In 1991, the Labour Court upheld the Rights Commissioner’s findings in a dispute over a laboratory assistant’s phlebotomy duties at Bon Secours Hospital. Its decision was signed on 21 March 1991. The worker said her share of the blood-taking work had fallen and sought at least 50%. The hospital said her phlebotomy duties would continue and that a rigid sharing arrangement would not work. The Court said arrangements should give the worker a substantial amount of the work, in any case more than 30%. They were to be monitored for three months and then assessed to see whether changes were needed. It also clarified that the earlier £2,750 ex gratia payment was gross and subject to normal deductions.