NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 19563

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number MS-19749

Gene T, Bitter, Referee

(Ann L. (Raehn) Bass PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Illinois Central Railroad Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: This is to serve notice, as required by the rules of the
National Railroad Adjustment Board, of my intention to file an ex parts submission on April 21, 1972'covering an unadjusted dispute between me end the Illinois Central Railroad involving the question:

Payment of severance pay after consolidation of my job at Hazlehurst, Miss, with Crystal Springs, Miss, wherein the senior employee took job and I was left with option of severance pay if desired according to rules as I under stand them.

OPINION OF BOARD: The record in this dispute reveals that the involved claim
was not filed within the time limit requirements of Rule 27 (A) of the Telegraphers' Agreement. The position involved was abolished on May 31, 1969, and the claim for separation pay was not made until April 11, 1971. Therefore, this claim will be dismissed because of violation of the Time Limit Rule.

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 Employee 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 claim be dismissed.

A W A R D

Claim dismissed.

NATION.kL PAIIROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 10th day of January1973.