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 case was one of two that drew considerable attention when referred to, and ruled upon by, the CJEU. In this case, there was no dispute that the complainant suffered from a disability and the complainant gave evidence that her employer was supportive of her throughout the process of the surrogacy including her needs for leave. However, when she sought to take maternity leave or adoptive leave she was refused as she had neither given birth to her daughter nor adopted her.
The Equality Officer, on reading the initial papers, considered that a referral to the CJEU may be appropriate. He held an initial hearing, requesting further submissions, and subsequently referred the matter to the CJEU. Following
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