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 October 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. The first case, DEC-E2014-064 is one of the rare cases that uses misrepresentation (s77(6)) on the part of the employer to extend time. It relates to a Chinese national who worked weekends whose pay rate was unilaterally cut by 33% while the remainder of staff were given a formal proposal for 10% cut for consideration. She was also let go while a male Irish worker was retained.
2. The second case, DEC-E2014-066, relates to a worker in a quarry who was successfully treated for a
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