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City of Vero Beach Fire Department. However, it is the intention of the parties heretofore, ' that the Employer obtain each and every right and privilege that is enjoyed by public employers bounded and limited by Florida Laws and the Laws of the United States. By this agreement, the Union and the Employer have agreed to certain limitations on those rights by express and specific terms of this agreement . 10 . 03 It is agreed that the management of the Employer and the managers of the Emergency Services District alone shall have authority to determine and direct the policies, mode and methods of providing its services, without any interference in the management and conduct of the County's business on the part of the Union or any of its representatives. Except as expressly limited by a specific provision of the Agreements, the Employer shall continue to have the exclusive right to take any action it deems necessary or appropriate in the management of its business and the direction of its work force. All inherent and common law management rights and functions which the Employer has not expressly modified or restricted by a specific provision of the Agreement are retained and vested exclusively in the District. Such rights exclusively reserved to the Employer shall include the right to determine the qualifications for and select its employees; to determine the size and composition of its working force, to determine work schedules and methods of providing services ; to determine the number and type of equipment, trucks, machinery, materials, products, and supplies to be used, operated, or distributed; to hire, retire, promote, demote, evaluate, transfer, suspend, assign, direct, lay off and recall employees subject to the express provisions of the agreement; to reward or to reprimand, discharge or otherwise discipline employees for just cause, to maintain efficiency of employees; to determine job content and minimum training qualifications for job classification; and the amount and type of work needed; to engage in experimental and developmental projects; to establish new jobs, abolish or change existing jobs; and increase or decrease the number of jobs or employees; to determine the assignment of work, to schedule the hours and days to be worked on each job and each shift; to discontinue, transfer, or assign all or any part of its operations; to open new facilities and transfer its operations or any part thereto to new facilities; to make studies of work loads, job assignments, methods of operation and efficiency from time to time and to make changes based on said studies; to expand, reduce, alter, combine, transfer, assign, cease or create any 9