Parties Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
 to and
 Dispute Norfolk. and Western Railway Company
 (Former Wabash Railroad)
 Statement 1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement when it discharge Laborer
 of Claim: James D. Hunter from the services of the Norfolk and Western Railway
 Company, on March 7, 1975, unfailry in violation of Rule 20.
 2. Carrier is guilty of unfair labor-practices.
 3. Carrier shall now reinstate Laborer James D. Hunter to his former
 position and he shall be paid for all time lost.

 Findings: The Board finds, after hearing upon the whole record and all evidence,
 that the parties herein are Carrier and Employee within the meaning of
 the Railway Labor Pct, as amended, that this Board is duly constituted
 by Agreement dated February 2, 1976, that it has jurisdiction of the
 parties and the subject matter, and that the parties cure given due
 notice of the hearings held.
 Claimant Laborer was hired May 17, 1973 by Carrier. Prior thereto he had
 been employed by a construction company. Claimant was dismissed by his
 Division Engineer, on March 7, 1975, due to falsifying his application
 for employment April 17, 1973. Claimant requested formal hearing which
 was held April 4, 1975 .
 As a result thereof such dismissal was sustained. Claimant was accorded
 due process and ably represented. The record contains sufficient
 evidence to support the conclusion that Claimant did, in fact, falsify
 his application for employment dated April 17, 1973. He did, in fact,
 materially misrepresent an injury received while employed with a former
 employer as well as a personal injury claim susbsequently filed against
 that Company. Said employment application contains the following state
 ment above the applicant's signature line:
 "I hereby certify that the answers in this application are true and
 complete. I understand that any falsification, misrepresentation,
 or significant omission will constitute just cause for dismissal
 regardless of when discovered."
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    . -2- Award No. 6


          All Divisions of the NRAB have consistently followed the doctrine -that obtaining employment under false pretenses is grounds for dismissal and that such a contract of employment is voidable because such applicant deliberately misled the Carrier by withholding vital information necessary to permit Carrier's proper and full determination of whether it should hire such applicant. in the circumstances, we are constrained to deny this claim.


Award: Claim denied.

 A. J ingham, anploG. C. ds, C ier MT

 ' -'wan wart, Chairman
                    and Neutral Member


                  Issued at Atlanta, Georgia, May 25, 1977.