Form 1 NATZOML RAILEOADD ADJTJS-Tr.T-f1T BOARD Award No. 8266
SECOND DIVISION Docket 1do. 8229
2-SOU-FO.=' 80



System Federation TTo. 21, Railway Er-bloyes'
Department, 1A1.. F. of J,. - C. 1. 0.
(Firemen & oilers)

Parties to D ispute:-

Dispute : Claim o f 1-'=1oyes

( Southern Pzaiiz`ray Co::pany

1. That under the Current and Controlling 14~reement, Laborer C. W. ?,7iitaker






2. That aCCordinz~ly ,'w~ n j'~:Ia.tc.'_" 1' e e t t'en'';





Fi ndin-''S

The Second Division of the Adjustnent Board, upon the whole record anl. al! t:l~e evidence, finds t:lat



are respectively carrier and er:ploye ...-,ithin the .:<.wni rh oz" tile :,~..1~;-~r L;oc~' :.,:t
as apps .-,red June 21, 193'+.

This Division of the' \djLLstmant Board he,S jurisdiction over the diSOate involved herein.



ClwL- ant iror':ed for the Carrier through January ?__3, 1978, at which t 1me he reported off for the nOR,:t d3.?T, Sta.tini h ci, he h-d ~, _. Ur?!ll buS-1_neSS t0 ~t'Fi;OY;`,7. too Nothing fu-'2-'U-hey- ,Tas heard frcl hi~l i~_:ediatre:~y therZa=Ler, and -"--,he Carrier s.,~nt him a letter i n ?ebi'~la ~';, °con~c'ernin" his a;)enceo Tile letter ,,as returned undelivered. It develoneu that the ~la_...w~ "pas incarcerated by the State of
Cteor-is on drug ch:~r7~

his job status. ~- r,~;. hell,'"' - _ Shortly ereafte


Foil a-v,-i ng the hear i n-, the Carrier di :°:,.=_ssed the Cl wL-i.ant f rom sex-ii_ce on June 15, l9'TO, -for his :iai1u'e t0 protec i, !'_.S aSSir;rl'~.enr~. The r ecord sho:·IS that the C1ci-`_anii: failed t0 advise ',:he Carrier of his status for fm:a' I::onthS. '!~a::'.~Y'C?1S previous awards have sunrlorted tile ri'~ht of a car;r;~er to consider incarceration for a cra?_le not to be 1'!1^Od cause" for absence. Tile DC.-:rd i:c~ no basis on ''T'1-_:;'.Il

i;o in~erfi:'r with ,.'F' Ca.21'-i8r I ; :! . ':. ._:,? ~;Y;~ T

1n 'he T_:-.'t; v':'.r :`tE?re I'17. ~i' dev 3l Gz~d c _ ,.'~.r' a ';` ., ' _ e ;a zrr
Form 1 Award No. 8266
Page 2 Docket ==o. 8229
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    Claim denied.


                            nViTTOi'AL RAIIROAD ADj-UTSTP-!l=,IP BOARD

                            By Order of Second Division


Attest: Executive Secre tai 7;r
National ~;af_l -ro~.d ,ldjustment Board

By r _ - t R :_ : _ .' ' f' ..-.~.·-'~'1.

      O 'rasc i "2111 "i S'3 '?L lVe ~,Ss--S'U~ffu


Dated at Ch:i_ca~o, 117_inois, t -.s 5 t-h d~y of --a_ch, 1980