Service Level Agreement 6.1 NCR Voyix will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Service available to you at or above the Availability Rate set forth at ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇▇/support/aloha-sla. If NCR Voyix does not meet the Availability Rate, you are entitled to request a service-level credit subject to the terms of this Agreement. This credit is calculated as a percentage of the monthly recurring bill (or monthly pro rata share of billing, if billing does not occur monthly) for the Service for the month in which the Availability Rate was not met. The Availability Rate is determined by: (a) dividing the total number of valid outage minutes in a calendar month by the total number of minutes in that month; (b) subtracting that quotient from 1.00; (c) multiplying that difference by 100; and (d) rounding that result to two decimal places in accordance with standard rounding conventions. The number of outage minutes per day for a given service is determined by the lesser of the number of outage minutes. 6.2 Unavailability due to other conditions or caused by factors outside of NCR Voyix’s reasonable control will not be included in the calculation of the Availability Rate. Further, the following are expressly excluded from the calculation of the Availability Rate: (a) service unavailability affecting services or application program interfaces that are not used by you; (b) cases where fail-over to another data center is available but not utilized; (c) transient time-outs, required re-tries, or slower-than-normal response caused by factors outside of NCR Voyix’s reasonable control; (d) Scheduled Downtime, including maintenance and upgrades; (e) force majeure; (f) transmission or communications outages outside the NCR Voyix- controlled environment; (g) store-level down-time caused by factors outside of NCR Voyix’s reasonable control; (h) outages attributable to services, hardware, or software not provided by NCR Voyix, including, but not limited to, issues resulting from inadequate bandwidth or related to third-party software or services; (i) use of the Service in a manner inconsistent with the documentation for the application program interface or the NCR Voyix Product; (j) your Point of Sale (“POS”) failure or the failure to properly maintain the POS environment, including updating the POS firmware or version of the software running on the POS as recommended by either NCR Voyix, a third-party POS reseller or servicer; and (k) issues related to third party domain name system (“DNS”) errors or failures. 6.3 To obtain a service-level credit, you must submit a claim by contacting NCR Voyix through the website at ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇▇/support/aloha-sla Your failure to provide the claim and other information will disqualify you from receiving a credit. NCR Voyix must receive claims within 60 days from the last day of the impacted month. After that date, claims are considered waived and will be refused. You must be in compliance with the Agreement in order to be eligible for a service-level credit. You may not unilaterally offset for any performance or availability issues any amount owed to NCR Voyix. If multiple Services experience an outage in a given month, the total credit for that month will be the highest credit allowed for any single Service which failed; there is no stacking of credits. 6.4 The remedies set forth in the Section are your sole and exclusive remedies for performance or availability issues affecting the Services, including any failure by NCR Voyix to achieve the Availability Rate.
Level 1 If an Employee wishes to submit a grievance, he/she shall first discuss the complaint with his/her immediate supervisor. The Grievance Committee representative and one administrator may also be present. This discussion must occur within ten (10) days of the event causing the complaint.
Level Four Within ten days after receiving the Board’s decision at Level Three, the Association may submit the grievance to arbitration. The Association shall notify the Board of its intention to submit the matter to arbitration within this ten-day period. After such notification, the following procedure shall be followed: a. The Association shall make a written request for the grievance’s arbitration by requesting the American Arbitration Association to submit to the parties the names of at least nine qualified arbitrators. The parties shall select the arbitrator according to the rules of the AAA. b. Each party shall provide the other with a copy of its arbitration demand. c. The arbitrator shall have no power to amend, subtract from, or add to this Agreement’s terms. The parties’ past practice in interpreting or applying this Agreement’s terms may only be relevant if the Agreement’s language is vague or ambiguous. d. If either party claims before the arbitrator that a particular grievance fails to meet the test of arbitrability, as set forth in this Grievance Procedure, the arbitrator shall first rule on such claim and, if sustained, shall not proceed further except to render the decision based upon sustaining the claim. The arbitrator’s jurisdictional authority is defined as and limited to determining any grievance between the parties to the grievance which concerns compliance with any of this Agreement’s terms, as provided in Section A(I) of this Article, and submitted to the arbitrator pursuant to this Agreement’s terms. The arbitrator shall not have authority to render a decision on any issue not submitted under these grievance procedures. Unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in writing, the arbitrator is limited to hearing only one grievance upon its merits at any one hearing. e. Neither party shall be permitted to assert in an arbitration proceeding any ground or to rely on any evidence not previously disclosed to the other party. At least ten days before the arbitration hearing the parties shall disclose (and provide copies of if at all possible) all exhibits, and a list of witnesses to be called and the anticipated nature of their testimony. f. The arbitrator’s decision on the grievance is binding and final. g. The cost of arbitration shall be divided equally between the Board and the Association. h. All documents, communications, and records dealing with the processing of a grievance shall be filed separately from the participant’s personnel file.
Level 4 If the Employee is not satisfied with the response of the Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Services, the Employee may submit the grievance to the Superintendent within ten (10) days of the receipt of the response to Level 3. The Superintendent shall sign and date all copies when he/she receives them. The Superintendent shall respond in writing within ten (10) days of the above date. Either party may be accompanied by one other Employee or administrator.
SERVICE LEVEL DESCRIPTION The Fund Accounting Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the Service Level Description attached thereto and replacing it in its entirety with the Service Level Description attached hereto.