Employment Arrangements (a) Except as required by Law, Seller has no obligation, contingent or otherwise, under any employment agreement, collective bargaining or other labor agreement, any agreement containing severance or termination pay arrangements, retainer or consulting arrangements, or purchase plan or other employee contract or non-terminable (whether with or without penalty) arrangement with respect to any person employed by Seller in connection with the businesses operated at the Restaurants (including but not limited to district managers) (collectively “Subject Employees”). (b) Except as set forth on Schedule 2.11(b), within the last five (5) years Seller has not experienced any labor disputes, union organization attempts or any work stoppage due to labor disagreements. Except as set forth on Schedule 2.11(b), (i) Seller is in substantial compliance with all applicable Laws, including all Federal and state labor laws, rules and regulations, respecting employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, and is not engaged in any unfair labor practice; (ii) there is no unfair labor practice, charge or complaint against Seller pending or threatened before the National Labor Relations Board; (iii) there is no labor strike, dispute, request for representation, slowdown or stoppage actually pending or threatened against or affecting Seller; (iv) no question concerning representation has been raised or is threatened respecting the employees of Seller; and (v) no grievance which might have an adverse effect on Seller or the conduct of its business nor any arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements is pending and no claims therefor exist. (c) Schedule 2.11(c) sets forth a true and complete list of (i) the names of all manager and assistant managers employed by Seller at the Restaurants as of the date hereof, including both salaried and hourly managers, the date such individuals were first employed by Seller, how long such individuals have been at the particular Restaurants and the salary or hourly wage payable to such persons; (ii) the names of all other persons employed by Seller at the Restaurants as of the date hereof, and the salary or hourly wage payable to each such person; and (iii) the total number of vacation days earned and/or accrued by all persons employed by Seller and the total monetary value of such accrued vacation for all such persons (“Accrued Vacation Pay”). As of the Closing, Seller shall have terminated all Subject Restaurant Employees and no additional payments shall be due and owing to any Subject Restaurant Employee with respect to any period prior to and including the Closing Date (except for any amount claimed by any Subject Restaurant Employee but which has being denied or contested by the Seller in good faith, which shall be an Excluded Liability) or amounts that Seller shall be obligated to pay (including, without limitation, payments relating to such employees' Accrued Vacation). Seller has complied with all requirements of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 and has not incurred, nor is reasonably expected to incur, any Losses under such Act. (d) Except as set forth on Schedule 2.11(d): (1) no charge against Seller or any of the employees of the Restaurants is pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, or any other Governmental Authority responsible for the prevention of unlawful employment practices related to the Restaurants; (2) no actions relating to employment or loss of employment from Seller, directly or indirectly, are pending in any Governmental Authority and no such Actions have been threatened against Seller related to the Restaurants; and (3) no notice of intent of any Governmental Authority responsible for the enforcement of labor or employment regulations to conduct an investigation has been received, and no such investigation is in progress. (e) Each of the employees at the Restaurants is employed at will and may be terminated at any time by Seller without the payment of any severance or other penalty and without any requirement that any advance notice be given in connection with such termination. (f) The Accrued Vacation has been earned and accrued in the ordinary course of Seller's business consistent with past practices. (g) Seller is not, and has not been, a party to, bound by, or negotiating any collective bargaining agreement or other Contract with a union, works council or labor organization (collectively, "Union"), and there is not, and has not been, any Union representing or purporting to represent any employee of Seller, and no Union or group of employees is seeking or has sought to organize employees for the purpose of collective bargaining. There has never been, nor has there been any threat of, any strike, slowdown, work stoppage, lockout, concerted refusal to work overtime or other similar labor disruption or dispute affecting Seller or any employees of the Business. Seller has no duty to bargain with any Union.
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 Arrangements Except as set forth on Section 8.2(h) of the UWWH Disclosure Schedules, pursuant to the terms of any collective bargaining agreements in effect as of the date hereof and disclosed on Section 6.15(a) of the UWWH Disclosure Schedules, as contemplated by this Agreement, as set forth in the Employee Matters Agreement or as otherwise required by applicable Law, UWWH shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to: (i) grant any material increases in the compensation (including bonus and incentive compensation) or fringe benefits of any UWWH Employee except any increases that would not reasonably be expected to become a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries; (ii) pay or agree to pay to any UWWH Employee any pension, retirement allowance, severance benefit or other material employee benefit not required by any of the existing UWWH Benefit Plans as in effect on the date hereof, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries; (iii) except in the ordinary course of business, enter into any new, or terminate or materially amend any existing collective bargaining agreement or relationship, employment, severance or termination Contract or other arrangement with any UWWH Employee or his or her representative, provided, that any such new collective bargaining agreement or any termination of or material amendment to any such existing collective bargaining agreement in the ordinary course of business shall be subject to review by xpedx senior management reasonably in advance of the conclusion of such negotiations, and xpedx senior management shall have been informed periodically of the status of negotiations with respect thereto; (iv) (A) become obligated under any new pension plan, welfare plan, employee benefit plan (including any equity incentive plan), severance plan, benefit arrangement or similar plan or arrangement sponsored or maintained by UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries that was not in existence on the date hereof, or (B) amend any such plan or arrangement in existence on the date hereof, except in the case of (B) (x) as would not result in a material increase in the annual aggregate cost (based on UWWH’s historical annual aggregate cost) of maintaining such pension plan, welfare plan, employee benefit plan, severance plan, trust, fund, policy or arrangement or (y) as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Liability of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries; (v) grant any equity-based compensation to any UWWH Employee or director or independent contractor of UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries; (vi) make any offer for the employment or engagement of any UWWH Employee or other individual on a full-time, part-time, or consulting basis providing for an annual compensation in excess of $250,000; (vii) implement any distribution center, facility, warehouse or business unit closing or mass layoff that could implicate WARN; or (viii) make any loan to (x) any director, officer or member of senior management of UWWH or any of its Subsidiaries or (y) except in the ordinary course of business and in compliance with applicable Law, to any other UWWH Employee.
