(a) The employees covered in this chapter agree that all of the functions, rights, powers, responsibilities and authority of the City, in regard to the operation of its work and business and the direction of its work force, which the City has not specifically abridged, deleted, granted or modified by the express written provisions of this chapter, are and shall remain, in full force and effect, exclusively those of the City.
(b) Not to limit subsection (a) hereof, but to indicate the type of matters or rights which belong to and are inherent in the City, the City retains the right to:
(1) Discharge, transfer, suspend and discipline employees;
(2) Determine the number of persons required to be employed, laid off or discharged, except that should the City determine it necessary to lay off employees due to financial difficulties, the City shall, prior to implementing such lay-offs, give the employees the opportunity to renegotiate salaries, benefits and the like in an attempt to avoid any such lay-offs, provided that there is no violation of civil service rules and regulations in so doing;
(3) Determine, in compliance with the authority of the Civil Service Commission, the qualifications of the employees covered by this chapter;
(4) Determine the starting and quitting time and the reasonable number of hours to be worked by its employees;
(5) Make any and all reasonable rules and regulations;
(6) Determine the work assignments of its employees;
(7) Determine, in compliance with the authority of the Civil Service Commission, the basis for selection, retention and promotion of employees to or for occupations not within the bargaining unit established by this chapter;
(8) Determine the type of equipment and the nature of work processes;
(9) Determine the making of technological operations by revising either processes or equipment or both;
(10) Determine work standards and the quality and quantity of work to be produced;
(11) Select and locate buildings and other facilities;
(12) Establish, expand, transfer and/or consolidate work processes and facilities;
(13) Transfer or subcontract work;
(14) Consolidate, merge or otherwise transfer any and all of its facilities, property, processes or work with or to any other municipality or entity, or effect or change in any respect the legal status, management or responsibility of such property, facilities, processes or work;
(15) Terminate or eliminate all or any part of its work or facilities; and
(16) Require physical and psychiatric examination at the direction of the City, which examination shall be made by a physician designated and paid for by the City.
(c) This chapter shall represent all rights, privileges and benefits granted by the City to its employees, and unless specifically and expressly set forth in this chapter, all rules, regulations, practices and benefits previously granted are no longer in effect.
(Ord. 106-87. Passed 10-27-87.)