PROCEEDINGS BEFORE SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 280
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
Brotherhood ox" Maintenance of Way Employes ) Case No.
31
and ) Award No.
31
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
STATEMENT OF CIAIM:
Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
1. The Carrier violated the effective Agreement by failing to reimburse Welder C. R. Rodieck in the amount of
$86.90
for meal expenses
incurred during the month of March
1960,
and for other specified
amounts during the subsequent continuing months.
2. That Welder C. R. Rodieck be now compensated in the amount of
$86.90
for his meal expenses incurred during the month of March and
for his meal expenses incurred in subsequent months continuing
until this violation of the Agreement is adjusted.
FINDINGS:
Upon the whole record and all the evidence, after hearing., the Board finds
that the parties herein are carrier and employee within the meaning of the Railway
labor Act, as amended, and that this Board is duly constituted by agreement and has
jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject matter.
I-Then this Board issued its Award No. 2 in Case No. 2' it stated:
"The Interpretation of Rule
7-14
does not mention Welders and Welders
cannot be considered in the clause 'other similar positions' as their
position is not similar to a dragline operator, dragline operator helper,
weed burner operator2 or disc machine operator."
That claim was allowed for the expenses of the groceries purchased by the Welder
as that was the claim before the Board.
In this claim, the Welder asked to be reimbursed for meals that he purchased
when he was away from his designated end fixed headquarters even though an outfit
car was furnished for his convenience.
The Board finds that the claimant should be paid for the actual meal expense
that he has incurred or the actual grocery expense that he has incurred when he purchased groceries to prepare his own meal. However,, when the claimant ate his meals
at home or had his lunch prepared at home and he took it to the site of his work,
he is not entitled to reimbursement.
- 2 - Award No. 31
_- AWARD:
Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.
(s) Thomas C. Begley
Thomas C. Begley, Chairman
Ss)
A. J. Cunningham
A. J. Cunningham, Employee Member
(s) M. L. Erwin
M. L. Erwin, Carrier Member
Dated at Tyler, Texas
November 19, 1962.
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