Section 1. In accordance with the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 the Employer retains the authority:

A. To determine the mission, budget, organization, number of employees, and internal security practices of the agency.

B. In accordance with applicable laws:


1. To hire, assign, direct, lay off and retain employees in the agency or to suspend, remove reduction in grade or pay or take other disciplinary action against such employees;

2. To assign work, to make determinations with respect to contracting out, and to determine the personnel by which agency operations shall be conducted;

3. With respect to filling positions, to make selections for appointments from:


a. Among properly ranked and certified candidates for promotion; or

b. Any other appropriate source; and

4. To take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the agency mission during emergencies.

Nothing in this proposal shall preclude the Agency and the Union from negotiating:

A. Procedures which management officials of the Agency will observe in exercising any authority under this Section;

B. Appropriate arrangements for employees adversely affected by the exercise of any authority under this section by such management; or

C. At the election of the Agency, on the numbers, types and grades of employees or positions assigned to any o rganizational subdivision, work project, or tour of duty, or on the technology, methods, and means of performing work.