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, 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 being managed by his GP. The respondent’s medical advisors concluded that the complainant could not be cleared for safety critical work including the role for which he had been employed. The respondent had a policy of seeking to accommodate staff who develop a disability. This was applied but because of his unsuitability for safety critical work, or using power tools alone, no other role was identified for him and he retired on ill health.
In the WRC the Adjudication Officer upheld the
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