Common use of General Release and Dismissal of Claims Clause in Contracts

General Release and Dismissal of Claims. In exchange for the promises and payments made by the Company and Associate as outlined in this Agreement, the parties further agree as follows: (a) Associate hereby warrants, represents and certifies that Associate has not filed or instituted (and, no person or agency has filed or instituted on Associate’s behalf and/or at Associate’s direction – and if filed not at Associate’s direction, Associate will seek dismissal of) any complaints, lawsuits, actions, causes of action, in law or equity, administrative charges, claims, controversies, demands, grievances and/or proceedings whatsoever against any RELEASEE (as defined below), in any forum including, but not limited to, any federal, state and local court, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), the Florida Commission on Human Relations (“FCHR”), the Miami-Dade Commission on Human Rights Board, the United States Department of Labor and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or any other equivalent state government agency and, to the extent that any administrative charge has been or is filed with the EEOC or any other equivalent state government agency by or on Associate’s behalf, Associate agrees not to seek or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom and agrees that Associate understands that such limitation does not in any way restrict Associate’s ability to pursue such charge consistent with the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 below. (b) Associate hereby releases and forever discharges the Company and its insurers, affiliates, divisions, parents, subsidiaries, any merged entity or merged entities, prior and successor entities, and/or its and their present and former officers, partners, directors, employees, agents, shareholders and/or successors, assigns, trustees, heirs, administrators, executors, representatives and/or principals thereof (together referred to as “RELEASEES”), from all claims, actions, causes of action, lawsuits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, bonuses, controversies, agreements, promises, claims, charges, complaints and demands whatsoever, whether in law or equity, known or unknown, against the RELEASEES, that Associate and the Associate’s heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, may now have or hereafter later determine that Associate has or had upon, or by reason of, any cause or thing whatsoever, including, but not limited to, claims arising under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., as amended including, but not limited to, breach of fiduciary duty and equitable claims brought under § 1132(a)(3) (“ERISA”), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (state or federal), as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871 and 1991, including Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (to the extent permitted by law), the Florida Civil Rights Act, Florida’s Whistleblower’s Act, the Florida Minimum Wage Act, the Florida Constitution, Florida’s Statutes, the Hillsborough County Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade Wage Theft Ordinance, Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade County Code, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave Ordinance, and/or any other federal, state or local human rights, civil rights, wage-hour, pension, whistleblower, or labor law, rule, statute, regulation, constitution or ordinance and/or public policy, contract or tort law, or any claim of retaliation under such laws, or any claim of breach of any contract (whether express, oral, written or implied from any source), or any claim of intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations, wrongful or abusive or constructive discharge, defamation, discrimination, failure to accommodate, interference with leave rights (including but not limited to family, medical, sick, or personal leaves), retaliation, harassment, failure to retain records, prima facie tort, fraud, negligence, loss of consortium, malpractice, breach of duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty or any action similar thereto against RELEASEES, including any claim for attorneys’ fees, expenses or costs based upon any conduct from the beginning of the world up to and including the Effective Date of this Agreement; provided, however, that Associate does not waive any right to file an administrative charge with the EEOC, subject to the condition that Associate agrees not to seek, or in any way obtain or accept, any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom; and further provided, however, that Associate does not waive any rights with respect to, or release the Company from, payments of any and all benefits and/or monies earned, accrued, vested or otherwise owing, if any, to Associate under the terms of the Company’s retirement, savings, deferred compensation and/or profit sharing plan(s) or any claims for state Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits (except that Associate hereby releases and waives any claims that Associate’s termination was to avoid payment of such benefits or payments or that, as a result of Associate’s termination, Associate is entitled to additional benefits or payments); and further provided, however, that Associate does not release any claim of breach of the terms of this Agreement, subject to the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 of this Agreement. (c) Thus, for the purpose of implementing a full and complete release and discharge of the RELEASEES, Associate expressly acknowledges that this general release is intended to include in its effect, without limitation, all claims which Associate does not know or suspect to exist in Associate’s favor at the time of execution hereof, and that this general release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims. (d) Associate agrees to immediately seek and obtain dismissal with prejudice of any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding (unless such proceeding is a class action, in which case Associate agrees to “opt out” of the class and not participate in the class action and such proceeding is at or initiated by the EEOC) in the event that, for any reason, any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding covered by Paragraphs 3 is pending or is instituted on Associate’s behalf, and to not, unless required by law to do so (and then subject to the terms of Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4), testify, provide documents or otherwise participate or request others to participate on Associate’s behalf in any such proceeding or litigation arising therefrom or associated therewith, and, in no event, from any such source or proceeding whatsoever, to seek, or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery, settlement or relief therefrom. Associate’s obligation to dismiss and/or withdraw any and all complaints includes, but is not limited to, any complaint made internally to the Company or any of the RELEASEES – via any medium including, but not limited to, the Company’s Ethics Point hotline – either in Associate’s own name or anonymously, about any of the RELEASEES or any associate, employee, agent, or representative of any of the RELEASEES. Should Associate file or otherwise bring a claim in violation of Paragraph 3 or fail to seek and obtain such dismissal or withdrawal or “opt out” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Associate will, at the option of the Company, be considered in material breach of this Agreement.

