CO - Company Business
The Company Business claim is used to claim lost wages for being marked off to attend Rules Class, Training
Classes, Witness for Company in an Investigation, whenever your marked off per the company
you are entitled compensation. There are differences between Engineers Compensation and
Conductors Compensation.
CONDUCTORS:
Conductors are due what they missed for being marked off 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 $350 `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 each succeeding 24 hour period,
or portion of the 24 hour period, they are engaged in company business engineers
will receive the trip rate of their assignment. Compensation for company business
ends at the conclusion of the company business and engineers are expected to
promptly mark -up for service. The $350 'Company Business' payment will increase
to $360.50 effective July 1, 2017; to $371.32 effective July 1, 2018; and
$386.17 effective July 1, 2019. Engineers assigned to work /rest extra boards
engaged in company business will be compensated lost earnings. These changes to compensation for company business will be effective November 12, 2016.
