Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 12490
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 123L3
92-2-91-2-105
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Edward L. Suntrup when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood Railway Carmen/Division of TCU
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:(


STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

"1. That the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company (CSX Transportation, Inc.) (hereinafter referred to as "carrier") violated the service rights of Carman F. Bias (hereinafter referred to as "claimant") and the provisions of Rule 27 of the controlling Agreement when on November 25, 1987 the carrier, at the end of claimant's regular shift assignment, informed the claimant not to report back until January 4, 1988 and not allowing the claimant a proper five (5) day notice of furlough.

2. Accordingly, the claimant is entitled to be compensated for five (5) days pay at the applicable straight time for said violation."

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 respectivelly carrier and employes 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 waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.

This claim is identical with respect to facts, applicable Agreement provisions and positions of the Parties with the Claim recently decided by this Board in a companion case.

For the same reasons fully developed in Second Division Award 12487, the present Claim likewise must be dismissed.
Form 1 Award No. 12490
Page 2 Docket No. 12313
92-2-91-2-105



        Claim dismissed.


                                NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                                By Order of Second Division


Attest:
          ancy J ver - Executive Secretary

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Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 9th day of December 1992.