a result of the attack. He was dismissed when he informed the occupational health person that he would never go back working as a speed monitoring operator.
3. The third case, DEC-E2014-070 includes a
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