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 is a paramedic who applied for the position of Emergency Medical Controller, was successful and placed on a panel in 2009. In 2012 a male comparator was appointed to a post left vacant in Cork on the retirement of the previous incumbent without competition and in spite of the complainant being on a panel. The control centre in Cork was closed in 2013. The complainant asserted that the continued refusal to allow her finish her advanced paramedic training was further discrimination of her on the gender ground.
The respondent asserted that training for the controller post began by “sitting with Nelly” on the person’s own time. The male to female ratio in the controller role is
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