Management of Service. The Union acknowledges that it is the exclusive right and function of the Centre to manage the Service and all its programs in all respects and in accordance with its rights and obligations, except as expressly modified or restricted by a specific provision of this Agreement, and without restricting the generality of the foregoing: a. To hire employees, determine their qualifications and assign and direct their work, to promote, demote, transfer, lay off, recall to work, and return employees; to set the standards of productivity, the services to be rendered; b. To reprimand, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees for just cause; to determine the number of employees to be employed; to determine the amount and forms of compensation of employees; c. To maintain the efficiency of operations; to determine the personnel, methods, means and facilities by which operations are conducted; to set the starting and quitting time and the number of hours and shifts to be worked; to close down or relocate the Centre's operations or any part thereof; to expand, reduce, alter, combine, transfer, assign, or cease any job, department, operation, or service; to control and regulate the use of facilities, equipment, and other property of the Centre; d. To introduce new or improved research, service, and machinery; to determine the number, location and operation of departments, divisions, and all other units of the Centre; to issue, amend and revise policies, reasonable rules, regulations, and practices.
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