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, who suffers from ADD, asserted he was disadvantaged by stage 1 of the competition for Clerical Officer consisting of a 90 minute questionnaire and three aptitude tests.
His allegations were upheld at first instance and an award of €5000 made for a failure to provide him with reasonable accommodation. An order to amend the information booklet was also made.
On appeal, the Labour Court found that the complainant had failed to establish “a prima facie case of discrimination in the circumstances that arose in 2014. He has not established to the Court’s satisfaction that he was in any way disadvantaged by the Respondent’s failure to accede to his specific requests for additional time and breaks at
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