C AWARD N0. 10
0 CASE N0. 10
OF CLAIM:
SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 171
BROTHERHOOD OF RAIiE7AY AND STEA14SHIP CLERICS,
FREIGHT
HANDLERS,
EXPRESS AND STATION B14PLOYES
vs
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
i7Claira of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employer
that the Carrier violated the rules of the current Agreement,
Col.
When on
May
30, 1955
they denied Jack Horns, an employs at
Helena, Montana, payment for the holiday at the straight time
rate as provided for in the agreement signed at Chicago, Illinois
on August 21,
1954.
112. That the Carrier now be required to compensate Jack Horns
for one dayps pay at the straight time rate for May
30, 1955.°°
FINDINGS: This Special Board of Adjustment upon the whole record and all the
evidence, finds that:
The carrier and the employee or employees in this dispute are respectively carrier and employees within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved
June 21,
1934.
volved herein.
This Special Hoard of Adjustment has jurisdiction over the dispute in-
Tha Employees state that the claimant was denied a holiday payment at
the straight time rate for May
30, 1955,
as provided in the Agreement of August 21,
1954.
The Carrier states that the claimant was an extra list employee at Helena,
Montana. That he filled a temporary vacancy on a regular assignment of Clerkwarehouseman Janeteki from May 26 through June
15, 1955,
while Janetski was enjoying his assigned vacation.
The Holiday Agreement of August 21,
1954,
states as follows:
'?Effective May 1,
1954,
each regularly assigned hourly and daily rated
employee shall receive eight hours9 pay at the pro rata hourly rate of
the position to which assigned for each of the following enumerated
holidays when such holiday falls on a workday of the workweek of the
individual employee:
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Award No. 10
From the evidence submitted the Board finds that this is a claim for
holiday pay for an extra man filling a temporary vacancy on a regular assignment,
That Article II, Section 1 of the Holiday Pay Agreement provides as follows:
each regularly assigned hourly and daily rated employee
Thus, the Agreement limited payment to regularly assigned employees and
does not provide for payment to an employee who is temporarily filling a position.
This claim is without merit and must be denied.
A LT A R D
Claim denied.
V
Thomas C. Beelev.
Thomas C. Begley, Chairman
Isl
Co A. Pearson,
C, A. Pearson, Carrier Member
Is,(
F. A.Emme.
F. A. Emme, Employee Member
Signed at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 10th day of April, 1957.
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