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ARTICLE 6MANAGEMENT RIGHTSSection 1. Rights Retained. The Employer retains the right to determine the mission, budget,organization, number of employees, and internal security practices of the agency; and inaccordance with applicable lawsa. To hire, assign, direct, lay off, and retain employees, or to suspend, remove, reduce ingrade or pay, or take other disciplinary action against employees;b. To assign work, to make determinations with respect to contracting out, and to determinethe personnel by which the Employer's operations shall be conducted;c. With respect to filling positions, to make selections for appointments from among properlyranked and certified candidates for promotion or from any other appropriate source; andd. To take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the Agency mission in situations ofemergency.Section 2. Future Agreements. The requirements of this Article shall apply to all supplemental,implementing, subsidiary, or informal agreements between the Employer and the Union.Section 3. The right to bargain over the impact of any decision involving a retained right, and theright to negotiate procedures implementing such decisions, shall not be abridged by anything inthis Article.Section 4. Nothing in this section shall preclude the Employer and the Union from negotiatinga. Procedures which management officials of the agency will observe in exercising anyauthority under this section; orb. Appropriate arrangements for employees adversely affected by the exercise of anyauthority under this section by such management officials.Section 5. Wherever language in the agreement refers to specific duties or responsibilities ofspecific employees or management officials, it is intended only to provide a guide as to how asituation may be handled. It is agreed that the Employer retains the sole discretion to assign workand to determine who will perform the function discussed.8