The rights of the City include but are not limited to the exclusive right to determine the mission of its constituent departments, commissions, and boards; set standards of service; determine procedures and standards of selection for employment and promotion; direct its employees, take disciplinary action for just cause; relieve its employees from duty because of lack of work or for other legitimate reasons; maintain the efficiency of government operations; determine the methods, means, and personnel by which government operations are to be conducted; determine the content of job classifications; take all necessary actions to carry out its mission in emergencies; and exercise complete control and discretion over its organization and technology of performing its work.  The exercise of such rights shall not preclude employees or their representatives from meeting and conferring or meeting and consulting as required by law with Management representatives about the practical consequences that decisions on these matters may have on wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
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