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 made a number of allegations of discriminatory treatment and harassment relating to her pregnancy, maternity leave with her third child and her existing children. She alleged that the respondent made a number of comments to her and about her to others after being informed of her pregnancy such as “Jesus Lisa, you don’t hang around” and when she informed clients that she was pregnant he said “Yes and to be honest lads I am not too happy about this. She was meant to stop after her first two and now I have been informed that she is having a third”.
Only the final alleged incident occurred within six months before the referral of
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