Title 4 - Management Rights

Subject to State law relating to requirements to meet and confer in good faith and the provisions of the Modesto Irrigation District Employer/Employee Relations Resolution, the management of the District and its business and the direction of the employees are vested exclusively in the District through its Board of Directors and management. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

To determine the mission or areas of responsibility or activity of its constituent departments; to fix and determine standards of service; to determine the procedures and standards of selection for employment and promotion; to direct and supervise the work of its employees; to suspend, promote, demote, transfer, discipline, and discharge employees for cause; to require employees to work overtime; to determine the method and means to relieve its employees from duty because of lack of work or other lawful reasons; to maintain the efficiency of the District's operations, to determine the methods, means and personnel by which the District's operations and functions are to be conducted and discharged; to determine style and/or types of District-issued wearing apparel, equipment or technology to be used; to establish employee performance standards including, but not limited to, quality and quantity standards, and to require compliance therewith; to determine and/or change the facilities, methods, technology, means, organizational structure, size and composition of the work force and allocate and assign work by which the District operations are to be conducted, including the right to contract; to determine the content of job classifications; to establish and change work schedules and assignments upon reasonable notice; to take all necessary actions to carry out its functions in emergencies; to determine processes and materials to be used in carrying out all District functions; to exercise complete control and discretion over its organization and the manner or technology of performing its missions or functions as an Irrigation District providing water and power. However, these management rights may be exercised by the District only to the extent not in conflict with the provisions of applicable law, or this Memorandum.