The Labour Court recommended that Tipperary County Council and the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union, Services Industrial Professional Technical Union, and Technical Engineering and Electrical Union begin immediate talks on revised working hours, in a recommendation dated 1 July 1996. If they did not agree within a month, the Court recommended introducing an 8.15am to 4.45pm working day and paying the outstanding phase of the special increase retrospectively. The dispute concerned the final phase of a £16.04 weekly pay increase.