. Dispute: Claim of Employes:

1. That.the following employee, E. J. Murphy, Electrician, was deprived of the double time rate of pay worked on Sunday, March 19, 1972 - two hours and forty minutes - when he was called out to work on the rectifier at PG20 (Hicksville).

2. That the above mentioned employee be compensated at the double time rate of. pay instead of the time and a half he received for work performed on that i?ay.

Finding

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record ana all the evidence, finds that.:

The carrier or. carriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.

Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

The facts in this claim are comparable to those in Docket No. 6512 which was adjudicated in Award No. 6662 by denying that claim. Here, the Claimant was assigned and did work two hours and forty minutes on Sunday, March 19, 1972, for which he was paid at the time and one-half rate. In a letter dated May 18, 1972 the Carrier advised the General Chairman that the claim was invalid because the number of E.T. employes who worked on Sunday, March 19, 1972 were no greater than the number permitted to work without penalty under Article VII of the Agreement. This leas not been challenged by the Employes.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division

1~osemarie Drasch -7~Umini_strative Assistant