C Award No. 21
0 Case No. 27
P
Y SPiiCIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTIERIT N0. 122

THE PITTSBURGH AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY

TI-E LAKE ERI AND EASTERN RAILROAD C0:1PANY

vs

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILTIAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,

FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATIO1J ETdPLOYEES

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

Claim of Clerk James Driscoll for three hours at punitive rate covering work performed at Pittsburgh Freight Station, 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M., E.S.T., June 23, 1954. (CL-259)

FIODINGS: 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 21,7.934.

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

Receiving a briefing, at his own convenience, on tlB job outlines at a particular work station newly incorporated within his work assignment, preliminary to reporting for dray thereon, must be viewed as voluntary exertion of the type of self education or preparatory learning occasionally to be indulged in by an employee on his own time, in the interest of personal attainment and satisfactory job performance. See Award 3092, National Railroad Adjustment Board, Third Division.

Claim denied.

SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 122

Is/ Harold M. Gilden Harold M. Gilden, Neutral and Only Member Thereof.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 28, 1957.