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.
At the first hearing of this case the complainant’s representative wished to introduce incidents that had occurred after the submission of the complaint. Following the hearing another complaint was lodged in respect of those later incidents and this was delegated to the same Equality Officer. The second complaint related to two issues, the suspension of the complainant by the respondent following an incident on 26 October 2010 until August 2011 and to the complainant’s assertion that the respondent had applied the disciplinary policy to him. He asserted that he only became aware that no disciplinary action was pending against him at the first hearing of the complaints before the Tribunal and therefore this constituted ongoing discrimination
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