General Release and Dismissal of Claims. In exchange for the promises and payments made by the Company and Associate as outlined in this Agreement, the parties further agree as follows:: ACTIVE/ 78077235.1 (a) Associate hereby warrants, represents and certifies that Associate has not filed or instituted (and, no person or agency has filed or instituted on Associate’s behalf and/or at Associate’s direction – and if filed not at Associate’s direction, Associate will seek dismissal of) any complaints, lawsuits, actions, causes of action, in law or equity, administrative charges, claims, controversies, demands, grievances and/or proceedings whatsoever against any RELEASEE (as defined below), in any forum including, but not limited to, any federal, state and local court, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), the Florida Commission on Human Relations (“FCHR”), the Miami-Dade Connecticut Commission on Human Rights Boardand Opportunities, the Connecticut Department of Labor, the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity, the Georgia Department of Labor, the United States Department of Labor and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or any other equivalent state government agency and, to the extent that any administrative charge has been or is filed with the EEOC or any other equivalent state government agency by or on Associate’s behalf, Associate agrees not to seek or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom and agrees that Associate understands that such limitation does not in any way restrict Associate’s ability to pursue such charge consistent with the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 below. (b) Associate hereby releases and forever discharges the Company and its insurers, affiliatesaffiliates (including but not limited to Primo Water Corporation and Aquaterra Corporation), divisions, parents, subsidiaries, any merged entity or merged entities, prior and successor entities, and/or its and their present and former officers, partners, directors, employees, agents, shareholders and/or successors, assigns, trustees, heirs, administrators, executors, representatives and/or principals thereof (together referred to as “RELEASEES”), from all claims, actions, causes of action, lawsuits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, bonuses, controversies, agreements, promises, claims, charges, complaints and demands whatsoever, whether in law or equity, known or unknown, against the RELEASEES, that Associate and the Associate’s heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, may now have or hereafter later determine that Associate has or had upon, or by reason of, any cause or thing whatsoever, including, but not limited to, claims arising under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., as amended including, but not limited to, breach of fiduciary duty and equitable claims brought under § 1132(a)(3) (“ERISA”), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (state or federal), as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871 and 1991, including Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (to the extent permitted by law), the Florida Civil Rights Act, Florida’s Whistleblower’s Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, the Florida Minimum Wage Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act, the Florida Constitution, Florida’s Connecticut Statutes, the Hillsborough County Human Rights OrdinanceOfficial Code of Georgia (including but not limited to Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia), the Miami-Dade Wage Theft Ordinance, Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights OrdinanceGeorgia Constitution, the Miami-Dade County Georgia Equal Pay Equal Work Act, Georgia’s Sex Discrimination in Employment Act, Georgia’s Equal Employment for Persons with Disabilities Code, Georgia’s Common Day of Rest Act, Xxxxxxx’s Hope Act, Georgia’s Smokefree Air Act, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave OrdinanceGeorgia Fair Employment Practices Act, and/or any other federal, state or local human rights, civil rights, wage-hour, pension, whistleblower, or labor law, rule, statute, regulation, constitution or ordinance and/or public policy, contract or tort law, or any claim of retaliation under such laws, or any claim of breach of any contract (whether express, oral, ACTIVE/ 78077235.1 written or implied from any source), or any claim of intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations, wrongful or abusive or constructive discharge, defamation, discrimination, failure to accommodate, interference with leave rights (including but not limited to family, medical, sick, or personal leaves), retaliation, harassment, failure to retain records, prima facie tort, fraud, negligence, loss of consortium, malpractice, breach of duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty or any action similar thereto against RELEASEES, including any claim for attorneys’ fees, expenses or costs based upon any conduct from the beginning of the world up to and including the Effective Date of this Agreement; provided, however, that Associate does not waive any right to file an administrative charge with the EEOC, subject to the condition that Associate agrees not to seek, or in any way obtain or accept, any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom; and further provided, however, that Associate does not waive any rights with respect to, or release the Company