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For more information visit our privacy policy.Access to Employees Staff representatives of the Union shall be allowed to visit work areas of employees during working hours and confer on conditions of employment to the extent that such visitations do not disrupt the work activities of the area being visited. Prior to entering the work area, the representative shall receive permission from the appropriate department head or his/her designee stating the reason(s) for such visitations. Permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
Compensation; Employment Agreements; Etc Enter into or amend or renew any employment, consulting, severance or similar agreements or arrangements with any director, officer or employee of Security or its subsidiaries, or grant any salary or wage increase or increase any employee benefit, (including incentive or bonus payments) except (i) for normal individual increases in compensation to employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (ii) for other changes that are required by applicable law, or (iii) to satisfy Previously Disclosed contractual obligations existing as of the date hereof.
Certain Employees (a) Each of the following is included in the list of agreements set forth in the Disclosure Schedule: all collective bargaining agreements, employment and consulting agreements, bonus plans, deferred compensation plans, employee pension plans or retirement plans, employee profit-sharing plans, employee stock purchase and stock option plans, hospitalization insurance, and other plans and arrangements providing for employee benefits of employees of the Seller. (b) The Disclosures Schedule contains a true, complete and accurate list of the following: the names, positions, and compensation of the present employees of the Seller, together with a statement of the annual salary payable to salaried employees and a summary of the bonuses and description of agreements for additional compensation and other like benefits, if any, paid or payable to such persons for the period set forth in the Disclosure Schedule. Except as listed in the Disclosure Schedule, to the best of Seller's knowledge, all employees of Seller are employees-at-will. (c) Seller has no retired employees who are receiving or are entitled to receive any payments, health or other benefits from Seller.
Benefits for Part-Time Employees A part-time employee shall receive in lieu of all fringe benefits (being those benefits to an employee, paid in whole or part by the Hospital, as part of direct compensation or otherwise, including holiday pay, save and except salary, vacation pay, standby pay, call back pay, reporting pay, responsibility allowance, jury and witness duty, bereavement pay, and maternity supplemental unemployment benefits) an amount equal to 14% of his/her regular straight time hourly rate for all straight time hours paid.
Newly Hired Employees All employees hired to an insurance eligible position must make their benefit elections by their initial effective date of coverage as defined in this Article, Section 5C. Insurance eligible employees will automatically be enrolled in basic life coverage. If employees eligible for a full Employer Contribution do not choose a health plan administrator and a primary care clinic by their initial effective date, and do not waive medical coverage, they will be enrolled in a Benefit Level Two clinic (or Level One, if available) that meets established access standards in the health plan with the largest number of Benefit Level One and Two clinics in the county of the employee’s residence at the beginning of the insurance year. If an employee does not choose a health plan administrator and primary care clinic by their initial effective date, but was previously covered as a dependent immediately prior to their initial effective date, they will be defaulted to the plan administrator and primary care clinic in which they were previously enrolled.
Notification to Employees The Employer will inform new, transferred, promoted, or demoted employees in writing prior to appointment into positions included in the bargaining unit(s) of the Union’s exclusive representation status. Upon appointment to a bargaining unit position, the Employer will furnish the employees with membership materials provided by the Union. The Employer will inform employees in writing, if they are subsequently appointed to a position that is not in a bargaining unit.
