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.
In this Determination the Tribunal was presented with vastly differing versions of events in respect of the behaviour of the manager. The claim before the Tribunal was one of constructive dismissal. The claimant asserted that when she returned from maternity leave her hours were cut and she was expected to carry out her full-time position in part-time hours.
Her three main issues were
* The manner of the general manager
* The language used against the claimant
* The reasonableness or otherwise of the general manager.
“The claimant outlined that the general manager constantly screamed at her while gesticulating with her hands in front of the claimant’s face, as well as raising her voice and using foul language.”
The
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