The Labour Court recommended that suitably qualified staff transferred to GMC Civil and Mechanical Engineering Ltd have first call on work under Bord Gáis Eireann’s Period Contract 05/52 for the contract’s lifetime. The recommendation was signed on 26 March 2010. The dispute concerned the interpretation of a transfer agreement and the selection of workers for lay-off and redundancy. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union argued that staff who transferred with the contract should not be displaced from its work; GMC Civil and Mechanical Engineering Ltd and Bord Gais Eireann were also parties to the agreement considered by the Court.