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 worked with UPS since 1999 and was promoted to lead driver in 2002. The respondent indicated that over time the time allowed for administrative duties as part of this role was compressed into 45 minutes. In 2009 the complainant was certified as unfit for work until on 27 April 2010 he was certified as fit for work on light duties from 11 May 2010. The respondent received a letter from its own occupational health specialist dated 4 May 2010 indicating that the complainant was capable of all non-manual handling activities. The complainant turned up for work on 11 May 2010 much to the surprise of the Operations Manager. An impromptu meeting was
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