NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSRMIIT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-23170
Joseph A. Sickles, Referee
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
STATMNT 0f CLAIM: "Claims of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen on the Missouri Pacific Railroad:
Claim on behalf of the following employees for dinner meal expense
while working away from headquarters during the month of January 1978.
Claim No. 1. Carrier file: K 225-781 cc: 225-734.
Signalman K. R. Shaver. Gang 1412, Houston, Texas, for $19.25
covering expense for evening meals on January 17, 24, 25 and 26,
1978.
Claim No. 2. Carrier file: K 225-782 cc: 225-734.
Signal Maintainer !. Patterson, Gang 1406,
Houston,
Texas, for
$26.70 covering meal expense for evening meals on January 16, 17,
20, 24, 25 and 26, 1978."
OPINION OF BOARD: The Claimants have submitted a claim for meal expenses
for certain designated days. Rule 304(c) of the Agreement
specifies that employee .hall not be required to work more than 2 hours after
regular bulletin hours without being permitted to go to meals, and provides
for meal periods at further 6 hour intervals. Rule 600(e) makes certain reference to expense payment
According to the Claimants, the Carrier arbitrarily refused to
reimburse them for dinner expenses incurred while they were performing work
away from their assigned headquarters for more than 2 hours after their assigned
working hours.
The Carrier has noted that the claim, as progressed, was rather
sketchy concerning factual assertions, and in any event, the Employes are attempting to expand the c
Award Number
2344o
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Docket Number SG-23170
The Hoard has fully reviewed the record, and with the information
available to us, we are unable to sustain the claim. Regardless of whether
or not the Carrier violated any provisions of the Agreement by its action,
the fact remains that this claim is for expense payments, and we do not
find any contrarbmal basis to substantiate the claim based upon the facts
as we understand them, We emphasize that this Award deals only with the precise issues presented to
conflict.
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 Mnployes 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 Agreemsat vas not violated.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD AW;B'HEtT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
fteentive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this
3rd
day of November 1981.,
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