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RULE 49 - HEAD-END PASS

 

      The General and District Chairmen or his designated representative of the Union signatory hereto will be provided with a head-end pass to ride all NJT Rail equipment.

                               

                                                   RULE 50 - CREW BOARDS

 

      Crew boards will be maintained in the same location and the same manner as maintained effective December 31, 1982.

 

RULE 51 - ENGINE CHANGE SERVICE

 

      It shall be the work of Engineers to perform any or all of the following service in connection with the movement of engines coupled in multiple and/or not coupled in multiple:

 

(1.) Move engines between any points in a terminal.

 

                         (2.) Deliver and/or pick up engine(s) within a terminal.

           

            (3.) Deliver and/or pick up engine(s) outside a terminal.

 

            (4.) Couple engines to trains and make necessary tests.

 

RULE 52 - PROMOTION TO SUPERVISORY OR OFFICIAL POSITIONS

 

Engineers in service will be given consideration for supervisory or official positions as opportunity may offer.

RULE 53 - EYE CARE

 

      (a.) Effective July 1, 1983, NJT Rail shall provide an Eye Care Program during the term of this agreement.  The coverage shall provide for a $25.00 payment for regular prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses or $30.00 for bifocal glasses or more complex prescriptions.  Included are all employees and their eligible dependents.  The extension of benefits to dependents shall be effective only after the employee has been continuously employed for a minimum of sixty (60) days.

 

      (b.) Employees and eligible dependents as defined above shall be eligible for a maximum payment of $25.00 or the cost, whichever is less, of an eye examination by an Ophthalmologist or an Optometrist.

 

      (c.) Effective January 1, 1989, each eligible employee and dependent will receive only one (1) payment for glasses and one (1) payment for examination every two (2) years.  Submission of receipts is required of the employees in order to receive payments.

                    

RULE 54 - SEVERABILITY

 

      If any Rule or provision of this Agreement is at any time determined to be in conflict with any law, such Rule or provision will continue in effect only to the extent permitted by law.  If any Rule of provision of this Agreement is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect or impair any other term or provision of this Agreement.

 

RULE 55 - PENSION

 

      (a.) Effective July 1, 1989, there shall be established a Section 401(a), Money Purchase Pension Plan (a summary of which is appended hereto as Appendix 5).  In addition, the parties agree that as soon as administratively possible, a Section 457, Employee Savings Plan, will be implemented, the details of which will be worked out by Counsel for both parties.  In the event of any inconsistencies between the attached summary and the plan documents, the plan documents shall govern.

 

      (b.) There will be created a Pension Advisory Committee composed of representatives of the B of LE.  The purpose of the Pension Advisory Committee is to provide non-binding advice to the NJTRO Board regarding the Section 401(a) and Section 457 Plans established pursuant to this Agreement.

 

·          See Appendix 5 - Money Purchase Pension Plan, page 71.

·         See Appendix 12 - Conrail Supplemental Pension Plan, page 87.

 

 

 

RULE 56 - MUTUAL AGREEMENT

 

      (a.) NJT Rail and the Union acknowledge this Agreement, together with its Appendices, to be their complete Agreement inclusive of all negotiable issues whether or not discussed.

 

      (b.) All rules, agreements, practices or understandings, whether written or unwritten, however established, that were in effect or existed prior to the effective date of this Agreement are terminated, and hereafter only this Agreement and its terms shall control, notwithstanding the erroneous continuation of practices inconsistent therewith.

     

      (c.) The parties will recognize the need for cooperation in and support of changes in operating practices and procedures which would result in increasing productivity to the greatest extent possible in order to provide essential and economical commuter rail service and to enhance public support for commuter rail service.

 

RULE 57 - TERM OF AGREEMENT

 

      (a.) This Agreement, together with its Appendices, shall comprise the collective bargaining agreement between NJT Rail and its employees represented by the Union.  It shall become effective July 1, 1989 and shall remain in effect until June 30, 1992 and thereafter, until changed in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended.

 

      (b.) In the event NJ Transit Rail executes an agreement for the period commencing July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992 with any of the other Unions representing its employees that contains improvements in the areas of general wage increases, basis of pay, vacation, holidays, pension, health insurance, bereavement leave or jury duty that are greater than those set forth in this Agreement, it is agreed that such improvements will be incorporated into the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Union's Agreement with NJ Transit Rail, unless such improvement(s) was made in consideration for a modification(s) in the Company's agreement with the other Union which benefits NJ Transit Rail.

 

(c.) There shall be a moratorium on the serving of Section 6 notices through April 1, 1992, any changes not to become effective before July 1, 1992.

 

Signed: February 7, 1989

 

For Brotherhood of                                                                                  For New Jersey Transit

Locomotive Engineers:                                                                                  Rail Operations, Inc.

 

(original signed by:)                                                                                      (original signed by:)

E. Dubroski                                                                                                   George Warrington

Vice President                                                                                                   Vice President &

                                                                                                                         General Manager

 

(original signed by:)             (original signed by:)

T. Abbott                         D. C. Agrawal

General Chairman                  Special Assistant to

Brotherhood of Locomotive         Vice President & General

Engineers                         Manager

                                  (original signed by:)

                                  Patricia Sebron

                                  Assistant Vice President

                                  Human Resources                                                                                                              

  

 

RULE 58 - FRA CERTIFICATION

 

Effective July 1, 1994, NJ TRANSIT will compensate current active fully qualified locomotive engineers who maintain an unrestricted FRA certification license $5.00 per shift worked.  Engineers will not receive certification allowance when receiving pay for time not worked, i.e. bereavement leave, sick leave, jury duty, holidays, personal leave, pay under the Hours of Service Law, or vacation pay.  Engineers will receive the certification allowance on quarantee days. An engineer who cannot exercise his/her seniority due to a medical restriction shall not be paid the allowance.

 

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