Article 3 | Employer Rights

Section 1

A. The Employer retains the right:

1. to determine the mission, budget, organization, number of employees, and internal security practices of the Agency;
2. to hire, assign, direct, layoff and retain employees, or to suspend, remove, reduce in grade or pay, or take other disciplinary action against employees;
3. to assign work, to make determinations with respect to contracting out, and to determine the personnel by which operations shall be conducted;
4. 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
5. to take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the mission during emergencies.

B. The Employer also retains its permissive rights under 5 U.S.C. § 7106(b)(1).

Section 2
The Employer retains all other rights in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, except for those specific modifications contained in this Agreement.