Employer and Association Responsibility. The parties are firmly committed to affirmative action and as such accept their responsibility to ensure equal opportunity in all aspects of employment for all qualified persons regardless of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, status with regard to public assistance, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, membership or non- membership in the Association, or any other class or group distinction, as set forth by State or Federal anti-discrimination laws.
Employer and Association Responsibility. A. The Employer hereby reserves and retains unto itself all power, rights, authorities, duties and responsibilities conferred upon and vested in it by the laws and constitutions of the State of Michigan and of the United States. The management of the business of the Employer is vested exclusively in it and the Employer reserves to itself all management and administrative functions including but not limited to, the full and exclusive control of the content and work and the direction and supervision and the operation of the County business and of the employees of the County. This authority of management shall include, among others, the right to hire new employees, to direct the working force, to discipline, suspend or discharge for just cause, to establish classifications, lay-off employees because of lack of work or elimination of departments, to combine or split up departments, to determine starting and quitting times and shift schedules, to establish overtime hours to be worked, to decide on functions to be performed, to establish methods for recording work hours of employees (other than by the use of time clocks), to establish standards of quality, all of which shall be subject to and be in conformity with the application of express provisions of this Agreement. These rights are not all inclusive but are merely an indication of the type of matters and rights which belong to and are part of the management of the business of the County. Any powers or authorities of the Employer which are not abridged, delegated or modified specifically by this Agreement are retained by the Employer.
