Article VI – Deadheading

Existing rules covering deadheading are revised as follows:

Section 1 – Payment When Deadheading and Service Are Combined

1. Deadheading and service may be combined in any manner that traffic conditions require, and when so combined employees shall be paid actual miles or hours on a continuous time basis, with not less than a minimum day, for the combined service and deadheading. However, when deadheading from the away-from-home terminal to the home terminal is combined with a service trip from such home terminal to such away-from-home-terminal and the distance between the two terminals exceeds the applicable mileage for a basic day, the rate paid for the basic day mileage portions of the service trip and deadhead shall be at the full basic daily rate.
2. Employees deadheading into their home terminal can have their deadhead combined with service out of that terminal only when the deadhead and service comes within the provisions of short turnaround service rules.

Section 2 – Payment For Deadheading Separate From Service

When deadheading is paid for separate and apart from service:

(a) For Present Employees

A minimum day, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed, shall be allowed for the deadheading, unless actual time consumed is greater, in which event the latter amount shall be allowed.

(b) For New Employees

Compensation on a minute basis, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed, shall be allowed. However, if service after deadheading to other than the employee’s home terminal does not begin within 16 hours after completion of deadhead, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid. If deadheading from service at other than the employee’s home terminal does not commence within 16 hours of completion of service, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid.

A minimum of a basic day also will be allowed where two separate deadhead trips, the second of which is out of other than the home terminal, are made with no intervening service performed. Non-service payments such as held-away-from-home terminal allowance will count toward the minimum of a basic day provided in this Section 2(b).

Employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement precedes the date of this Agreement.

Employees whose earliest seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement is established after the date of this Agreement.

Section 3 – Application

Deadheading will not be paid where not paid under existing rules.

This Article shall become effective November 1, 1985 except on such carriers as may elect to preserve existing rules or practices and so notify the authorized employee representatives on or before such date.