Compensation and Employee Benefits (a) Until the first anniversary of the Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement, and such period, the “Continuation Period”), Purchaser shall provide, or shall cause to be provided, to each Transferred Employee (i) base salary and annual cash bonus opportunities that are no less favorable, in each case, than those in effect immediately prior to the Closing, (ii) severance benefits that are no less favorable than the severance benefits that would have been provided to such Transferred Employee under the applicable severance benefit plans, programs, policies, agreements and arrangements as in effect on the date hereof, and (iii) employee benefit plans and arrangements (other than base salary, annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities, severance benefits and employee stock purchase plan benefits) that are substantially comparable in the aggregate to those provided to the Transferred Employees immediately prior to the Closing, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), except to the extent such Transferred Employee’s employment with Purchaser or its Affiliates is terminated prior to the end of the Continuation Period. In addition, (A) Purchaser shall provide, or shall cause to be provided, a 2018 long-term incentive award to each Transferred Employee employed by Purchaser or its Affiliates at the time annual long-term incentive awards are made generally that is no less favorable than the long-term incentive award made to similarly situated employees of Xxxxxx generally, and (B) Seller shall provide to Purchaser reasonably promptly following the determination thereof such information regarding the 2018 long-term incentive awards described in clause (A) as is reasonably required by Purchaser for purposes of fulfilling its obligations under this Agreement with respect to such awards. Purchaser shall not assume sponsorship of or any Liability under any Seller Plan, all Liability for which shall remain the responsibility of Seller or its applicable Affiliate. (b) With respect to all employee benefit plans of Purchaser and its Affiliates, including any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) (including any vacation, paid time-off and severance plans), for all purposes (except as set forth below), including determining eligibility to participate, level of benefits, vesting and benefit accruals, each Transferred Employee’s service with Seller and its Subsidiaries (as well as service with any predecessor employer of Seller or any such Subsidiary, to the extent service with the predecessor employer was recognized by Seller or such Subsidiary) shall be treated as service with Purchaser and its Affiliates (or in the case of a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets and business of the Triage Business, its successors and assigns); provided, however, that such service need not be recognized (i) to the extent that such recognition would result in any duplication of benefits for the same period of service, (ii) for any purpose under any defined benefit retirement plan, retiree welfare plan, equity-based incentive plan or long-term incentive plan, (iii) to the extent not recognized by Seller for similar purposes, or (iv) for purposes of any plan, program or arrangement (A) under which similarly situated employees of Purchaser and its Affiliates do not receive credit for prior service or (B) that is grandfathered or frozen, either with respect to level of benefits or participation. (c) Purchaser or one of its Affiliates shall be responsible for all welfare benefit claims incurred by Transferred Employees and their eligible dependents at or after the Closing. Seller or one of its Affiliates shall be responsible for all welfare benefit claims incurred under any Seller Plan by Transferred Employees and their eligible dependents prior to the Closing. Without limiting the generality of Section 7.02(a), with respect to any “employee welfare benefit plan” maintained by Purchaser or any of its Affiliates in which Transferred Employees (and their eligible dependents) will be eligible to participate from and after the Closing, Purchaser shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, use commercially reasonable efforts to waive, or cause to be waived, any pre-existing condition limitations, exclusions, actively-at-work requirements and waiting periods, except to the extent that such pre-existing condition limitations, exclusions, actively-at-work requirements and waiting periods would not have been satisfied or waived under the comparable benefit plan, program, policy, agreement or other arrangement of Seller or its applicable Subsidiaries immediately prior to the Closing. Purchaser shall, or shall cause its Affiliates to, use commercially reasonable efforts to recognize the dollar amount of all co-payments, deductibles and similar expenses incurred by each Transferred Employee (and his or her eligible dependents) during the calendar year in which the Closing occurs for purposes of satisfying such year’s deductible and co-payment limitations under the relevant welfare benefit plans in which they will be eligible to participate from and after the Closing. (d) Without limiting the generality of Sections 12.05 and 12.13, the provisions of this Section 7.02 are solely for the benefit of the Parties, and no provision of this Section 7.02 (i) is intended to, or shall, constitute the establishment or adoption of or an amendment to any employee benefit plan for purposes of ERISA or otherwise, (ii) obligates Purchaser or any of its Affiliates to retain the employment of any particular Transferred Employee following the Closing or (iii) results in any current or former director, employee, consultant or any other individual associated therewith being regarded for any purposes as a Third Party beneficiary of this Agreement or have the right to enforce the provisions hereof.
