ARTICLE 3


MANAGEMENT RIGHTS

3.1 MANAGEMENT RIGHTS

Employees and the bargaining agent recognize the prerogative of the employer, subject to the terms of this agreement, to operate and manage its affairs in such areas as, but not limited to:
  1. directing employees;
  2. hiring, promoting, transferring, assigning, and retaining employees;
  3. relieving employees from duties because of lack of work or funds or under conditions where continuation of such work would be inefficient or nonproductive;
  4. maintaining the efficiency of the employer's operations;
  5. determining the methods, means, job classification, and personnel by which the employer's operations are to be conducted;
  6. taking whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the missions of the employer in situations of emergency; and
  7. establishing the methods and processes by which work is to be performed.

(39-31-303, M.C.A.)

All rights and prerogatives of the employer which are not specifically relinquished in this agreement shall be retained by the employer. The right of the employer to promulgate and enforce reasonable work rules is expressly recognized.

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