Employment Agreements Each of the persons listed on Schedule 9.12 shall have been afforded the opportunity to enter into an employment agreement substantially in the form of Annex VIII hereto.
Employment and Consulting Agreements Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx and Xxxx X. Xxxxxx shall have executed and delivered employment agreements with BRI, and Xxxxxx Xxxx shall have executed and delivered a Consulting Agreement with BRI.
of the Employment Agreement Section 4.4.3 of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
Prior Employment Agreements The Executive represents that he/she has not executed any agreement with any previous employer which may impose restrictions on Executive’s employment with the Employer.
Employment and Non-Competition Agreements The Employment and Non-Competition Agreements described in SECTION 6.2 hereof shall have been duly executed and delivered by all parties thereto and shall be in full force and effect.
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 Metropolitan 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, and (iii) to satisfy Previously Disclosed contractual obligations existing as of the date hereof.
Employee Benefit Plans; Employment Agreements Except in --------------------------------------------- each case as set forth in SCHEDULE 4.10, (i) there has been no "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1975, as amended ("ERISA") and Section 4975 of the Code, with respect to any employee pension plans (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, any material employee welfare plans (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), or any material bonus, stock option, stock purchase, incentive, deferred compensation, supplemental retirement, severance and other similar fringe or employee benefit plans, programs or arrangements (collectively, the "COMPANY EMPLOYEE PLANS") which could result in any liability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) all Company Employee Plans are in compliance in all material respects with the requirements prescribed by any and all Laws (including ERISA and the Code), currently in effect with respect thereto (including all applicable requirements for notification to participants or the Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the "PBGC"), Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") or Secretary of the Treasury), and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under, are not in any material respect in default under or violation of, and have no knowledge of any material default or violation by any other party to, any of the Company Employee Plans; (iii) each Company Employee Plan intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is the subject of a favorable determination letter from the IRS, and nothing has occurred which may reasonably be expected to impair such determination; (iv) all contributions required to be made to any Company Employee Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code, or the terms of any Company Employee Plan or any collective bargaining agreement, have been made on or before their due dates; (v) with respect to each Company Employee Plan, no "reportable event" within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA (excluding any such event for which the 30-day notice requirement has been waived under the regulations to Section 4043 of ERISA) nor any event described in Section 4062, 4063 or 4041 of ERISA has occurred; (vi) no withdrawal (including a partial withdrawal) has occurred with respect to any multiemployer plan within the meaning set forth in Section 3(37) of ERISA that has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, any withdrawal liability for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than liability for premium payments to the PBGC, and contributions not in default to the respective plans, arising in the ordinary course), (viii) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any employment, consulting or similar agreement; and (ix) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or will be liable for any severance or other payments to any of its employees as a result of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
No Post-Employment Obligations No Company Employee Plan provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, retiree life insurance, retiree health or other retiree employee welfare benefits to any person for any reason, except as may be required by COBRA or other applicable statute, and the Company has never represented, promised or contracted (whether in oral or written form) to any Employee (either individually or to Employees as a group) or any other person that such Employee(s) or other person would be provided with retiree life insurance, retiree health or other retiree employee welfare benefit, except to the extent required by statute.
Post-Employment Obligations Executive agrees that the following obligations are reasonable and are necessary to protect Employer’s business. Executive further acknowledges that these obligations do not restrict his ability to be gainfully employed, and he acknowledges that any geographic boundary, scope of prohibited activities, and time duration in these obligations are reasonable in nature and no broader than are necessary to protect the Employer’s legitimate business interests. In consideration for his employment and for Employer’s promises herein, Executive agrees that, for a period of two (2) years following his last day of employment, except with the express written consent of the Board, he shall not either directly or indirectly, for himself or on behalf or in conjunction with any other person, partnership, corporation or other entity: (i) own, maintain, engage in, render any services for, manage, have any financial interest in, or permit his name to be used in connection with as a shareholder, bondholder, creditor, officer, director, partner, agent, contractor with, employer or representative of, or in any manner associated with, or give financial, technical or other assistance to, any person, firm or corporation for the purpose of engaging in the copier/office equipment dealer, distribution, sales or service business, or in any other business in which Executive is actively engaged in on behalf of Employer, within a 100 mile radius of any of Employer’s office facilities in the United States of America that Employer operates an office facility in existing on the date of Executive’s termination of employment (the “Current Trade Area”); (ii) enter into any agreement with, service, assist or solicit the business of any persons or entities who were customers of Employer as of, or within two (2) years of, the date of Executive’s termination of employment, for the purpose of providing copier/office equipment dealer sales or service to such customers in the Current Trade Area in competition with Employer or any of its affiliates or to cause such customers to reduce or end their business with Employer; or (iii) enter into any agreement with, or solicit the employment of any persons who were employees, consultants or representatives of Employer as of, or within two (2) years of, the date of Executive’s termination of employment, for the purpose of causing such persons to leave the employment of Employer; provided, however, that no owner of less than one percent (1%) of the outstanding stock of any publicly-traded corporation shall be deemed to be in violation of this Section 4(b) solely by reason thereof.
Employment Agreement On the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company agrees to employ the Executive and the Executive agrees to be employed by the Company for the Employment Period set forth in Section 2 hereof and in the position and with the duties set forth in Section 3 hereof. Terms used herein with initial capitalization are defined in Section 10.12 below.