from, payments of any and all benefits and/or monies earned, accrued, vested or otherwise owing, if any, to Associate under the terms of the Company’s retirement, savings, deferred compensation and/or profit sharing plan(s) or any claims for state Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits (except that Associate hereby releases and waives any claims that Associate’s termination was to avoid payment of such benefits or payments or that, as a result of Associate’s termination, Associate is entitled to additional benefits or payments); and further provided, however, that Associate does not release any claim of breach of the terms of this Agreement, subject to the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 of this Agreement. (c) Thus, for the purpose of implementing a full and complete release and discharge of the RELEASEES, Associate expressly acknowledges that this general release is intended to include in its effect, without limitation, all claims which Associate does not know or suspect to exist in Associate’s favor at the time of execution hereof, and that this general release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims. (d) Associate agrees to immediately seek and obtain dismissal with prejudice of any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding (unless such proceeding is a class action, in which case Associate agrees to “opt out” of the class and not participate in the class action and such proceeding is at or initiated by the EEOC) in the event that, for any reason, any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding covered by Paragraphs 3 is pending or is instituted on Associate’s behalf, and to not, unless required by law to do so (and then subject to the terms of Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4), testify, provide documents or otherwise participate or request others to participate on Associate’s behalf in any such proceeding or litigation arising therefrom or associated therewith, and, in no event, from any such source or proceeding whatsoever, to seek, or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery, settlement or relief therefrom. Associate’s obligation to dismiss and/or withdraw any and all complaints includes, but is not limited to, any complaint made internally to the Company or any of the RELEASEES – via any medium including, but not limited to, the Company’s Ethics Point hotline – either in Associate’s own name or anonymously, about any of the RELEASEES or any associate, employee, agent, or representative of any of the RELEASEES. Should Associate file or otherwise bring a claim in violation of Paragraph 3 or fail to seek and obtain such dismissal or withdrawal or “opt out” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Associate will, at the option of the Company, be considered in material breach of this Agreement.. ACTIVE/ 78077235.1

General Release and Dismissal of Claims. In exchange for the promises and payments made by the Company and Associate Executive as outlined in this Separation Agreement, the parties further agree as follows: (a) Associate Executive hereby warrants, represents and certifies that Associate Executive has not filed or instituted (and, no person or agency has filed or instituted on AssociateExecutive’s behalf and/or at AssociateExecutive’s direction – and if filed not at AssociateExecutive’s direction, Associate Executive will seek dismissal of) any complaints, lawsuits, actions, causes of action, in law or equity, administrative charges, claims, controversies, demands, grievances and/or proceedings whatsoever against any RELEASEE (as defined below), in any forum including, but not limited to, any federal, state and local courtcourt in the United States or Canada, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”)Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), the Florida Commission on Human Relations (“FCHR”), the Miami-Dade Commission on Human Rights BoardDealers, the United States Department of Labor and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or any other equivalent state government agency and, to the extent that any administrative charge has been or is filed with the EEOC or any other equivalent state government agency by or on AssociateExecutive’s behalf, Associate Executive agrees not to seek or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom and agrees that Associate Executive understands that such limitation does not in any way restrict AssociateExecutive’s ability to pursue such charge consistent with the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 belowcharge. (b) Associate Executive hereby releases and forever discharges the Company and its insurers, affiliates, divisions, parents, subsidiaries, any merged entity or merged entities, prior and successor entities, entities and/or its and their present and former officers, partners, directors, employees, agents, shareholders and/or successors, assigns, trustees, heirs, administrators, executors, representatives and/or principals thereof (together referred to as “RELEASEES”), from all claims, actions, causes of action, lawsuits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, bonuses, controversies, agreements, promises, claims, charges, complaints and demands whatsoever, whether in law or equity, known or unknown, against the RELEASEES, that Associate Executive and the AssociateExecutive’s heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, may now have or hereafter later determine