Common use of Source of Rights Clause in Contracts

Source of Rights. It is agreed that the Employer hereby retains and reserves unto itself, without limitation and without prior negotiations with the Union, all the powers, rights, authority, duties and responsibilities enumerated in the Revised School Code or any successor statute and conferred upon and vested in it by the laws and the Constitutions of the State of Michigan and the United States, including, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rights to: 1. The executive management and administrative control of the school district, its properties, equipment, facilities, and operations and to direct the activities and affairs of its employees; 2. Hire all employees and determine their qualifications and the conditions of their continued employment; 3. Promote, transfer and assign all employees; 4. Determine the size of the work force, and to expand or reduce the work force; 5. Establish, continue or revise policies and adopt work rules and regulations; 6. Dismiss, demote and discipline employees; 7. Establish, modify or change any work, business or school hours or days; 8. Determine the services, supplies and equipment for its operations and to determine all methods and means of distributing, disseminating and/or delivering its services and methods, schedules and standards of operation, the means, methods and processes of carrying on the work, including automation or subcontracting thereof or changes therein, and the institution of new and/or improved methods; 9. Determine the number and location or relocation of its facilities, including the establishment or relocations of new schools, buildings, departments, divisions thereof and the relocation or closing of offices, departments, divisions or subdivisions, buildings or other facilities; 10. Determine the financial policies, including all accounting procedures, and all matters pertaining to public relations and determine the size of its administrative organization, its functions, authority, amount of supervision and table of organization.