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, a Polish national, worked as a security guard. He argued that he was required to work longer hours and more weekends than his Irish colleagues. He also asserted that his manager used inappropriate language but as his manager spoke like that generally the Equality Officer did not find an inference of discrimination in this.
When the complainant’s mother died he was entitled to 5 days’ paid compassionate leave. When he returned he was initially placed on the roster but two hours later was suspended ostensibly because his PSA licence was out of date and because he should not have taken the time to go to Poland. He immediately resolved the licence issue and could produce
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