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.
This complaint relates to a Polish national claiming that he was less favourably treated in relation to his terms and conditions of employment because he had difficulty in getting his wages and sometimes had to demand what he was owed. It is a relatively standard claim in that regard with an added aspect of harassment on the race ground which is the only aspect of the claim upheld. The complainant asserted that when he demanded his wages he was told to “f*** off back to Poland”.
The complainant’s representative argued that a foreign national is in particularly vulnerable position in this respect although no evidence was presented that would indicate that the Irish employees were not likewise treated.
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