Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 28268
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-27714
90-3-87-3-173
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee Irwin M. Lieberman when award was rendered.
(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
(Burlington Northern Railroad Company (formerly The
Colorado and Southern Railway Company)
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
Trackman R. Nanney shall be compensated for all wage loss suffered by
him (ten days) and allowed expenses incurred by him as a result of being improperly withheld from se
(System File BN-20-85/DMWD 84-12-04A)."
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 waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.
Claimant was withheld from service from August 27 to September 5,
1985, on medical leave of absence. He had taken a return to service physical
examination on May 29, 1985, which included a drug screening test. He had
been assigned to work on a regular basis after his physical examination. By
letter dated June 20, 1985, he was informed that the drug screening test
showed the presence of an illegal drug and he was instructed to report to the
Employee Assistance Counselor within seven days. This he failed to do. Subsequently he was removed f
for purposes of an evaluation by the Employee Assistance Counselor.
This dispute, but for the dates and the Claimant, is identical to the
dispute handled by this Board in Award 28267. The arguments and the rationale
used in the determination in that case is entirely applicable to this matter.
For the reasons specified in Award 28267 this Claim also must be denied.
Form 1 Award No. 28268
Page 2 Docket No. MW-27714
90-3-87-3-173
A W A R D
Claim denied.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
Attest
ancy J. r- Executive Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of February 1990.