Union recognizes and agrees that the right to plan, direct and control the City's
business, methods, operations and working force; to hire, promote, transfer and
temporarily assign bid positions for absences in excess of 45 days, and lay off
employees, to grant leave, and lawfully and for just and proper cause, to demote,
discipline, suspend or discharge employees; and the right to determine the hours
and schedules of work and the work tasks and standards of performance for
employees, is vested exclusively in the City. The foregoing shall not be taken,
however, as a limitation upon the rights of the Union to negotiate for working
conditions and represent the employees covered hereby in the procedures provided
in this agreement and nothing in this agreement shall be so interpreted as to change
any benefits now enjoyed by employees unless such change 1s specifically covered
in provisions of this agreement other than this Article 4.
Article 5 - CONFORMITY WITH LAWS, CHARTER AND RULES AND
REGULATIONS
Mindful of all existing New Hampshire laws, the City of Nashua Charter and
Ordinances provisions, rules and regulations of the Nashua Fire Department and
every other applicable law, all provisions of this agreement shall be subject to and
consistent with such laws and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Board of
Fire Commissioners. The Union will be informed of any new rules and regulations
to be applied after the signing of this agreement and any such new rules and
regulations shall not be in conflict with or supersede any other provisions of this
agreement. The City of Nashua and the Board of Fire Commissioners agree not to
make any law or regulation or to adopt rules relative to the terms and conditions of
employment that would invalidate any portion of this agreement.
Article 6 - INDEMNIFICATION
The City will maintain in effect for the life of this agreement and will have all Fire
Department personnel named as insureds thereunder, the public liability insurance
in force on the effective date of this agreement, provided, however, that if the City
is unable to procure and maintain such insurance, it will indemnify the members of
the bargaining unit in the same manner and to the same extent as the City's present
insurance coverage now provides.
