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.
MPD162 - HSE v Rabbitte
Issues: Maternity protection, entitlement to return to job when maternity leave ends, responsibility to identify appropriate duties
This Labour Court determination is made in accordance with the maternity protection provisions but is of interest because a considerable number of equality cases relation to maternity issues also include reference to the role the employee returns to following maternity leave. In this case, the employee was working as a grade III but was told by her manager that she was actually working as a grade IV and that she, the manager, would seek to have the employee’s position regarded whenever embargos were lifted. Due to the nature of the work, it was reassigned to another
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