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 was employed by the respondent since 2007. In 2009 she suffered an accident at work injuring her shoulder. Her usual duties were as a general operative in the warehouse and occasionally she worked in the “clean room” and on a computer printing labels. The complainant was initially allocated duties at the computer station and was subsequently put back to her pre-injury duties. She had subsequent intermittent absences and on her return from one was subject to a disciplinary process.
There was a volume of correspondence between the parties, some being requests for lighter work and others related to H&S. Her GP’s report to the employer resulted in her not receiving any further accommodations.
The respondent asserted that
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