that Associate Executive has or had upon, or by reason of, any cause or thing whatsoever, including, but not limited to, claims arising under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., as amended including, but not limited to, breach of fiduciary duty and equitable claims brought under § 1132(a)(3) (“ERISA”), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (state or federal)Act, as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871 and 1991, including Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (to the extent permitted by law), the Florida Civil Rights Act, Florida’s Whistleblower’s Act, the Florida Minimum Wage Act, the Florida Constitution, Florida’s Statutes, the Hillsborough County Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade Wage Theft Ordinance, Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade County Code, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave Ordinance, and/or any other federal, state or local human rights, civil rights, wage-hour, pension, whistleblower, or labor law, rule, statute, regulation, constitution or ordinance and/or public policy, contract or tort law, or any claim of retaliation under such laws, or any claim of breach of any contract (whether express, oral, written or implied from any source), or any claim of intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations, wrongful or abusive or constructive discharge, defamation, discrimination, failure to accommodate, interference with leave rights (including but not limited to family, medical, sick, or personal leaves), retaliation, harassment, failure to retain records, prima facie tort, fraud, negligence, loss of consortium, malpractice, breach of duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty or any action similar thereto against RELEASEES, including any claim for attorneys’ fees, expenses or costs based upon any conduct from the beginning of the world up to and including the Effective Date of this Separation Agreement; provided, however, that Associate Executive does not waive any right to file an administrative charge with the EEOC, subject to the condition that Associate Executive agrees not to seek, or in any way obtain or accept, any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom; and further provided, however, that Associate Executive does not waive any rights with respect to, or release the Company from, payments of any and all benefits and/or monies earned, accrued, vested or otherwise owing, if any, to Associate Executive under the terms of the Company’s retirement, savings, deferred compensation and/or profit sharing plan(s) or any claims for state Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits (except that Associate Executive hereby releases and waives any claims that AssociateExecutive’s termination separation of employment was to avoid payment of such benefits or payments or that, as a result of AssociateExecutive’s terminationseparation of employment, Associate Executive is entitled to additional benefits or payments); and further provided, however, that Associate Executive does not release any claim of breach of the terms of this Agreement, subject to the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 of this Separation Agreement. (c) Thus, for the purpose of implementing a full and complete release and discharge of the RELEASEES, Associate Executive expressly acknowledges that this general release is intended to include in its effect, without limitation, all claims which Associate Executive does not know or suspect to exist in AssociateExecutive’s favor at the time of execution hereof, and that this general release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims. (d) Associate Executive agrees to immediately seek and obtain dismissal with prejudice of any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding (unless such proceeding is a class action, in which case Associate Executive agrees to “opt out” of the class and not participate in the class action and such proceeding is at or initiated by the EEOC) in the event that, for any reason, any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding covered by Paragraphs 3 is pending or is instituted on AssociateExecutive’s behalf, and to not, unless required by law to do so (and then subject to the terms of Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4), testify, provide documents or otherwise participate or request others to participate on AssociateExecutive’s behalf in any such proceeding or litigation arising therefrom or associated therewith, and, in no event, from any such source or proceeding whatsoever, to seek, or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery, settlement or relief therefrom. AssociateExecutive’s obligation to dismiss and/or withdraw any and all complaints includes, but is not limited to, any complaint made internally to the Company or any of the RELEASEES – via any medium including, but not limited to, the Company’s Ethics Point hotline – either in AssociateExecutive’s own name or anonymously, about any of the RELEASEES or any associate, employee, agent, or representative of any of the RELEASEES. Should Associate Executive file or otherwise bring a claim in violation of Paragraph 3 or fail to seek and obtain such dismissal or withdrawal or “opt out” in accordance with the terms of this Separation Agreement, Associate Executive will, at the option of the Company, be considered in material breach of this Separation Agreement.

