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 for 4 years in the shop, first as a sales assistant and then as an assistant manager. The shop was owned by two individuals who appear to have had a breakdown in their relationship resulting in the complainant being asked by one to spy on the other and she was caught in the crossfire. She went on sick leave due to work-related stress on 2 March 2011.
The respondent appears to have behaved oddly in respect of accepting her sick cert and in issuing the complainant with contract of employment and employment handbook on 10 March 2011. The complainant was dismissed by letter on 23 March 2011.
The respondent argued that work related stress was not
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