Benefit Arrangements Each Benefit Arrangement has been maintained in compliance, in all material respects, with its terms and with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations which are applicable to such Benefit Arrangement, including without limitation, the Code, and with all plan documents. Except as set forth in SCHEDULE 4.8 and except as provided by law, the employment of all persons presently employed or retained by the Company is terminable at will.
Savings and Retirement Plans During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all other savings and retirement plans, practices, policies and programs, in each case on terms and conditions no less favorable than the terms and conditions generally applicable to the Company’s other executive employees.
Retirement Plans (a) In connection with the individual retirement accounts, simplified employee pension plans, rollover individual retirement plans, educational IRAs and XXXX individual retirement accounts (“XXX Plans”), 403(b) Plans and money purchase and profit sharing plans (“Qualified Plans”) (collectively, the “Retirement Plans”) within the meaning of Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) sponsored by a Fund for which contributions of the Fund’s shareholders (the “Participants”) are invested solely in Shares of the Fund, Transfer Agent shall provide the following administrative services: (i) Establish a record of types and reasons for distributions (i.e., attainment of eligible withdrawal age, disability, death, return of excess contributions, etc.); (ii) Record method of distribution requested and/or made; (iii) Receive and process designation of beneficiary forms requests; (iv) Examine and process requests for direct transfers between custodians/trustees, transfer and pay over to the successor assets in the account and records pertaining thereto as requested; (v) Prepare any annual reports or returns required to be prepared and/or filed by a custodian of a Retirement Plan, including, but not limited to, an annual fair market value report, Forms 1099R and 5498; and file same with the IRS and provide same to Participant/Beneficiary, as applicable; and (vi) Perform applicable federal withholding and send Participants/Beneficiaries an annual TEFRA notice regarding required federal tax withholding. (b) Transfer Agent shall arrange for PFPC Trust Company to serve as custodian for the Retirement Plans sponsored by a Fund. (c) With respect to the Retirement Plans, Transfer Agent shall provide each Fund with the associated Retirement Plan documents for use by the Fund and Transfer Agent shall be responsible for the maintenance of such documents in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Severance Arrangements Grant or pay, or enter into any Contract providing for the granting of any severance, retention or termination pay, or the acceleration of vesting or other benefits, to any Person (other than payments or acceleration that have been disclosed to Acquirer and are set forth on Schedule 4.2(q) of the Company Disclosure Letter);
Compensation Arrangements (a) Following receipt of an RoU Claim Notice in respect of a Type 2 Restriction of Use, Network Rail and the Train Operator shall (if they have not already done so) commence negotiations in respect of the RoU Direct Costs compensation to be paid by one party to the other in respect of such Type 2 Restriction of Use and, subject to paragraph 10, shall continue such negotiations in good faith until they are concluded. (b) Once the compensation referred to in paragraph 6.1(a) has been agreed or determined (and has been compared against any amounts calculated under paragraph 4 together with any other amounts paid or due to the Train Operator from Network Rail in relation to such Restriction of Use) then, in the event of: (i) a shortfall for the Train Operator, the compensation to be paid by Network Rail to the Train Operator shall be the full amount of the RoU Direct Costs actually incurred by the Train Operator less any amounts calculated under paragraph 4 which have already been paid or are due for such Restriction of Use and any other amounts in respect of any RoU Direct Costs received by the Train Operator from Network Rail in respect of such Restriction of Use; or (ii) an overpayment by Network Rail to the Train Operator, the compensation to be paid by the Train Operator to Network Rail shall be the difference between the amount received by the Train Operator which was calculated under paragraph 4 and the RoU Direct Costs actually incurred by the Train Operator in respect of such Restriction of Use. (c) Network Rail shall include in the statement provided by it in respect of each Period under paragraph 13.1(a) details of the compensation agreed or determined under this paragraph 6 and paragraph 10 to be payable in respect of any Type 2 Restriction of Use taken in that Period and that compensation shall be due and payable by the relevant party to the other in accordance with paragraph 13.1.
Benefits Plans During the Employment Period, You will be eligible to participate in all benefit plans in effect for executives and employees of the Company, subject to the terms and conditions of such plans.
Employee Benefit Arrangements (i) All liabilities under the Employee Benefit Arrangements are (A) funded to at least the minimum level required by Law or, if higher, to the level required by the terms governing the Employee Benefit Arrangements, (B) insured with a reputable insurance company, (C) provided for or recognized in the financial statements most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof or (D) estimated in the formal notes to the financial statements most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01 hereof, where such failure to fund, insure, provide for, recognize or estimate the liabilities arising under such arrangements could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (ii) There are no circumstances which may give rise to a liability in relation to the Employee Benefit Arrangements which are not funded, insured, provided for, recognized or estimated in the manner described in clause (i) above and which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (iii) Each of Parent and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable Laws, trust documentation and contracts relating to the Employee Benefit Arrangements (including pursuant to any applicable procedures under applicable Law, as appropriate), except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.