Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 7339
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 7229
2-C&O-CM-'77



System Federation No. 4, Railway Employes'
Department, A. F. of L. - C. I. 0.
(Carmen)

Parties to Dispute:

Dispute: Claim of Employes:

( The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company





Findings:

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and 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, 193+.

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



Claimants were verbally notified their jobs were abolished on the second. shift and they were to report to the first shift on the following day. They were not given advance notice. The applicable rule, Rule 13 and understanding provide:

"(a) Except as ,provided in (b) of this rule for employes on relief assignments. Employes changed from one shift to another will be paid overtime rates for the first shift of each change.

Understanding - (1) The words 'employes changed' used in the first sentence of this rule, means employes changed at the instance of the company, and employes so changed must be paid at the overtime rate."
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Award No. 7339
Docket No. 7229
2-C8c0-CM-'77

The question here is whether Claimants were transferred at the instance of the Carrier. We hold they were and the claim should be sustained. Award 6791 (Zumas) is controlling where we said;

"The Board finds that the claim must be sustained. Even if the positions had in fact been abolished as Carrier contends (and there is no evidence that they were), it is unrefuted that Claimants were not so advised nor was a copy furnished to the Local Chairman. Under these circumstances the .position of the Carrier is without merit."

A W A R D

Claim sustained.

Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

osi
semarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of July, 1977.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division