The Labour Court did not recommend conceding the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union's claim for incremental credit for a worker at Cork Institute of Technology. The recommendation was signed on 2 July 2007. The union said the worker's experience and qualifications justified a higher starting point on the salary scale. The Institute said its practice was to place employees according to their qualifications. The Court noted that the worker had accepted the appointment terms in 2001 and that an earlier recommendation applied only to its own case. It found no reasonable basis to reopen those terms.