Kristina Kukstaite v Shedan Ltd
Decision Number: Legal Body: Workplace Relations Commission
Published on: 11/02/2014
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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.

Background

The complainant was a Lithuanian national and was employed with the respondent from January 2009 until June 2010.  She alleges that a customer racially abused her on two occasions.   She did not report it to management as she felt she would lose her job.  After the second occasion the complainant complained to the Gardaí who contacted the customer and the respondent.  Following a meeting with the complainant the following morning the respondent transferred her to another of the respondent’s premises, a Supermacs.  After a short time the complainant was moved from the till in the second premises following an alleged complaint from a customer and was placed cooking burgers.  She was not rotated

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