General Release and Dismissal of Claims. In exchange for the promises and payments made by the Company and Associate as outlined in this Agreement, the parties further agree as follows: (a) Associate hereby warrants, represents and certifies that Associate has not filed or instituted (and, no person or agency has filed or instituted on Associate’s behalf and/or at Associate’s direction – and if filed not at Associate’s direction, Associate will seek dismissal of) any complaints, lawsuits, actions, causes of action, in law or equity, administrative charges, claims, controversies, demands, grievances and/or proceedings whatsoever against any RELEASEE (as defined below)RELEASEE, in any forum including, but not limited to, any federal, state and local court, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), the Florida Commission on Human Relations (“FCHR”), the Miami-Dade Connecticut Commission on Human Rights Boardand Opportunities, the Connecticut Department of Labor, the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity, the Georgia Department of Labor, the United States Department of Labor and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or any other equivalent state government agency and, to the extent that any administrative charge has been or is filed with the EEOC or any other equivalent state government agency by or on Associate’s behalf, Associate agrees not to seek or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom and agrees that Associate understands that such limitation does not in any way restrict Associate’s ability to pursue such charge consistent with the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 belowcharge. (b) Associate Each party hereby releases and forever discharges the Company other party and with respect to such release and discharge of the Company, its insurers, affiliates, divisions, parents, subsidiaries, any merged entity or merged entities, prior and successor entities, and/or its and their present and former officers, partners, directors, employees, agents, shareholders and/or successors, assigns, trustees, heirs, administrators, executors, representatives and/or principals thereof (together referred to as “RELEASEES”), from all claims, actions, causes of action, lawsuits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, bonuses, controversies, agreements, promises, claims, charges, complaints and demands whatsoever, whether in law or equity, known or unknown, against either party or the RELEASEES, that Associate and the Associate’s other party, and, if any, its heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, may now have or hereafter later determine that Associate a party has or had upon, or by reason of, any cause or thing whatsoever, including, but not limited to, with respect to claims of Associate, claims arising under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., as amended including, but not limited to, breach of fiduciary duty and equitable claims brought under § 1132(a)(3) (“ERISA”), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (state or federal), as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871 and 1991, including Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (to the extent permitted by law), the Florida Civil Rights Actand/or with respect to claims of any party, Florida’s Whistleblower’s Act, the Florida Minimum Wage Act, the Florida Constitution, Florida’s Statutes, the Hillsborough County Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade Wage Theft Ordinance, Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights Ordinance, the Miami-Dade County Code, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave Ordinance, and/or claims arising under any other federal, state or local human rights, civil rights, wage-hour, pension, whistleblower, or labor law, rule, statute, regulation, constitution or ordinance and/or public policy, contract or tort law, or any claim of retaliation under such laws, or any claim of breach of any contract (whether express, oral, written or implied from any source), or any claim of intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations, wrongful or abusive or constructive discharge, defamation, discrimination, failure to accommodate, interference with leave rights (including but not limited to family, medical, ACTIVE.126833628.02 sick, or personal leaves), retaliation, harassment, failure to retain records, prima facie tort, fraud, negligence, loss of consortium, malpractice, breach of duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty or any action similar thereto against Associate, the Company, or any of other RELEASEES, including any claim for attorneys’ fees, expenses or costs based upon any conduct from the beginning of the world up to and including the Effective Date of this Agreement; provided, however, that Associate does not waive any right to file an administrative charge with the EEOC, subject to the condition that Associate agrees not to seek, or in any way obtain or accept, any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom; and further provided, however, that Associate does not waive any rights with respect to, or release the Company from, payments of any and all benefits and/or monies earned, accrued, vested or otherwise owing, if any, to Associate under the terms of the Company’s retirement, savings, deferred compensation and/or profit sharing plan(s) or any claims for state Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits (except that Associate hereby releases and waives any claims that Associate’s termination was to avoid payment of such benefits or payments or that, as a result of Associate’s termination, Associate is entitled to additional benefits or payments); and further