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 0 Case No. 19
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 Y SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 122





STATR,IENT OF CLAIM:

 Claim in behalf of the sen3.or furloughed Group 1 employee who would be entitled to work on March 24 and 25, 1954, had Job 13, Teller in the Cashiers Office at Pittsburgh Freight Station, been abolished in accordance with the provisions of the Clerks? ASreement. (CL-229)

 FI1SDINGS: The Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

 The Carrier or Carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934.

 The Board has ,jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein. The parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

 Where a job is abolished in the interval between the bulletining thereof, and the awarding of the same, there is no regular incumbent thereon who is eligible for the 4$ hours advance notice which Rule 14 preserves to employees affected by a reduction in forces.

 Neither is this claim brought on behalf of Clerk Miller, nor can it be said that Rule 14 contemplates that the notice mentioaed therein shall be given to the person temporarily filling the position, pendia,- the assignment of same.

 No one havin-1 been assigned to the-position of Teller, Job 13, at Cashier?s Office, Pittsburgh Freight Station, pursuant to bulletin of March 18, 1954, the advance notice prescribed by Rule 14 was not required to be given on the occasion of the abolishment dealt with here.

 Claim denied.


                    Harold M. Gilden, Neutral and Only

                    Member Thereof


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 28, 1957.