NATIONAL. RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 24291

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-24465

William G. Caples, Referee

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of

Railroad Signalmen on the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company:

On behalf of Signal Maintainer B. R. Derossett, Ozark, Arkansas, for pay for all time lost from October 17 through November 30, 1980, account suspended from service during that period as a result of investigation held October 15, 1980." (Carrier file: R 225-868)

OPINION CF BOARD: The evidence before the Board is sufficient to sustain two
of the three charges against the Claimant for violation of
rules as charged. However it is the opinion of the Board that the discipline on
the record is excessive and that 30 days actual suspension would be proper.

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 discipline was excessive.

A W A R D

Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.

Award Number 24291 Page 2

Docket Number SG-24465

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

Attest: Acting Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

By
Rosemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of April 1983.

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