COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee temporarily assigned by proper authority to a position covered by this agreement paying a higher rate than the position to which he is regularly assigned for four (4) hours or more in one day will be allowed the higher rate for the entire day. An employee temporarily assigned to a position paying a higher rate of pay for less than four (4) hours in one day will be paid the higher rate on the minute basis with a minimum of one (1) hour. Except in reduction of force, the rate of an employee will not be reduced when temporarily assigned by proper authority to a lower rated position.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee directed to fill the position of another employee receiving a higher rate of pay, shall be paid the rate of such position for the work day when the time so engaged is in excess of four (4) hours.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. When a second or reserve engineer is instructed by an appropriate officer of the company to perform service as a locomotive engineer during a continuous tour of duty in road service, he will be paid for the entire tour of duty at the rate of pay of the locomotive engineer.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. When a trainman is engaged during a trip or day's work partly as a conductor and partly as a brakeman or baggageman, he will be paid for the entire service at the rate of pay of the highest rated occupation in which he was engaged.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee working one hour or more on higher rated work shall receive the higher rate for the actual time worked. If used four hours or more for such higher rated work on any day, shall be allowed the higher rate of pay for the entire day. When temporarily assigned to a lower rated position his rate of pay shall not be reduced. An employee coming within the scope of this Agreement required to and performing work during the whole or a part of his daily assignment coming within the scope of other working agreements, carrying a higher rate of pay shall be allowed actual time worked at the higher rate of compensation, with a minimum allowance of one hour.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee, temporarily assigned by proper authority to a position paying a higher rate than the position to which he is regularly assigned for four (4) hours or more in one day, will be allowed the higher rate for the entire day. Except in reduction of force, the rate of pay of an employee will not be reduced when temporarily assigned by proper authority to a lower rated position. Employees will be allowed to perform incidental tasks which are directly related to the service being performed and which they are capable of performing, provided the tasks are within the jurisdiction of the BMWE. Compensation shall be at the applicable rate for the employee performing the service and shall not constitute a basis for any time claims by other employees. This provision is not intended to alter the establishment and xxxxxxx of work forces accomplished in accordance with existing assignment, seniority, scope and classification rules. The expression "position" and "work" used in this agreement refer to service, duties or operations necessary to be performed the specified number of days per week, and not to the work week of individual employees.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee who works more than one (1) hour on a higher rated position will receive the higher rate of pay for the actual time worked on a minute basis while on that higher rated position, but if required to work a lower rated position, his rate will not be reduced.
COMPOSITE SERVICE. An employee working on more than one class of work on any day will be allowed the higher rate of pay for the actual time worked in the higher rated position. When temporarily assigned by Management to a lower-rated position, his/her rate will not be reduced.
