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.
This decision awards the full amount possible to the complainant, two years salary with the addition of interest. It should be noted that some of the evidence is presented for the first time in the Equality Officer’s conclusions.
The complainant began working with the respondent at age 17 and she asserted that two supervisors began making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature to her from shortly after she was employed. Comments were also made to her mother who was also an employee. The Decision documents the alleged comments and an incident that took place during a night out. The complainant complained after the night out and while initially denying any liability the respondent eventually undertook an
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