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ARTICLE 7
<br /> MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
<br /> 7.1 Except as otherwise specifically limited in this agreement, the Union recognizes
<br /> and agrees that the supervision, management, control and determination of the
<br /> County business, operations, working force, equipment, and facilities are
<br /> exclusively vested in the County and its designated officials, administrators,
<br /> managers, and supervisors. The County alone shall have the authority to
<br /> determine and direct policies, mode, and methods of providing its services and
<br /> unilaterally set the standards for same, without any interference in the
<br /> management and conduct of the County's business by the Union or any of its
<br /> representatives. Except as expressly limited by a specific provision of this
<br /> agreement, the County shall continue to have the exclusive right to take any
<br /> action it deems necessary or appropriate in the management of its business and
<br /> the direction of its work force. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
<br /> such rights exclusively reserved to the County shall include but not be limited to
<br /> its right to determine the existence or nonexistence of facts which are the basis
<br /> of management decisions; the right to determine the size and composition of its
<br /> work forces; to determine the existence of a job vacancy; to temporarily fill
<br /> vacancies; to hire new employees from the outside at any level; to select,
<br /> reinstate, retire, promote, demote, evaluate, transfer, suspend, assign, direct,
<br /> lay-off and recall employees subject to the express provisions of this agreement;
<br /> to determine the fact of lack of work; to determine questions of physical fitness,
<br /> skills and ability of employees to perform the work; to reward or reprimand, dis-
<br /> charge or otherwise discipline employees; to maintain the minimum quali-
<br /> fications/certifications for job classifications and the amount and type of work
<br /> needed; to engage in experimental and development projects; to determine what
<br /> records are to be made and kept, including those records relating to hours of
<br /> work of employees, who will make and keep the records, how the records are to
<br /> be made and kept; to establish new jobs, abolish or change existing jobs; to
<br /> determine the assignment of work; to contract out or subcontract work; to
<br /> schedule the hours and days to be worked on each job and to make time studies
<br /> of work loads, job assignments, methods of operation and efficiency from time to
<br /> time and to make changes based on said studies; to expand, reduce, alter,
<br /> combine, transfer, assign, cease, create, or restructure any department or
<br /> operation for business purposes; to control, regulate, and determine the number,
<br /> type and use of supplies, machinery, equipment, vehicles, and other property
<br /> owned, used, possessed or leased by the County; to introduce new, different or
<br /> improved methods, means and processes of County services and operations; to
<br /> make or change rules and regulations, policies and practices for the purpose of
<br /> efficiency, safe practices and discipline; and otherwise generally to manage the
<br /> County, direct the work force, and establish terms and conditions of employment,
<br /> except as modified or restricted by a provision of this agreement.
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