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 complaint was submitted on the family status ground but as the complainant and respondent argued the case on the civil status ground the Equality Officer addressed the complaint on both grounds.
The complainant and his wife were both employed by the respondent but in different locations. The complainant’s wife, before going on maternity leave asked if her husband could move to her store for family convenience and the respondent agreed. It was agreed that a comment was made to the complainant by a manager in respect of a policy that married couples could not work together. The Equality Officer found that the policy in fact stated that related persons may not work together but this
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