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 May 2014 and published in June 2014 Reviewed
These decisions of the Equality Tribunal and the Labour Court were reviewed by Bernadette Treanor, Managing Consultant, Beo Solutions, and former Equality Officer at the Equality Tribunal.
1. The first case upheld below deals with compulsory retirement by virtue of reaching the age of 65. The Equality Officer found that the respondent had not objectively justified the retirement age.
2. The second case was not upheld but is useful to anyone conducting investigations in that it finds that the issue of an investigation report is unlikely to be construed as adverse treatment of a complainant just because they disagree with it. The Decision
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