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.
In this month’s equality feature, Bernadette Treanor, Managing Consultant with Beo Solutions, reviews the case of Irish Rail v Michael Flanagan [2017] EDA1716 and Complainant and Various (Bakery Case) [2017] ADJ-00004390.
* NOTE: Bernadette is also the chair of Legal-Island's Employment Equality Law in Ireland Update 2017 conference, taking place at Hilton Charlemont Place, Dublin on Thursday 12th October 2017.
Irish Rail v Michael Flanagan ⚓︎
WRC reference: ADJ-00002298
Labour Court Reference: EDA1716
Keywords: Discrimination; Disability; Reasonable Accommodation; Direct Discrimination; Comparator
The complainant, Mr. Flanagan, worked for Irish rail from 2004 until he fell ill in January 2015. In the engagements that followed the complainant disclosed that he had been suffering from epilepsy since 1997 and it was
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