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• Emergency Mode Operation Plan Contractor must establish a documented plan to enable continuation of critical business processes and protection of the security of electronic County PHI or PI in the event of an emergency. Emergency means any circumstance or situation that causes normal computer operations to become unavailable for use in performing the work required under this Agreement for more than twenty-four (24) hours.

• PARTICIPATION, CONTRACT ACCESS, AND PARTICIPATING ENTITY REQUIREMENTS A. PARTICIPATION. Sourcewell’s cooperative contracts are available and open to public and nonprofit entities across the United States and Canada; such as federal, state/province, municipal, K-12 and higher education, tribal government, and other public entities. The benefits of this Contract should be available to all Participating Entities that can legally access the Equipment, Products, or Services under this Contract. A Participating Entity’s authority to access this Contract is determined through its cooperative purchasing, interlocal, or joint powers laws. Any entity accessing benefits of this Contract will be considered a Service Member of Sourcewell during such time of access. Supplier understands that a Participating Entity’s use of this Contract is at the Participating Entity’s sole convenience and Participating Entities reserve the right to obtain like Equipment, Products, or Services from any other source. Supplier is responsible for familiarizing its sales and service forces with Sourcewell contract use eligibility requirements and documentation and will encourage potential participating entities to join Sourcewell. Sourcewell reserves the right to add and remove Participating Entities to its roster during the term of this Contract.

• Switching System Hierarchy and Trunking Requirements For purposes of routing ECI traffic to Verizon, the subtending arrangements between Verizon Tandem Switches and Verizon End Office Switches shall be the same as the Tandem/End Office subtending arrangements Verizon maintains for the routing of its own or other carriers’ traffic (i.e., traffic will be routed to the appropriate Verizon Tandem subtended by the terminating End Office serving the Verizon Customer). For purposes of routing Verizon traffic to ECI, the subtending arrangements between ECI Tandem Switches and ECI End Office Switches shall be the same as the Tandem/End Office subtending arrangements that ECI maintains for the routing of its own or other carriers’ traffic.

• Individual Flexibility Arrangements 38.1 Where the Employer wants to enter into a individual flexibility arrangement (IFA) it must provide a written proposal to the Employee. Where the Employee’s understanding of written English is limited, the Employer must take measures, including translation into an appropriate language, to ensure the Employee understands the proposal. 38.2 The Employer and an Employee covered by this Agreement may agree to make an IFA to vary the effect of terms of the Agreement if: (a) it deals with one or more of the following matters: (i) Time between which ordinary hours are worked; (ii) Salary sacrifice Agreements; (iii) Reduction in ordinary hours; (iv) Increase in annual leave accrual each year; (v) Increase in rate of accrual of Rostered days off; (vi) Increase in wages; (vii) Increase in training leave (Union or otherwise); (b) The IFA meets the genuine needs of the Employer and the Employee covered by this Agreement in relation to one or more of the matters mentioned in paragraph (a) above; and (c) The IFA is genuinely agreed to by the Employer and the Employee. 38.3 The Employer must ensure that the terms of the IFA: (a) are about permitted matters under section 172 of the FW Act; and (b) are not unlawful terms under section 194 of the FW Act; and (c) result in the Employee being better off overall than the Employee would be if no IFA was made. 38.4 The Employer must also ensure that any such IFA is: (a) in writing (including details of the terms that will be varied, how the IFA will vary the effect of the Enterprise Agreement terms, how the Employee will be better off overall in relation to the terms and conditions of his or her employment as a result of the IFA, and the day on which the IFA commences); (b) includes the name of the Employer and Employee; (c) signed by the Employer and the Employee, and if the Employee is under 18, by a parent or guardian of the Employee; and (d) provided to the Employee within 14 days after it is agreed to. 38.5 The Employer or Employee may terminate the IFA by either the Employer or Employee giving written notice of not more than 28 days, or at any time by both parties agreeing in writing. 38.6 Where any of the requirements of ss 202 and 203 of the FW Act are not met, the IFA is of no effect.

• Admission of the Corporate Taxpayer into a Consolidated Group; Transfers of Corporate Assets (a) If the Corporate Taxpayer is or becomes a member of an affiliated or consolidated group of corporations that files a consolidated income tax return pursuant to Sections 1501 et seq. of the Code or any corresponding provisions of state or local law, then: (i) the provisions of this Agreement shall be applied with respect to the group as a whole; and (ii) Tax Benefit Payments, Early Termination Payments and other applicable items hereunder shall be computed with reference to the consolidated taxable income of the group as a whole. (b) If any entity that is obligated to make a Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment hereunder transfers one or more assets to a corporation (or a Person classified as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) with which such entity does not file a consolidated tax return pursuant to Section 1501 of the Code, such entity, for purposes of calculating the amount of any Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment (e.g., calculating the gross income of the entity and determining the Realized Tax Benefit of such entity) due hereunder, shall be treated as having disposed of such asset in a fully taxable transaction on the date of such contribution. The consideration deemed to be received by such entity shall be equal to the fair market value of the contributed asset. For purposes of this Section 7.11, a transfer of a partnership interest shall be treated as a transfer of the transferring partner’s share of each of the assets and liabilities of that partnership.

