SCHOOL COMMITTEE RIGHTS. Both parties recognize that under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the School Committee has the exclusive right, responsibility, and final authority for establishing the policies for the control, direction, and management of the School Department. Therefore, it is understood and agreed that this Agreement concerns those matters of wages, hours, and conditions of employment which have been expressly bargained for and are included herein and expressly reserves those powers, prerogatives, and authority not expressly abridged or modified by this Agreement to the School Committee. Further, both parties agree that it is their responsibility to abide by the terms of this Agreement for its duration. It is agreed that management officials of the School Committee shall at all times retain the right to direct employees, to hire, promote, transfer, assign and retain employees within the School Department, and to suspend, demote, discharge, or take other disciplinary action against non-probationary employees for just cause, to relieve employees to maintain the efficiency of the operations entrusted to them, to determine the methods, means and personnel by which such operations are to be conducted, to conduct school system operations in a safe and most efficient manner, and to take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the mission of the School Department, subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE RIGHTS. Both parties recognize that under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the School Committee has the exclusive right, responsibility, and final authority for establishing the policies for the control, direction, and management of the School Department. Therefore, it is understood and agreed that this Agreement concerns those matters of wages, hours, and conditions of employment which have been expressly bargained for and are included herein and expressly reserves those powers, prerogatives, and authority not expressly abridged or modified by this Agreement to the School Committee. Further, both parties agree that it is their responsibility to abide by the terms of this Agreement for its duration. It is agreed that management officials of the School Committee shall at all times retain the right to direct employees, to hire, promote, transfer, assign and retain employees within the School Department, and to suspend, demote, discharge, or take other disciplinary action against non-probationary employees for just cause, to relieve employees to maintain the efficiency of the operations entrusted to them, to determine the methods, means and personnel by which such operations are to be conducted, to conduct school system operations in a safe and most efficient manner, and to take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the mission of the School Department, subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
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