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, a Chinese national, was a part-time employee with the respondent since February 2002 until January 2011. She worked mostly weekends. Mr. M was similarly employed sometime after the complainant. In June 2010 the complainant’s pay rate was cut from €15 per hour to €10 per hour. Her hours were also cut. After 27 December 2010 she received no hours at all although Mr. M continued in his employment
The respondent neither made a submission to the Tribunal nor attended the hearing.
The Equality Officer first addressed the timeliness of the complaint as it had been submitted on 4 July 2011 while the complainant’s last day at work was 27 December 2010, suggesting it was 8 days out
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