Legal Assistance The Board shall give full support including legal and other assistance for any assault upon the employee while properly acting in the discharge of his/her duties.
Mutual Assistance The Parties will do all things reasonably necessary or appropriate to carry out the terms and provisions of this Agreement and to aid and assist each other in carrying out such terms and provisions.
Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) Consulting Teachers (CT) will be assigned to all new teachers with no prior teaching experience and tenured teachers rated ineffective on the qualitative measures at the end of the previous school year and recommended by the PAR Panel. Evaluations for Probationary and Ineffective Teachers:
Educational Assistance Section 1. Tuition reimbursement shall be provided to employees covered by this collective bargaining AGREEMENT under the same terms and conditions, policies and procedures as the rest of Hennepin County and reflecting a county–wide pool for funding. See Hennepin County Tuition Reimbursement Policy Frequently Asked Questions
Section 2. Where courses are required and certified by the appointing authority as essential to current job performance, such appointing authority shall grant 100% reimbursement for tuition, required fees and required study materials.
Section 3. At the request of an employee, an Individual Development Plan shall be established. Any employee making the request shall be provided with paid time to work with their Supervisor or Human Resources to develop a training plan for career development within Hennepin County. Human Resources will be a source of career information, and postings, in which the employee may have an interest. Time allotted for this activity and the training plan adopted shall be subject to mutual agreement of the Employee and Supervisor.
Technical Assistance DFPS may provide informal support, guidance, clarification, and other forms of technical assistance via phone, email, and virtual meeting to resolve Grant or performance compliance issues. Grantee will document all such instances of technical assistance by DFPS in writing, including any implementation work.
Assistance and Cooperation (a) Each of the Companies shall provide (and shall cause its Affiliates to provide) the other Companies and their respective agents, including accounting firms and legal counsel, with such cooperation or information as they may reasonably request in connection with (i) preparing and filing Tax Returns, (ii) determining the liability for and amount of any Taxes due (including estimated Taxes) or the right to and amount of any refund of Taxes, (iii) examinations of Tax Returns, and (iv) any administrative or judicial proceeding in respect of Taxes assessed or proposed to be assessed. Such cooperation shall include making available, upon reasonable notice, all information and documents in their possession relating to the other Companies and their respective Affiliates as provided in Section 9. Each of the Companies shall also make available to the other Companies, as reasonably requested and available, personnel (including employees and agents of the Companies or their respective Affiliates) responsible for preparing, maintaining, and interpreting information and documents relevant to Taxes.
(b) Any information or documents provided under this Section 8 or Section 9 shall be kept confidential by the Company or Companies receiving the information or documents, except as may otherwise be necessary in connection with the filing of Tax Returns or in connection with any administrative or judicial proceedings relating to Taxes. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other agreement, in no event shall any of the Companies or any of their respective Affiliates be required to provide the other Companies or any of their respective Affiliates or any other Person access to or copies of any information if such action could reasonably be expected to result in the waiver of any Privilege. In addition, in the event that any of the Companies determine that the provision of any information to the other Companies or their respective Affiliates could be commercially detrimental, violate any law or agreement or waive any Privilege, the Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to permit compliance with their obligations under this Section 8 or Section 9 in a manner that avoids any such harm or consequence.
Other Assistance Assist SBEs in their efforts to obtain bonds, lines of credit and insurance. (Note that the Agency has a Surety Bond Program that may assist SBEs in obtaining necessary bonding.) The Agency-Assisted Contractor or Contractor(s) shall require no more stringent bond or insurance standards of SBEs than required of other business enterprises.
Additional Assistance If you do not understand any of the foregoing Terms and Conditions or if you have any questions or comments, we invite you to contact us at any time. This means you should contact us beforehand if anything of these Terms and Conditions is unclear, unfair or unacceptable to you. Our Commitment to Security and Privacy: To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place the appropriate and reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information.
Audit Assistance Each of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries are or may be subject to regulation and audit by a Governmental Authority (including a Taxing Authority), standards organizations, customers or other parties to contracts with such Parties or their respective Subsidiaries under applicable Law, standards or contract provisions. If a Governmental Authority, standards organization, customer or other party to a contract with a Party or its Subsidiary exercises its right to examine or audit such Party’s or its Subsidiary’s books, records, documents or accounting practices and procedures pursuant to such applicable Law, standards or contract provisions, and such examination or audit relates to the Services, then the other Party shall provide, at the sole cost and expense of the requesting Party, all assistance reasonably requested by the Party that is subject to the examination or audit in responding to such examination or audits or requests for Information, to the extent that such assistance or Information is within the reasonable control of the cooperating Party and is related to the Services.
Cooperation and Assistance (i) The Parties shall cooperate with each other in the filing of any Tax Returns and the conduct of any audit or other proceeding. They each shall execute and deliver such powers of attorney and make available such other documents as are reasonably necessary to carry out the intent of this Section 6.14.
(ii) If (A) any party is liable under this Section 6.14, including amounts due to Section 6.14(b), for any portion of a Tax shown due on any Tax Return required to be filed by the other Party pursuant to this Section 6.14, subject to Section 6.14(a)(ii), the Party obligated to file such Tax Return pursuant to this Section 6.14 shall deliver a copy of the relevant portions of such Tax Return to the liable Party for such Party’s review and comment within 30 days prior to the due date for filing such Tax Return (taking into account any extensions, if applicable). Subject to Section 6.14(a)(ii), the Party who is required to file such Tax Return will make such changes to the Applicable Tax Return as reasonably requested by the other Party. If the Parties disagree as to the treatment of any item shown on such Tax Return or with respect to any calculation with respect to any Tax Return to be filed pursuant to this Section 6.14, an internationally recognized accounting firm mutually agreed upon by Purchaser and Seller or the applicable Other Seller, as the case may be, shall determine how the disputed item is to be treated on such Tax Return. Any payments made by a Party to another Party pursuant to this Section 6.14 shall be made no later than the later of 10 days prior to the due date of the applicable Tax Return and 5 business days after the receipt of the applicable Tax Return by the Party from whom payment is required.
(iii) Upon request or upon payment, each Party shall deliver to the tax director of the other Party certified copies of all receipts for any foreign Tax with respect to which such other Party or any of its Affiliates could claim a foreign tax credit and any supporting documents required in connection with claiming or supporting a claim for such a foreign tax credit.
(iv) The Parties shall retain records, documents, accounting data and other information in whatever form that are necessary for the preparation and filing, or for any Tax audit, of any and all Tax Returns with respect to any Taxes that relate to taxable periods that do not begin after the Closing Date. Such retention shall be in accordance with the record retention policy of the respective Party, but in no event shall any Party destroy or otherwise dispose of such records, documents, accounting data and other information prior to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations (including extensions) and without first providing the other Party with a reasonable opportunity to review and copy the same. Each Party shall give any other Party reasonable access to all such records, documents, accounting data and other information as well as to its personnel and premises to the extent necessary for a reasonable review or a Tax audit of such Tax Returns and relevant to an obligation under this Section 6.14.
(v) Seller and the Other Sellers shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to provide Purchaser with a clearance certificate or similar document(s) which may be required by any taxing authority to relieve Purchaser of any obligation to withhold any portion of the payments to Seller or the Other Sellers pursuant to this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, the Intellectual Property License Agreement or the Trademark License Agreement.
(vi) Upon reasonable request by a Party, the other Party shall cooperate in good faith to effectuate modifications to this Agreement that are otherwise economically neutral to the other Party in order to better accommodate the business and financial goals of the requesting Party.