Shift Employees Employees who work rotating shift patterns or those who work qualifying shifts shall be entitled, on completion of 12 months employment on shift work, to up to an additional 5 days annual leave, based on the number of qualifying shifts worked. The entitlement will be calculated on the annual leave anniversary date. Qualifying shifts are defined as a shift which involves at least 2 hours work performed outside the hours of 8.00am to 5.00pm, excluding overtime. Number of qualifying shifts per annum Number of days additional leave per annum 121 or more 5 days 96 – 120 4 days 71 – 95 3 days 46 – 70 2 days 21 – 45 1 day
Employee Benefits Matters (a) Parent hereby agrees that, for a period of one (1) year immediately following the Effective Time, it shall, or it shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries to provide each Employee as of the Effective Time (each, a “Continuing Service Provider”) to the extent such Continuing Service Provider remains employed by Parent or its Subsidiaries with (i) a base salary or wage rate that is not less than the base salary or wage rate provided by the Company Group to such Continuing Service Provider as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) target annual cash incentive compensation opportunities for such Continuing Service Provider that are no less favorable than those in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, and (iii) all other employee benefits (excluding any equity or equity-based compensation, severance, defined benefit pension benefits, non-qualified deferred compensation benefits, retiree health and welfare benefits or change in control, transaction or retention bonuses or payments) that are substantially comparable, in the aggregate to either (A) those in effect for such Continuing Service Providers immediately prior to the Effective Time or (B) those provided by Parent or its Subsidiaries to similarly situated employees of Parent or its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the generality of this Section 6.05(a), and subject to Section 6.05(f) from and after the Effective Time, Parent shall, or it shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries, to honor all obligations under the Plans other than those terminated pursuant to Section 6.05(e), in each case in accordance with and subject to their terms as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, including with respect to any payments, benefits or rights arising as a result of the Transactions (either alone or in combination with any other event). (b) Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries to cause Continuing Service Providers to receive full service credit for purposes of eligibility to participate and vesting (but not for benefit accrual purposes, except for paid time off and severance) under any employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement, in each case, established or maintained by Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries under which each Continuing Service Provider may be eligible to participate on or after the Effective Time (a “Parent Plan”) to the same extent recognized by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries under comparable Plans immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided, however, that such crediting of service shall not be credited for the purposes of any retiree health or welfare plan, defined benefit pension plan or long-term equity incentive program (including in respect of any “retirement” provisions thereunder) and shall not operate to duplicate any benefit or the funding of any such benefit. In addition, Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to (i) waive, or cause to be waived, any limitations on benefits relating to any pre-existing conditions under a Parent Plan to the extent such conditions are covered immediately prior to the Effective Time a comparable Plan and to the same extent such limitations are waived under such Plan as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time and (ii) recognize, for purposes of the annual deductible and out-of-pocket limits under its medical and dental plans, the deductible and out-of-pocket expenses paid by Continuing Service Provider in the calendar year in which the Effective Time occurs to the same extent recognized under any comparable Plan prior to the Effective Time. (c) With respect to each Continuing Service Provider whose employment is terminated without cause during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending one (1) year after the Closing Date, Parent shall, or it shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries, to provide such Continuing Service Provider with severance benefits equal in value to the severance benefits determined in accordance with (and subject to the terms and conditions of) the policy set forth on Section 6.05(c) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, in each case, taking into account the Continuing Service Provider’s service with the Company Group prior to the Closing and with Parent or its Subsidiaries on or after the Closing. (d) To the extent the Closing Date occurs in the 2024 calendar year, Parent shall, or it shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries to, continue any Plan that is an annual bonus plan for the 2024 calendar year and will administer it in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and taking into account determinations made prior to the Closing with respect to such annual bonus program or target amounts thereunder, in all cases pursuant to and subject to the terms of Section 6.05(d) of the Company Disclosure Schedule. (e) If requested by Parent as of at least ten (10) days prior to the Closing Date (but conditioned upon the occurrence of the Closing), the Company shall take all necessary actions to terminate or cause to be terminated any or all of the Plans sponsored or maintained by the Company or any Company Subsidiaries. The Company shall, or shall cause its applicable Affiliate to, provide Parent with evidence that any requested terminated Plan has been terminated, with the termination of the applicable Plans effective no later than the day immediately preceding the Closing Date, pursuant to a duly adopted resolution of the Company or its applicable Affiliate (the form and substance of which shall be subject to review and approval by Parent, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) no later than the day immediately preceding the Effective Time. (f) Without limiting the generality of Section 9.09, nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to be treated as an amendment to any Plan or any employee benefit plan or arrangement of Parent or any of its Affiliates, or to create any third-party beneficiary rights in any Employee or Non-Employee Service Provider, any beneficiary or dependent thereof, or any collective bargaining representative thereof. Nothing contained herein, express or implied, shall (i) alter or limit the ability of Parent or the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Affiliates to amend, modify or terminate any Plan or any other benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement at any time assumed, established, sponsored or maintained by any of them or (ii) create any rights to continued employment or service with Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates or in any way limit the ability of Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates to terminate the employment or service of any Employee or Non-Employee Service Provider at any time and for any reason.
Notice to Employees Contractor must give notice in writing to its employees who perform work on this Contract, either at the time of hire or before commencement of work on this Contract, or by posting a notice in a location frequented by employees, of the number of hours per day and days per week that the employees may be required to work.