(A) As to all employees covered by the city's contract with Local Union No. 1093, Council No. 8, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, as set forth in Ordinance 85-53, passed September 17, 1985, as amended by Ordinance 85-58, passed October 1, 1985, the proper appointing authority shall determine at his or her sole discretion in what classification each employee in his or her department shall be placed, agreeable with civil service laws and regulations. The proper appointing authority shall determine, on an individual basis, at which step within the appropriate classification position and pay range an individual hired will be compensated. All salaries so fixed shall be payable biweekly.
(B) All employees shall abide by the rules and regulations set up for their department and/or changes to such rules and regulations or orders issued from time to time by the heads of departments or the Safety-Service Director.
(C) (1) The duties of an employee in his or her department shall be determined from the nature of the work implied by his or her title as fixed by state law and ordinances of the city and as ordered by the Mayor, the proper appointing authority or the department supervisor. The proper appointing authority or supervisor shall determine the number of hours of service to be performed or approve the number of hours worked by payroll, unless otherwise provided in this section or by other ordinances.
(2) All prior service shall be allowed in determining salary and wage scales. No overtime shall be allowed unless approved by the supervisor of the department in which the employee serves and by the proper appointing authority.
(D) Rights of city as employer include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Hiring, discharging, transferring to another department or classification, suspending and disciplining employees;
(2) Determining work assignments, work standards and quality standards;
(3) Selecting work locations;
(4) Determining the types of equipment to be used;
(5) Determining the sequence of work processes;
(6) Setting work hours, according to the agreement with AFSCME Local 1093;
(7) Regulating overtime;
(8) Consolidating or merging any or all of the city's facilities, properties, processes or work with or to any other municipality or entity; and
(9) Affecting or changing in any respect the legal status, management or responsibility of the employer's property, facilities or processes of work.
(E) All of the functions, rights, powers and responsibilities, and the authority of the city as employer in regard to the operation of its work force, which the city has not specifically abridged, deleted, granted or modified by the express and specific written provisions of the city's agreement with Local 1093, are and shall remain exclusively those of the city.
(`82 Code, § 244.03) (Ord. 81-57, passed 6-2-81; Am. Ord. 85-53, passed 9-17-85)