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 Sept/Oct 2013 Reviewed
These decisions of the Equality Tribunal, with an additional one from the Labour Court, were reviewed by Bernadette Treanor, Managing Consultant, Beo Solutions, and former Equality Officer at the Equality Tribunal.
Two of the Decisions from the Equality Tribunal reviewed below relate to the disability ground, one in respect of reasonable accommodation and constructive dismissal and the other in respect of long-term absence and dismissal. The former indicates that moving a person to resolve interpersonal issues cannot override the need for reasonable accommodation and is the second case this year, resulting in a large award, where the the HSE was found to have ignored medical advice. The
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