provided, however, that Associate does not release any claim of breach of the terms of this Agreement. Additionally, subject to for clarity, the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 Company confirms that Associate does not release or waive any claims arising out of facts or events occurring after her execution of this Agreement. (c) Associate is entitled in the remainder of her term of employment to accept and serve on up to three (3) seats at any time on the boards of directors of other companies, subject to compliance with the restrictive covenants set forth in the Offer Letter and Severance Plan; (d) Thus, for the purpose of implementing a full and complete release and discharge of the parties and RELEASEES, Associate each party hereto expressly acknowledges that this general release is intended to include in its effect, without limitation, all claims which Associate a party does not know or suspect to exist in Associatesuch party’s favor at the time of execution hereof, and that this general release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims. (de) Associate agrees to immediately seek and obtain dismissal with prejudice of any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding (unless such proceeding is a class action, in which case Associate agrees to “opt out” of the class and not participate in the class action and such proceeding is at or initiated by the EEOC) in the event that, for any reason, any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding covered by Paragraphs 3 2 is currently pending or is instituted hereafter in violation of Associate’s obligations in this Agreement on Associate’s behalf, and to not, unless required by law to do so (and then subject to the terms of Paragraph 3 2 and Paragraph 43), testify, provide documents or otherwise participate or request others to participate on Associate’s behalf in any such proceeding or litigation arising therefrom or associated therewith, except to the extent compelled by law including but not limited to, if subject to legal sanction or penalty imposed by judicial or statutory requirements, and, subject to only such exception, in no event, from any such source or proceeding whatsoever, to seek, or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery, settlement or relief therefrom. Associate’s obligation to dismiss and/or withdraw any and all complaints includes, but is not limited to, any complaint made internally to the Company or any of the RELEASEES – via any medium including, but not limited to, the Company’s Ethics Point hotline – either in Associate’s own name or anonymously, about any of the RELEASEES or any associate, employee, agent, or representative of any of the RELEASEES. Should Associate file or otherwise bring a claim in violation of Paragraph 3 2 or fail to seek and obtain such dismissal or withdrawal or “opt out” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Associate will, at the option of the Company, be considered in material breach of this Agreement.

General Release and Dismissal of Claims. In exchange for the promises and payments made by the Company and Associate as outlined in this Agreement, the parties further agree as follows: (a) Associate hereby warrants, represents and certifies that Associate has not filed or instituted (and, no person or agency has filed or instituted on Associate’s behalf and/or at Associate’s direction – and if filed not at Associate’s direction, Associate will seek dismissal of) any complaints, lawsuits, actions, causes of action, in law or equity, administrative charges, claims, controversies, demands, grievances and/or proceedings whatsoever against any RELEASEE (as defined below), in any forum including, but not limited to, any federal, state and local court, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”), the Florida Commission on Human Relations (“FCHR”), the Miami-Dade Connecticut Commission on Human Rights Boardand Opportunities, the Connecticut Department of Labor, the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity, the Georgia Department of Labor, the United States Department of Labor and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or any other equivalent state government agency and, to the extent that any administrative charge has been or is filed with the EEOC or any other equivalent state government agency by or on Associate’s behalf, Associate agrees not to seek or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom and agrees that Associate understands that such limitation does not in any way restrict Associate’s ability to pursue such charge consistent with the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 below. (b) Associate hereby releases and forever discharges the Company and its insurers, affiliatesaffiliates (including but not limited to Primo Water Corporation and Aquaterra Corporation), divisions, parents, subsidiaries, any merged entity or merged entities, prior and successor entities, and/or its and their present and former officers, partners, directors, employees, agents, shareholders and/or successors, assigns, trustees, heirs, administrators, executors, representatives and/or principals thereof (together referred to as “RELEASEES”), from all claims, actions, causes of action, lawsuits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, bonuses, controversies, agreements, promises, claims, charges, complaints and demands whatsoever, whether in law or equity, known or unknown, against the RELEASEES, that Associate and the Associate’s heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, may now have or hereafter later determine that Associate has or had upon, or by reason of, any cause or thing whatsoever, including, but not limited to, claims arising