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.
The complainant was employed as a general operative with the respondent. He and his colleagues were periodically laid off from work and on each occasion the complainant was taken back at the same time as his colleagues. This did not happen on the last occasion of lay-off. The complainant broke his toe on 23 March 2011 after being informed on 21 March 2011 of the latest impending lay off and was expected to be unavailable for work for 4 to six weeks. On 13 April 2011 the complainant received a text along with his colleagues about returning to work. The complainant was subsequently told the text was not meant for him and that he
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