'~ Award No. 17186

Docket No. SG-17609

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

.John B. Criswell, Referee

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen on the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company that:

(a) Carrier failed to properly pay Signal Department employes on the Kent Seniority District in accordance with the provisions of Rules 15 and 16 (b) for work they performed on the rest dayholidays which occurred December 25, 1965, and January 1, 1966. Such employes were paid time and one-half for working their rest days, only; they should also have been paid time and onehalf for working the holidays.

(b) Carrier should be required now in accordance with the provisions of Rules 15 and 16 (b) to pay- Signal Department employes on the Kent Seniority District who were called and worked on December 25, 1965 (Christmas), and January 1, 1966 (New Year's Day), the additional time and one-half to which they are entitled for having worked the holidays. A check of the time records should be made in order to determine the names of the individuals and the time involved.

[Carrier's File: 140-142.]

EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: This claim involves the question of how employes are to be paid for service they render on a day which is both a holiday and rest day.

Claimant Signal Employes on the Kent Division Seniority District are all assigned to work Monday through Friday with Saturdays and Sundays as rest days.

()n Saturdays, December 25, 1965, and January 1, 1966, they were called for work outside their regular assignments. For such service Carrier paid them under the provisions of Rule 16(c) for having worked on their rest days.

Carrier refused, however, to allow payment in accordance with the provisions of Rule 15 for service they performed on the Christmas and New Years' holidays. Claims on their behalf, therefore, were entered for additional amounts of time equal to that which they were paid for December 25 and January- 1.

(Exhibits not reproduced)

OPINION OF BOARD: Certain employes of the Signal Department on the Kent Seniority District worked on December 25, 1965, and January 1, 1966. They were paid time and one-half for working their rest days, and they seek an additional payment of time and one-half since the days were also holidays.

This question has been resolved in many awards of this Board: 16785, 16797, 16801, 16803, 16845, 16846, 16855, 16857, 17087. Each sustained the claim of the employes.

Carrier, in the instant case, argues that because the employes were not named such additional payment for the holiday should not be allowed.

"It is now well established that identification of claimants by means other than specific names is satisfactory if such claimants are readily identifiable."

We follow this and the agreeing awards in sustaining the claim.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the parties waived oral hearing;

That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

That the Agreement was violated.

AWARD

Claim sustained.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: S. H. Schulty

Executive Secretary