(a) All new Policies, Procedures, or Regulations shall be determined by the City and shall be promulgated from the Department of Human Resources. Divisional Agreements shall be agreements that are not management rights, and must be mutually agreed to by the Union and the City.
(b) When existing Policies, Procedures, or Regulations are changed or new Policies, Procedures, or Regulations are established, they shall be posted prominently on all bulletin boards for a period of twenty (20) consecutive work days before becoming effective. The City shall furnish each employee in the affected operation with a copy of all newly established sets of Policies, Procedures, or Regulations within ten (10) days after they become effective. New employees shall be provided with a copy of the Policies, Procedures, or Regulations at the time of hire.
(c) No Divisional Agreements will contain any provision relating to minimum manning requirements or mandatory filling of positions by overtime where no work exists for those positions. It is the inherent right of the City of Toledo to determine the numbers and levels of the work force within the operations of the various plants within the City.
(d) All Policies, Procedures, or Regulations shall be reasonable and shall be uniformly applied and uniformly enforced.
(e) Sets of work rules in existence before 1988 that have not been addressed since shall be subject to the following renegotiation procedure during the first eighteen (18) months of this agreement. The objective of this procedure will be to separate management rights items from Divisional Agreement issues.
Items in those rules that are not management rights and over which this contract requires mutual agreement, or items that are not management rights and complement or clarify the contract's application in that division shall be included in a Divisional Agreement. Such items may be revised by mutual agreement. Items not included in the Divisional Agreement may be issued by the City following the procedure set forth in parts (a) through (d) above. Where agreement cannot be reached over whether an item belongs in a Divisional Agreement or the Policies and Procedures, the matter shall be submitted for resolution to the Director of Human Resources level, and if not resolved, to binding expedited arbitration utilizing the procedure set forth in Section 2117.24, “Expedited Labor Arbitration Rules”, herein.
(f) Divisional agreements may be modified in accordance with changes adopted under a T.Q.M. process developed under Section 2117.38, “Partners in Excellence”.