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 a Spanish national employed as a waitress in the respondent’s coffee shop. The respondent did not respond to the complainant’s submission nor attend the hearing and therefore the Equality Officer had only the complainant’s evidence to consider.
A number of incidents were detailed by the complainant where she was allegedly singled out for less favourable treatment. These assertions were supported by two other waitresses, one in a written submission and one who attended the hearing. The Equality Officer upheld the complaint of less favourable treatment on the race ground.
Ultimately the complainant was dismissed from her employment and when she approached the respondent some days later she was told that all the staff had been replaced
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