Common use of MANAGEMENT RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES Clause in Contracts

MANAGEMENT RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES. The Hospital retains all rights related to the direction, management, and operation of the Hospital, including but not limited to: The right to develop and determine qualifications for all new and existing positions, establish work schedules, assign work and work times, create, eliminate or modify positions, and establish and/or modify locations and standards of work. The Hospital retains the right to assess qualifications of employees, hire, fire, promote, demote, discipline, and determine when layoffs should be utilized, as well as to determine the number and kind of employees required to properly perform the work. The Hospital retains the right to introduce new or improved treatment methods, implement new technologies, determine the number and location of facilities, and discontinue or merge departments, services, and sections of the Hospital as necessary and all of the other traditional rights of the Hospital to run its business are reserved by the Hospital except for those provisions delineated in this Agreement. Management shall have the right to prescribe and enforce reasonable work rules. No such rule shall supersede a nurse’s rights under the contract and no new work rule during the term of the agreement shall materially change a nurse’s terms and conditions of employment as established at the time this agreement is ratified. Further, the Hospital retains all of the rights, powers, authority, and functions of the Hospital, which the Hospital enjoyed prior to the negotiation of this Agreement.