SIDE LETTER #4 1986 NATIONAL
AGREEMENT
EXAMPLES OF
APPLICATION OF DEADHEAD RULE, ARTICLE VI
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The following examples illustrate application of
the rule to all employees regardless of when their seniority date in
engine service was established, except where specifically stated
otherwise: 1. What
payment would be due an engineer who performed road service from A, the home
terminal, to B, the away-from-home terminal, a distance of 170 miles, and
deadheaded from B to A, with the service and deadhead combined between A-B-A?
A. A
minimum day and 70 over-miles for the service and a minimum day and 70
over-miles for the deadhead. 2. What
would be the payment under Question 1 if the distance between A and B were 75
miles? A. A
minimum day and 50 over-miles. 3. What
payment would be due an engineer who performed road service from A to B, a
distance of 170 miles, taking rest at B, and then being deadheaded separate
and apart from service from B to A, with the deadhead consuming 8 hours? A. A
minimum day and 70 over-miles for the service trip from A to B, and a minimum
day at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with
which the deadheading is performed. 4. What
payment would be due an engineer who performed road service from A to B, a
distance of 170 miles, taking rest at B, and then deadheading separately from
service B to A, with the deadhead being completed in 10 hours? A. He
would be paid a minimum day and 70 over-miles for the service trip from A to
B, and 10 hours straight time rate of pay at the basic rate applicable to the
class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed. 5. An
engineer operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the away-from-
home terminal, point B, a distance of 170 miles. Upon arrival at the
away-from- home terminal, he is ordered to deadhead, separate and apart from
service, to the home terminal. The time deadheading is 5 hours. What payment
is due? A. A
minimum day plus 70 over-miles for service. A minimum day for deadhead if
employees' seniority in engine or train service antedates 6.
Would at least a minimum day at the basic rate applicable to the class of
service in connection with which the deadheading is performed be paid when a
deadhead is separate and apart from service and the actual time consumed is
the equivalent of a minimum day or less? A. Yes,
for employees whose seniority in engine or train service antedates 7. An
engineer is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50
miles, to operate a train back to point A. He is instructed to combine
deadhead and service. Total elapsed time for the deadhead and service is 7
hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due? A. A
minimum day. 8. An
engineer is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50
miles, to operate 8 train from point B to point C, a
distance of 75 miles. He is instructed to combine deadhead and service. Total
elapsed time is 10 hours. What payment is due? A. A
minimum day plus 25 over-miles. 9. An
engineer operates a train from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles. He
is ordered to deadhead back to point A, service and deadhead combined. Total
elapsed time, 8 hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due? A. A
minimum day plus 30 minutes overtime. 10. An
engineer operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the awayfrom- home terminal, point B, a distance of 275
miles. After rest, he is ordered to deadhead, separate and apart from
service, to the home terminal. Time deadheading is 9 hours, 10 minutes. What
payment is due? A. A
minimum day plus 175 over-miles for service, 9 hours, 10 minutes straight
time for the deadhead. 11. How
is an engineer to know whether or not deadheading is combined with service? A. When
deadheading for which called is combined with subsequent service, the
engineer should be notified when called. When deadheading is to be combined
with prior service, the engineer should be notified before being relieved
from service. If not so notified, deadheading and service cannot be combined. |
The following examples illustrate the application
of the rule to employees whose earliest seniority date in engine or train
service is established on or after November 1, 1985: 1. An
engineer is called to deadhead from his home terminal to an away-from-home
point. He last performed service 30 hours prior to commencing the deadhead
trip. The deadhead trip consumed 5
hours and was not combined with the service trip. The service trip out of the
away-from-home terminal began within 6 hours from the time the deadhead trip
was completed. What payment is due? A. 5
hours at the straight time rate. 2. What
payment would have been made to the engineer in example 1 if the service trip
out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 17 hours after the time the
deadhead trip ended, and the held-away rule was not applicable? A. A
minimum day for the deadhead. 3. What
payment would have been made to the engineer in example 1 if the service trip
out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 18 hours after the time the
deadhead trip ended, and the engineer received 2 hours pay under the
held-away rule? A. 6
hours at the straight time rate. 4. An
engineer is deadheaded to the home terminal after having performed service
into the away-from-home terminal. The deadhead trip, which consumed 5 hours
and was not combined with the service trlp,
commenced 8 hours after the service trip ended. What payment is due? A. 5
hours at the straight time rate. 5. What
payment would have been made to the engineer in example 4 if the deadhead
trip had begun 18 hours after the service trip ended and the held-away rule
was not applicable. A. A
minimum day for the deadhead. 6. What
payment would have been made to the engineer in example 4 if the deadhead
trip had begun 18 hours after the time the service trip ended and the
engineer received 2 hours pay under the held-away rule? A. 6
hours at the straight time rate. 7. An
engineer is deadheaded from the home terminal to an away-from-home location.
Ten (10) hours after completion of the trip, he is deadheaded to the home
terminal without having performed service. The deadhead trips each consumed
two hours. What payment is due? A. A
minimum day for the combined deadhead trips.
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