Illustration of management rights. When not in conflict with any other provision of law and this Agreement, such inherent management rights shall include, by the way of illustration but not by limitation, the right of the Board and its designated administrative agents to:
Illustration of management rights. Without limiting the generality and breadth of the foregoing Section A, and by way of illustration, the Hospital's sole, exclusive and unilateral rights shall include, but are not confined to, at least the following:
1. To direct, supervise and manage the working force;
2. To determine whom to employ, including the qualifications, recruitment, selection, and hiring of Employees;
3. To establish the initial rate of pay for each newly hired Employee;
4. To train, promote, demote, transfer, xxxxxx and recall Employees;
5. To discipline and discharge Employees for just cause;
6. To create, establish, adopt, change or rescind Hospital rules, guidelines, policies and procedures governing work, conduct, attendance, safety, and the use of Hospital facilities, equipment, and systems;
7. To establish and alter the size and composition of the work force;
8. To establish and alter the number and qualifications of Employees that may be assigned to any unit, procedure, group of patients, or job;
9. To establish and alter job duties and the division of duties between job classifications and the employees within those classifications;
10. To specify work requirements and assign work duties;
11. To establish and alter the number, qualifications and identity of Employees assigned to any particular shift or operation;
12. To establish and alter staffing levels and/or ratios;
13. To establish and alter the schedule of operations and hours of work, including the number and hours of work per day and per week, the number of shifts required, the starting and ending times of such shifts, the number and length of any break times and meal times during each shift,
14. To establish and alter working schedules;
15. To place Employees on call to ensure availability of staff;
16. To hire and utilize personnel from outside the bargaining unit including from nursing registries and other temporary help agencies for designated periods of time;
17. To assign or allow persons employed in supervisory, managerial, or other non-bargaining unit positions to perform bargaining unit work;
18. To establish, alter, and direct policies, modes and methods of providing patient care;
19. To establish, alter, and enforce standards for the quality and quantity of work required to be performed in all jobs;
20. To alter, rearrange, change, extend, limit, curtail, suspend, cease or close any or all of its services or operations;
21. To contract out, subcontract, and/or sell any bargaining unit work or services...
Illustration of management rights. Except as hereinafter provided, and subject to this Agreement and past practices, management rights hereby reserved and retained by the Employer shall include without limitation the right to determine, modify, control, implement and effect the Press’s mission, programs, publications, objectives, activities, resources, and priorities; to direct, modify and control Press operations; to establish, maintain, or discontinue personnel, budgetary and financial policies, practices and procedures for the conduct of the business; to determine, and from time to time redetermine the number, location and types of its operations, and the methods, processes, equipment, technologies, and materials to be employed; to restructure and reorganize its operations; to have sole editorial oversight and to exercise sole authority on all decisions involving editorial content for all or any part of the Press’s operations; to discontinue the process or operation in whole or in part, or to discontinue the performance of such methods by employees of the Employer, and to contract out any or all such operations; to transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of its business in whole or in part; to select and to determine and, from time to time, redetermine the number and types of employees required; to determine the qualifications of employees; to determine the amount of overtime to be worked; to assign work to such employees in accordance with the requirements determined by management; to determine the work to be done and the performance, conduct, order, and safety standards to be met by employees covered by this Agreement; to direct and supervise employees; to evaluate the performance of employees; to establish and change work schedules and assignments; to recruit and hire, and to establish, eliminate, or change classifications; to promote employees, or to lay off, terminate, or otherwise relieve employees from duty for lack of work or other legitimate reasons; to make, modify, rescind, and enforce reasonable rules for the maintenance of discipline, the protection of life and property, and the efficient and proper conduct and management of its business; to suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees for just cause; and otherwise to take such measure as management may determine to be necessary for the orderly conduct or economical operation of the Press.
