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 is a member of the Traveller community who was employed as a labourer on various sites by the respondent. It is agreed that when some scrap metal was stolen, a supervisor called the complainant and left a message asking him to “tell your cousins not to come back to the site again”.
The Equality Officer considered the respondent’s Personal Harassment Policy and found it complied with SI 208 of 2012. She also found that the respondent’s Health and Safety Officer responded appropriately when the matter came to her attention. However, the Equality Officer found that the respondent “manifestly did not prevent the incident occurring”. She also noted that the person who had left the message was a
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