under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Equal Pay Act (“EPA”), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., as amended including, but not limited to, breach of fiduciary duty and equitable claims brought under § 1132(a)(3) (“ERISA”), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (state or federal), as amended, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (“ADEA”), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871 and 1991, including Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (to the extent permitted by law), the Florida Civil Rights Act, Florida’s Whistleblower’s Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, the Florida Minimum Wage Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act, the Florida Constitution, Florida’s Connecticut Statutes, the Hillsborough County Human Rights OrdinanceOfficial Code of Georgia (including but not limited to Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia), the Miami-Dade Wage Theft Ordinance, Miami-Dade County’s Human Rights OrdinanceGeorgia Constitution, the Miami-Dade County Georgia Equal Pay Equal Work Act, Georgia’s Sex Discrimination in Employment Act, Georgia’s Equal Employment for Persons with Disabilities Code, Georgia’s Common Day of Rest Act, ACTIVE/ 78077235.1 Xxxxxxx’s Hope Act, Georgia’s Smokefree Air Act, the Miami-Dade County Family Leave OrdinanceGeorgia Fair Employment Practices Act, and/or any other federal, state or local human rights, civil rights, wage-hour, pension, whistleblower, or labor law, rule, statute, regulation, constitution or ordinance and/or public policy, contract or tort law, or any claim of retaliation under such laws, or any claim of breach of any contract (whether express, oral, written or implied from any source), or any claim of intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations, wrongful or abusive or constructive discharge, defamation, discrimination, failure to accommodate, interference with leave rights (including but not limited to family, medical, sick, or personal leaves), retaliation, harassment, failure to retain records, prima facie tort, fraud, negligence, loss of consortium, malpractice, breach of duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty or any action similar thereto against RELEASEES, including any claim for attorneys’ fees, expenses or costs based upon any conduct from the beginning of the world up to and including the Effective Date of this Agreement; provided, however, that Associate does not waive any right to file an administrative charge with the EEOC, subject to the condition that Associate agrees not to seek, or in any way obtain or accept, any monetary award, recovery or settlement therefrom; and further provided, however, that Associate does not waive any rights with respect to, or release the Company from, payments of any and all benefits and/or monies earned, accrued, vested or otherwise owing, if any, to Associate under the terms of the Company’s retirement, savings, deferred compensation and/or profit sharing plan(s) or any claims for state Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits (except that Associate hereby releases and waives any claims that Associate’s termination was to avoid payment of such benefits or payments or that, as a result of Associate’s termination, Associate is entitled to additional benefits or payments); and further provided, however, that Associate does not release any claim of breach of the terms of this Agreement, subject to the confidentiality obligations in Paragraph 10 of this Agreement. (c) Thus, for the purpose of implementing a full and complete release and discharge of the RELEASEES, Associate expressly acknowledges that this general release is intended to include in its effect, without limitation, all claims which Associate does not know or suspect to exist in Associate’s favor at the time of execution hereof, and that this general release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims. (d) Associate agrees to immediately seek and obtain dismissal with prejudice of any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding (unless such proceeding is a class action, in which case Associate agrees to “opt out” of the class and not participate in the class action and such proceeding is at or initiated by the EEOC) in the event that, for any reason, any complaint, lawsuit, action, cause of action, administrative charge, claim, controversy, demand, grievance or proceeding covered by Paragraphs 3 is pending or is instituted on Associate’s behalf, and to not, unless required by law to do so (and then subject to the terms of Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4), testify, provide documents or otherwise participate or request others to participate on Associate’s behalf in any such proceeding or litigation arising therefrom or associated therewith, and, in no event, from any such source or proceeding whatsoever, to seek, or in any way obtain or accept any monetary award, recovery, settlement or relief therefrom. Associate’s obligation to dismiss and/or withdraw any and all complaints includes, but is not limited to, any complaint made internally to the Company or any of the RELEASEES – via any medium including, but not limited to, the Company’s Ethics Point hotline – either in Associate’s own name or anonymously, about any of the RELEASEES or any associate, employee, agent, or representative of ACTIVE/ 78077235.1 any of the RELEASEES. Should Associate file or otherwise bring a claim in violation of Paragraph 3 or fail to seek and obtain such dismissal or withdrawal or “opt out” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Associate will, at the option of the Company, be considered in material breach of this Agreement.