• Individual Flexibility Arrangement 12.1 The Employer and an Employee covered by this Agreement, may agree to make an Individual Flexibility Arrangement to vary the following terms of this Agreement if: (a) the arrangement deals with one or more of the following matters: (i) arrangements about where and when work is performed; (ii) overtime rates; (iii) penalty rates; (iv) allowances; or (v) annual leave loading; (b) the arrangement must meet the genuine needs of the Employer and Employee in relation to one or more of the matters mentioned in subclause 14.1 (a); and (c) the arrangement is genuinely agreed to by the Employer and the Employee. 12.2 The Employer must ensure that the terms of the Individual Flexibility Arrangement: (a) are about permitted matters under section 172 of the Act; (b) are not unlawful terms under section 194 of the Act; (c) result in the Employee being better off overall than the Employee would be if no agreement was made. 12.3 The Employer must ensure that the Individual Flexibility Arrangement: (a) is in writing; (b) includes the name of the Employer and the Employee; (c) is signed by the Employer and the Employee, and if the Employee is under 18 years of age, signed by a parent or guardian of the Employee; (d) Includes details of: (i) the terms of the Agreement that will be varied by the arrangement; (ii) how the arrangement will vary the effect of the terms; (iii) how the Employee will be better off overall in relation to the terms and conditions of their employment as a result of the arrangement; and (e) states the day on which the arrangement commences; 12.4 The Employer must give the Employee a copy of the Individual Flexibility Arrangement within 14 days after it is agreed to. 12.5 The Employer or Employee may terminate the Individual Flexibility Arrangement; (a) by giving no more than 28 days written notice to the other party to the arrangement; or (b) if the Employer and the Employee agree in writing – at any time.

• Flexible Working Arrangements In accordance with the Employment Relations Act 2000, an employee affected by family violence may request a short-term (two months or less) variation of their employment arrangements to assist the employee to deal with the effects of family violence.

• Employee Facilities Employee Facilities. Restrooms and attendant facilities shall be provided as required in the orders and regulations of the State of Washington Department of Labor and Industries. A good faith effort will be made by the Employer to provide facilities for employees’ personal belongings.

• NONSEGREGATED FACILITIES This provision is applicable to all Federal-aid construction contracts and to all related construction subcontracts of $10,000 or more. The contractor must ensure that facilities provided for employees are provided in such a manner that segregation on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin cannot result. The contractor may neither require such segregated use by written or oral policies nor tolerate such use by employee custom. The contractor's obligation extends further to ensure that its employees are not assigned to perform their services at any location, under the contractor's control, where the facilities are segregated. The term "facilities" includes waiting rooms, work areas, restaurants and other eating areas, time clocks, restrooms, washrooms, locker rooms, and other storage or dressing areas, parking lots, drinking fountains, recreation or entertainment areas, transportation, and housing provided for employees. The contractor shall provide separate or single-user restrooms and necessary dressing or sleeping areas to assure privacy between sexes.

• CERTIFICATION OF NONSEGREGATED FACILITIES (Applicable to construction contracts exceeding $10,000) The Contractor certifies that it does not maintain or provide for its establishments, and that it does not permit employees to perform their services at any location, under its control, where segregated facilities are maintained. It certifies further that it will not maintain or provide for employees any segregated facilities at any of its establishments, and it will not permit employees to perform their services at any location under its control where segregated facilities are maintained. The Contractor agrees that a breach of this certification is a violation of the equal opportunity clause of this contract. As used in this certification, the term “segregated facilities” means any waiting rooms, work areas, rest rooms and wash rooms, restaurants and other eating areas, time clocks, locker rooms, and other storage or dressing areas, parking lots, drinking fountains, recreation or entertainment areas, transportation and housing facilities provided for employees which are segregated by explicit directive or are, in fact, segregated on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin because of habit, local custom, or any other reason. The Contractor further agrees that (except where it has obtained for specific time periods) it will obtain identical certification from proposed subcontractors prior to the award of subcontracts exceeding $10,000 which are not exempt from the provisions of the equal opportunity clause; that it will retain such certifications in its files; and that it will forward the preceding notice to such proposed subcontractors (except where proposed subcontractors have submitted identical certifications for specific time periods).