MANAGEMENT CLAUSE. The Employer shall remain vested with all management functions, including but not limited to, the direction of the staff, the full and exclusive right to hire, promote, demote, discharge for cause, discipline employees consistent with a merit system of personnel management; to promulgate rules and regulations governing the conduct of employees and to require their observance; to make temporary job assignments necessary to ensure the efficient performance of work; to control the use of vacations so as not to jeopardize the functions of the Employer; to establish and direct the location and methods of work, job assignments and work schedules; to maintain order and efficiency; to determine the hours of work including starting and quitting time, length of work week; and to accomplish the reduction of the work force for efficiency purposes, to control, direct and supervise all equipment, subject to the terms of this Agreement. The Employer further reserves the exclusive right to subcontract any work or public services and to merge any of said work or public services with other governmental entities, provided that the Union shall be notified thirty (30) days in advance of such subcontracting if it will result in direct layoffs. During such thirty (30) day period the City and the Union will meet to review economic conditions, methods to achieve cost savings, methods to improve efficiencies and other ways to avoid such layoffs. The Employer agrees to exercise all reasonable effort possible to find suitable placement with city employment for any employees affected by subcontracting on the part of the Employer. Further, when it is necessary for the Employer to accomplish the reduction of the workforce for efficiency and economic purposes, the Employer shall do so whenever possible or practicable by means of attrition.
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