Some Specific Management Rights Sample Clauses

Some Specific Management Rights. The Union acknowledges that all rights and prerogatives of management which the Employer had prior to the execution of this Agreement are retained exclusively by the Employer, without limitation, except as specifically modified by the express terms of this Agreement, including, but not limited to: the right to operate and manage its business in accordance with its commitments, responsibilities and other contractual obligations, the right to maintain order, discipline and efficiency; the right to make, initiate, alter and enforce employee rules, regulations, policies and procedures; the right to discipline and discharge employees for cause; the right to select, hire, train, direct and control the employees; the right to determine employee eligibility requirements; the right to determine and enforce training requirements and standards; the right to transfer, assign, promote, demote, classify, reclassify, lay-off, recall, replace, sus- pend and retain employees; the right to recognize employees for meritorious performance; the right to introduce new and eliminate or change existing equipment, machinery, services or processes; the right to make studies of work loads and institute changes in work loads and job assignments; the right to xx- xxxxxxx the existence or non-existence of facts which are the basis of any and all management decisions; the right to plan, direct and control operations; the right to select and retain employees for positions excluded from the bargaining unit; the right to determine the location and extent of its operations and their com- mencement, expansion, curtailment or discontinuance in whole or in part; the right to control productivity; the right to determine standards, methods and means of work; the right to determine the job content and requirements of any job or classification; the right to determine the number and qualifications of employees needed by the Employer at any time and the number of employees who shall operate on any given job, operation or unit and number of hours and shifts to be worked; and the right to maintain or establish standards of quality and quantity to be maintained. Management rights will be exercised in a manner that does not violate the terms of this Agreement. The above enumeration of rights is by way of example and is not a limitation of the Employer’s rights to manage its business without interference, which rights are solely and exclusively the rights of the Employer.