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.
This appeal was brought by the complainant Ms. Byrne in respect of a Tribunal decision which had not upheld her claims of discrimination. Although the Tribunal Decision appears to have been anonymised, from the content it appears to be DEC-E2013-033.
The complainant suffered from a phobia of rodents and her workplace suffered an infestation of rodents following ground development work on an an adjacent site. Both the Tribunal and the Labour Court accepted that the complainant suffered from a disability. While the Tribunal Decision provides more of the medical information submitted it remains unclear whether it is appropriate to consider phobias generally to be disability or whether the nature of the impact of the phobia on the
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