In
accordance with the letter of understanding dated
Subject-RE Engineer Familiarization pay Former BN Territories
I have discussed this issue with my
guys on the proper application for payment for engineers required to make
familiarization/qualifying trips and have been told that this dispute has
arisen before. It was resolved by my
predecessor with the BN BLE-T committee as follows:
“Once assigned either a pool turn or
extra board, and engineer can be required to make familiarization or qualifying
trips at any time. We can call him off
his turn or extra board
at any time as long as he is rested to make these trips and all
he is entitled to would be a basic day at the GREB rate of pay for each trip or
tour of duty. If he refuses to go when
called off his turn, then we would have the right to remove him from that turn
or extra board and he now qualifies on his own time.
However, if we allow the individual
to stay on his turn/.extra board position and work up to first out and call him
to work his regular turn with another engineer called as a pilot, the we owe
him the line miles or trip rate (if applicable) for that tour of duty”
If you have further questions
regarding this application, give me a call
RLL
The
following to apply, this after communication with Timekeeping:
If called
to perform service on a territory where familiarization is necessary and
allowed to become first out either on the pool owner’s rotation or extra board
position, using Code FE state, “Allow working locomotive engineer’s trip rate
earnings including the Code SPD and Code CP account first out and called to work
his/her regular assignment with another locomotive engineer as a pilot.” This
is to go on the working timeslip.
If
instructed to familiarize either off-turn or on rest as stated above the claim
for a basic day at Locomotive Engineer’s Guaranteed Extra Board rate on a
stand-alone (1B) Timeslip claiming the appropriate
information (Train Symbol, On Duty time and date, Territory Traversed, etc.) to
establish the validity of the service performed.