MANAGEMENT RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS Sample Clauses

MANAGEMENT RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS. 2.1 Except as expressly modified by a specific provision of this agreement, all the authority, rights and powers which the Company had prior to the signing of this Agreement are retained by the Company and remain exclusively and without limitation the rights of management. Only express modifications contained in specific provisions of the Agreement constitute limitations upon such authority, right and powers. 2.2 Examples of the authority, rights and powers which are hereby vested in the Company, with only such modification as expressly stated in a specific provision of this Agreement, include, but are not limited to, the following: The right to schedule, adjust, and assign work and hours of employees; to assign and require overtime work; to determine the service requirements and the methods by which such service shall be given; to Ifre, promote, transfer, reclassify, suspend, discipline, demote, layoff or discharge employees; to determine the work to be done by the Company's employees; to determine the size of the workforce and the amounts and kinds of supervision necessary; to temporarily or permanently shut down its entire operation or a portion thereof; to temporarily or permanently move it entire operation or portion thereof to another location(s); to establish or change rules and safety standards; to implement of modify the Employers Handbook; to contract out work; to establish or change work standards; to establish or change standards of quality and quality of work; and to determination the creation continuance, termination, change or consolidation of jobs or of partial or total operations (including discontinuance of their performance by Company employees). If the Employer does not exercise rights reserved to it or if it exercise such rights in a particular way, it shall not be deemed a waiver (ARTICLE 2 MANAGEMENT RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS continued) of the rights or of the right to exercise such rights in other ways not in conflict with the express terms of the Agreement. 2.3 If the Employer considers contracting out additional services it will notify the Union thirty