Basic Benefits The Railroad Retirement Board administers retirement/survivor and unemployment/sickness insurance benefits for railroad workers and their families. This is a governmental system/payroll tax that both Union Pacific and employees pay into over the course of their careers, and is analogous ...
First, before mechanization and computers an army of workers were needed to maintain the right-of-way, ensuring trains arrived on-time and at the proper destination. Second, during the steam era locomotives required three crewmen on the head-end (engineer, brakeman, and fireman) and two in...
Introduction The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) administers retirement, survivor, disability, unemployment, and sickness benefits for railroad workers and their families under the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA). Work for railroads enga...
Government Accountability Office concerning the function of Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). It highlights the responsibility of RRB as a federal agency that provides disability and retirement benefit programs for eligible workers and their families under the Railroad Retirement Act. It also focuses on ...
At the law firm of Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., in Houston, TX, we have over 51 years of combined experience representing railroad workers who have been injured during the course of their employment. We handle all types of railroad injuries, from head and neck injuries to back, knee and sh...
In most instances, the injured railworker is a member of a union. Unions such as the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way (BMWE), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE), both of which are under the Brotherhood of International Teamsters (BIT), have large numbers of workers in the rail...
Railroad workers during the early thirties saw an immediate need for retirement benefits, so they did not wait for social security to come around. Instead, they expanded upon and unified the existing private plans under one umbrella. This process was begun in 1934. By the time the entire ...
The government subsequently prosecuted more than two dozen former LIRR workers along with doctors and a retirement board employee. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan estimated that improper LIRR disability payouts could have topped more than $1 billion. The railroad carries c...
The Transportation Communications International Union (TCU)/International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) National President Robert Scardelletti retired July 31 after 29 years as president and after more than 53 years as a TCU/IAM member. Scardelletti was TCU’s longest ...
Payroll tax calculations are different for railroad employees and non-railroad workers.铁路雇员和非铁路工人的工资税算法是不同的。I have worked for both a railroad employer and a nonrailroad employer. As a railroad employee, certain retirement and disability benefits may be available to your non...