NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number MW-20101
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Port Terminal Railroad Association
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
(1) The Carrier violated the Agreement when it called and used
Extra Gang Foreman Walker instead of Relief Foreman Edwards for overtime
service on December 25, 1971 (System File Time Claim MW-72-3).
(2) Relief Foreman Edwards be allowed four and one-half (4-1/2)
hours' pay at the section foreman's rate because of the violation referred to
within Part (1) of this claim.
OPINION OF BOARD: For the period extending from December 6 through December
31, 1971, Claimant L. B. Edwards was assigned as Relief
Section Foreman to fill the position of a vacationing employee. This position
was assigned to work Monday through Friday with Saturday and Sunday designated
as rest days. On Saturday, December 25, 1971, Carrier called and used another
employee, Extra Gang Foreman Walker, to perform overtime services on the sec
tion territory under the Claimant's job jurisdiction.
Claimant alleges that he was available to work and that his telephone number was on file at the road
circumstances, Petitioner urges that failure to call and use Claimant on the
day in question was violative of the Agreement, Rules 14, 15 and 16, hereinafter reproduced in perti
(L). WORK ON UNASSIGNED DAYS. Where work is
required by the Association to be performed on a day
which is not a part of any assignment, it may be performed by an available extra or unassigned emplo
who will otherwise not have forty (40) hours of work
that week; in all other cases by the regular employee.
(I). Employees notified or called to perform
work before or after but not continuous with the
regular work period will be allowed a minimum of
two hours and forty minutes at time and one-half
rate for two hours and forty minutes work or less.
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"If held on duty in excess of two hours and forty
minutes (2'40"), time and one half will be allowed
on the minute basis.
RULE 1&:
(A). Except as otherwise provided in this
rule, employees who are required to work on their
assigned rest days and the following holidays -namely, New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday,
Decoration Day,
Fourth of
July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas (,provided when any of the
above holidays fall or. Sunday, the day observed by
the State, Nation or by Proclamation shall be considered the holiday) shall be compensated therefor
at the rate of time and one-half with a minimum of
two hours and forty minutes (2'40"), as per paragraph I of Rule 15."
Carrier defends its denial of the claim on the ground that Claimant
failed to provide Carrier with a correct telephone number. The record before
us, however, reveals substantial confusion among Carrier personnel responsible
for calling Claimant regarding the telephone number they called on the day in
question, i.e., whether the calls were made to his old number or to his current
number. In this connection, Claimant's contention that he had several times
prior to December 25, 1971 been called to his assignment by Carrier at his current
correct number stands unrefuted.
On the facts before us we are not convinced that the requisite reasonable effort was made by Car
another employee in his Position. Accordingly, the claim must be sustained.
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
Ace, 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.
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A W A R D
Claim sustained.
NATIONAL
RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT
BOARD
By order of Third Division
ATTEST:
Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of January 1974.