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 respondent in this case did not engage with the Tribunal and therefore, in common with DEC-E2014-055 above the Equality Officer had no submission or evidence from the respondent to take account of.
The complainant was employed as a delivery driver by the respondent who employed 10 office staff and 15 drivers. While working on 30 May 2011 the complainant suffered an accident and was absent for 8 weeks. On advice, he sought a return to work to lighter, office-based duties. He was afforded two hours of this on return before being asked to pack fridges resulting in pain. The complainant was accommodated with office work for about 4 weeks and then asked to resume
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