Relief Service Sample Clauses

Relief Service. Employees utilized to fill temporary assignments or to fill vacancies temporarily during the bulletining process will be selected in the sequential order set forth in Rule 20(k). Employees filling such temporary assignments or vacancies will be allowed the rate established for the classification involved, and will be granted per diem allowances, as set forth hereinafter. When employees are sent away (more than ten (10) rail miles) from their assigned headquarters to perform relief service, such relief employees will be allowed a per diem allowance based upon the number of rail miles between their regularly assigned headquarters location and the location of the relief assignment, except in those instances where the rail mileage to the relief assignment location is less than the distance regularly traveled by the relief employee in commuting to the employee’s regularly assigned reporting point, in which event no allowance will be granted. All per diem allowances under this section, where applicable, will be allowed each day actual service is performed. The per diem allowances set forth below will be applicable in lieu of all other compensatory payments or allowances provided for in this Agreement covering travel time, automobile mileage, meals and lodging: One-Way Rail Miles From Headquarters Per Diem Allowance Location to Each Day Service Relief Assignment is Performed More AND Than Less Than 10.00 12.50 $ 1.85 12.50 17.50 3.70 17.50 22.50 7.40 22.50 27.50 11.10 27.50 32.50 14.80 32.50 37.50 18.50 37.50 -- 22.20 When an employee is assigned to perform relief service on a gang receiving one of the per diem allowances specified under this Rule 39, the employee will be granted the per diem allowance established for that gang in lieu of the allowances set forth above. There will be no duplication or combination of the per diem allowances provided in this rule.