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 in this case was subject to two disciplinary processes although only one was raised as part of her complaint. She complained that the precautionary suspension applied to her was discriminatory but the Equality Officer found that the respondent had been operating within its disciplinary policy. The complainant also complained that the application of one of those disciplinary processes to her was discriminatory in nature as others could also have been involved in the alleged forgery but they, who differed in race, were not investigated. This aspect of her claim was upheld as the Equality Officer found that in the absence of an explanation as to why the complainant was the only person investigated, added
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