Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 27933
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MS-27654
89-3-87-3-129
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Rodney E. Dennis when award was rendered.
(L. 0. Ferguson
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Norfolk Southern Corporation
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
"On April 24, 1986 I requested a hearing as provided for in Rule 15
of the Schedule Agreement between NS Corp. and BRAC, eff. June 1, 1982. _NS
Corp, has refused to grant me a hearing for unjust treatment. I had exer
seniority on a position in the Manager Material Accounts Office and had been
granted that job but carrier refused to let me occupy that position and
instead forced me to occupy a 'Key Punch operator' job, against my objection."
FINDINGS:
The Third Division of the Adjustment Board upon the whole record and
all the evidence, finds that:
The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this
dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the
Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.
This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the
dispute involved herein.
Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.
Claimant, was at the time of the incident that gave rise to this
Claim employed as a Clerk in Carrier's Tariff Bureau in Roanoke. It appears
from the record that Claimant and other employes in the department at times
did not get along and friction resulted. Carrier directed Claimant to submit
to an examination by a psychiatrist. Claimant was diagnosed as having a
personality disorder, mixed with passive-aggressive and paranoid features.
Carrier's medical director determined that Claimant could not be returned to
service in the Tariff Bureau.
Claimant was eventually placed in a vacant position in the Mechanical
Department. He was not allowed to exercise seniority to any other position.
As a result of these actions by Carrier, Claimant requested an Unjust Treatment Hearing under Rule 1
disqualification must proceed under the machinery for resolving such disputes
contained in Rule 42, not Rule 15.
Form 1 Award No. 27933
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This Board has reviewed the record and agrees with Carrier's position. Procedures to challenge m
42, paragraph (a)2. That paragraph makes allowance for revision of Claimant's
medical status by a three (3) doctor panel. That is the avenue Claimant
should have followed and not requested an Unjust Treatment Hearing authorized
by Rule 15. Due to the passage of time, it appears that Claimant has moved to
a job he wants and the unjust treatment issue is now moot.
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
;Attest:
ancy J. Dev owecutive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 6th day of June 1989.