NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
. THIRD DIVISION Docket Number CL-24607
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
( Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE.
L
gin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-9639)
that:
1. Carrier violated the effective Clerks' Agreement when, on July 21,
1981, it removed Clerk Barbara Dommer from service without just cause;
2. Carrier shall now return Ms. Dommer to service and shall compensate
her for all time lost commencing with July 21, 1982, and continuing until she is
returned to service. Dates and amounts to be determined by a joint check of Carrier
records.
OPINION OF BOARD: The dispute herein involves the same parties, the same
Claimant, and basically the same issues as involved in our
recent Award No. 24196. In the prior case the Carrier denied the Claimant a
janitor position, which position involved the operation of Company vehicles,
because she was under medical restriction, based on visual deficiency, against
driving a Company vehicle. In our present dispute the Claimant was removed from
the extra board at Gary, Indiana for the same reason, visual deficiency and
Carrier's restriction against her operating Company vehicles. -
In Award 24196 the Board found that Carrier had failed to establish
reasonable justification for the disqualification of Claimant on the basis of her
visual deficiency. We have carefully reviewed Award No. 24196. We find it well
reasoned and not in palpable error.- The Carrier has submitted some of the
correspondence in the janitor position dispute as part of its submission in
the present dispute; thus indicating that it considers the disputes similar.
For the reasons outlined in Award No. 24196, the claim that the
Agreement was violated !n our present dispute will be sustained as the Carrier's
prohibition against Claimant operating Company vehicles was disposed of in that
Award. This referee will not be a party to conflicting awards in disputes between
the same parties, involving the same Claimant, and the came basic contentions of
the parties.
As to the remedy for the violation, the Carrier states, and it has not
been refuted, that because of force reduction, since November 3, 1981, Claimant
has not possessed sufficient seniority to be returned to service even had she not
been prohibited from operating Company vehicles. We will award that Claimant be
paid the difference between what she would have earned from July 21, 1981, to
November 3, 1981, had the prohibition against operating Company vehicles not been
imposed, and what she may have earned from the Carrier or other employment during
that period.
Award Number 24297 Page 2
Docket Number CL-246o7
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Boari, 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.
A W A R D
Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.
NATIONAL RAIIROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest: Acting Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board
By
Rosemarie Breach - Administrative Assistant
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of April 1983.
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Serial No. 314
NATIONAL RAILROAD ALIjUSTMENT BOARD
' THIRD DIVISION
INTERPRETATION NO. 1 TO AWARD NO. 24297
DOCKET N0. CL-24607
NAME OF ORGANIZATION: Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes
NAME OF CARRIER: Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
upon application of the representatives of the Employes involved in the
above Award, that this Division interpret the same in light of the dispute between
the parties as to the meaning and application, as provided for in Section 3,
First (m) of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934, the following
interpretation is made.
The Organizations notice to file an ex parte submission in the dispute
covered by Award No. 24297 was dated June 8, 1982. Award No. 24297 was based
upon the record before the Board at the time the award was made, April 14, 1983.
In
the concluding paragraph of Award No. 24297, the Board held:
'As to the remedy for the violation, the Carrier states; and it has not
been refuted, that because of force reduction, since November 3, 1981,
Claimant has not possessed sufficient seniority to be returned to service
even had she not been prohibited from operating Company vehicles. We
will award that Claimant be paid the difference between what she would
have earned from July 21, 1981, to November 3, 1981, had the prohibition
against operating Company vehicles not been imposed, and what she may
have earned from the Carrier or other employment during that period.·
No
contention was
raised in the record leading up to the award about
junior employes allegedly being recalled to service about February 11, 1982.
In
the Organizations request for interpretation, it contends that employes junior
to claimant Barbara r were recalled to service and worked full time from
February 11, 1982, until on or about March 10, 1982 and seeks compensation for
Claimant DJmmer for that period.
It is well settled that the Board may not, through the guise of an
interpretation, properly consider issues that were not before the Board when the
original award was issued. Any contention now made that Ms. Dbmmer should have
been recalled to service on or about February 11, 1982, must be dismissed.
Referee Paul C. Carter, who sat with the Division as a neutral member
when Award No. 24297 was adopted, also participated with the Division in making
this interpretation.
Serial No. 314
- Award Number 24297
Locket Number CL-24607 Page 2
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST: . ~(7
Nancy J.
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- Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, r.Z.Zinois, this 19th day of October, 1983.
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