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CO—Company Business

The company business claim is used to claim lost wages for being marked off to attend rules classes, training classes, and witness for the company in an investigation. You are entitled to compensation whenever you are marked off per the company. There are differences between the engineer’s and the conductor’s compensation.

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CONDUCTORS:

Conductors are due for what they missed when marking off for company business

ENGINEERS:

Engineers since the implementation of the Predictable Work Schedule (PWS) system.

Engineers in self-sustaining pools engaged in company business will receive the trip rate of their assignment or a $386.17 “Company Business” payment, whichever is greater, for the first 24 hours they perform company business, beginning from when they otherwise would have been called. For every succeeding 24-hour period, or portion of the 24 hours, while engaging in company business. Engineers in general pools that are not self-sustaining will receive missed earnings based on what they would have worked. Compensation for company business will end after the company business is concluded. Engineers will be expected to mark up for service after the company business concludes and adjust their rest accordingly. The “Company Business” payment was last increased on July 1, 2019. Engineers assigned to work/rest extra boards engaged in company business will be compensated for lost earnings. In 2022, the Norfolk Southern engineers did not settle their contract on the property as in previous years. In the 2022 national contract, fixed amounts of money were addressed. These amounts were exempt from the general wage increase. Due to the status quo of agreements governed under the Railway Labor Act, these amounts remain frozen. Future increases will have to be addressed in contract negotiations.

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