NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION Locket Number CL-24669
Josef P. Sirefman, Referee
(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
(Freight Handlers, Express and Station Dnployes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-9609)
that:
(a) The Carrier violated provisions of the Clerks' General Agreement
and supplements thereto, when on May 27, 1979 its Officers refused to honor R. W.
Chapman's letter requesting rearrangement to WeighmasterlBill position C-444, and
instead, forced him to rearrange to Operator position T-11 at R. U. Cabin,
Russell, Kentucky.
(b) That R. W. Chapman be compensated for the difference in rate of
the Operator position that he worked and the rate of WeighmasterlBill position C444, that he should
of C-444; and in addition, that he be compensated for eight (8) hours at pro rata
rate of Messenger C-482, for being forced to rearrange to a position in a
different office force.
(Carrier File CG-15053)
OPINION OF B Q4RD: Claimant R. W. Chapman was rearranged on May 27, 1979 contrary
to Rule 12 of the Agreement. Rearrangement penalties are
found in Rule 24. The Carrier paid Claimant the penalty under Rule 24(c).
However, the Organization contends that Claimant was also entitled to the penalty
set forth in Rule 24(d). In the Board's opinion this contention is not persuasive.
In Third Division Award 15985, which dealt with claims "for both a rest day and a
holiday where they occur on the same day", we held that "This Board is committed
to follow a growing number of precedents which have consistently held that the
Carrier has an obligation to make two separate payments for such service where
there are two separate rules and no qualifying exceptions." The contract, in
that Award, contained a separate substantive rule for Holidays (Article 4) and a
separate substantive rule for Service Ch Rest Days (Article 6-A). In the instant
claim there has been a violation of but a single substantive rule, namely,
Article 12 dealing with rearrangements. Under these circumstances the Organi
zation seeks, in effect, a "double penalty", a concept rejected by this Board
(Third Division Awards 7370 and 12654).
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 Rnployes involved in this dispute are
respectively Carrier and Employes within the
meaning of
the Railway Labor Act, as
approved June 21, 1934;
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That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the
dispute involved herein; and
That the Agreement has not been violated.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest:
C~
Nancy ver - Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 26th day of July 1985.
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