§ 3.70.040. Management rights.

A.

It is the right of the municipality acting through its agencies to:

1.

Determine the standards of service to be offered by its agencies;

2.

Determine the standards of selection for employment;

3.

Direct its employees;

4.

Take disciplinary action;

5.

Relieve its employees from duty because of lack of work or for other legitimate reasons;

6.

Maintain the efficiency of governmental operations;

7.

Determine the methods, means and personnel by which government operations are to be conducted;

8.

Adopt and amend a classification plan and allocate and reallocate employees to positions within the plan;

9.

Take all necessary actions to carry out its mission in emergencies; and

10.

Exercise complete control and discretion over its organization and the technology of performing its work.

B.

The municipality declares that there is nothing incompatible with the maintenance of these rights and collective bargaining as to the method of application of these rights on matters of wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment. In exercising management rights, the municipality shall ensure that, where matters of wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment are involved, all written agreements are observed. Units appropriate for collective bargaining shall be determined by the employee relations board in accordance with criteria established by the assembly in this chapter.

(AO No. 69-75; AO No. 77-376; AO No. 89-46(S-1))