General and Administrative 4.1 This Agreement shall be governed in all respects and aspects by the laws of the State of Texas, and the parties hereby agree any legal action concerning this Agreement shall be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction, in Lubbock County, Texas. If counsel is required to enforce terms of this Agreement and/ or corollary agreements, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs.
4.2 If any provision of this Agreement, or its application to any person or circumstance, is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement or the application of those provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
4.3 This Agreement and the attachments hereto, contain the entire Agreement of the parties and there are no representatives, inducements, promises, agreements, arrangements, or undertakings, oral or written, between parties other than those set forth and duly executed in writing. No agreement of any kind shall be binding upon either party unless and until the same has been made in writing and duly executed by both parties. The Agreement shall not be modified or amended except by written agreement executed by both parties.
4.4 The parties have reviewed this Agreement in its entirety and acknowledge each has had a full opportunity to negotiate the Agreements terms. Therefore, the parties expressly waive any and all applicable common law and statutory rules of construction any provision of this Agreement should be construed against the Agreement’s drafter, and agree and affirm the Agreement and all provisions thereof shall in all cases be construed as a whole, according to the fair meaning of the language utilized.
4.5 Failure to insist upon strict compliance with any of the terms, covenants, and conditions hereof shall not be deemed a waiver of such terms, covenants, and conditions, nor shall any waiver or relinquishment of any right or power here under at any one or more times be deemed a waiver or relinquishment of such right or power at any other time or times. No waiver shall be valid unless in writing and signed by all parties.
4.6 The captions of each section are added as a matter of convenience only and shall be considered of no effect in the construction of any provision of this Agreement.
4.7 This Agreement may be executed by facsimile or e-mail attachment and/ or in any number of counterparts, any or all of which may contain the signatures of less than all parties, and all of which shall be construed together as but a single instrument and shall be binding on the parties as though originally executed on one originally executed document. All facsimile and e-mail attachment counterparts shall be promptly followed with delivery of original executed counterparts.
4.8 This Agreement shall become effective upon execution of the Group Contract, Group Itinerary, and Group Package Options form by the parties involved.
UNION SECURITY AND CHECK-OFF 5.01 All present seniority employees who are currently members of the Union will be required to continue to be members of the Union as a condition of employment for the duration of this Agreement.
5.02 Present probationary employees and newly hired employees upon completion of their probationary period, shall become members of the Union, and will be required to continue to be members of the Union as a condition of employment for the duration of this Agreement.
5.03 The Company will deduct from the pay of each employee, including new hirees, the monthly dues and other assessments authorized by the constitution of the Union. The initiation fee shall be taken off the following pay period after the employee has completed his probationary period. This deduction will be shown on a separate column on the Union dues list prescribed in 5.04. The Union dues shall be taken off the following pay period after an employee has worked 40 hours in any one calendar month. Union dues shall be calculated on the basis of the average of an employee’s total earnings as defined in the constitution and by-laws of the national and local Union for the previous calendar month. The Company shall deduct from each employee’s regular supplemental unemployment benefits the monthly dues and other assessments as authorized by the constitution of the Union. The Union will notify the Company, in writing, two (2) weeks in advance of the relevant month of any changes in monthly dues deductions to be made. The Company agrees to include on an employee’s T4 slip for income tax purposes the total Union dues paid for the year, excluding any initiation fees.
5.04 A list of the total number of employees, along with all sums deducted as above shall be remitted by the Company to the financial secretary of the local Union by the 15th of the month following the month in which the deductions were made. This list will contain employee names, payroll numbers, addresses and telephone numbers, along with the amount of such deductions and the reason, if any, why no deductions were made from certain employees. This list will also indicate any employee whose employment is terminated, transferred out of the bargaining unit, on layoff, leave of absence, or died. The Company will also provide the financial secretary with the monthly alphabetical employee list. The Company will reimburse any employee any dues that have been deducted in error as long as a claim has been submitted to the Company before the last day of the calendar month in which the deduction was made.
5.05 The Union shall indemnify and save the Company harmless against any and all claims, demands, suits and other forms of liability that arise out of or by reason of any action taken or not taken by the Company for the purpose of complying with any of the provisions of this article, or in reliance on any lists, notice or assessment furnished under such provisions.
Minor and Administrative Errors A Competent Authority shall notify the Competent Authority of the other Party when the first-mentioned Competent Authority has reason to believe that administrative errors or other minor errors may have led to incorrect or incomplete information reporting or resulted in other infringements of this Agreement. The Competent Authority of such other Party shall apply its domestic law (including applicable penalties) to obtain corrected and/or complete information or to resolve other infringements of this Agreement.
Security and Offset Issuer hereby grants to NCPS and the Indemnified Parties a security interest in and lien upon the Escrow Funds (to the extent of Issuer’s rights thereto) to secure all obligations hereunder, and NCPS and the Indemnified Parties shall have the right to offset the amount of any compensation or reimbursement due any of them hereunder (including any claim for indemnification pursuant to Section 9 hereof) against the Escrow Funds (to the extent of Issuer’s rights thereto.) If for any reason the Escrow Funds available to NCPS and the Indemnified Parties pursuant to such security interest or right of offset are insufficient to cover such compensation and reimbursement, Issuer shall promptly pay such amounts to NCPS and the Indemnified Parties upon receipt of an itemized invoice.
Security and Charge 15.1 In consideration of the Supplier agreeing to supply the Goods, the Client charges all of its rights, title and interest (whether joint or several) in any land, realty or other assets capable of being charged, owned by the Client either now or in the future, to secure the performance by the Client of its obligations under these terms and conditions (including, but not limited to, the payment of any money).
15.2 The Client indemnifies the Supplier from and against all the Supplier’s costs and disbursements including legal costs on a solicitor and own client basis incurred in exercising the Supplier’s rights under this clause.
15.3 The Client irrevocably appoints the Supplier and each director of the Supplier as the Client’s true and lawful attorney/s to perform all necessary acts to give effect to the provisions of this clause 15 including, but not limited to, signing any document on the Client’s behalf.
Priority and Liens (a) Subject to the Approval Order and the Security and Pledge Agreement, the Borrower and each of the Guarantors hereby covenants, represents and warrants that, upon entry of the Approval Order, the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations (including the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors in respect of any hedging obligations permitted hereunder and Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.03(viii), in each case owing to JPMCB, any other Lender or any of their respective banking Affiliates) and subject, in each of clauses (i) through (iv) below, to the Carve-Out:
(i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute allowed claims in the Cases having priority over any and all administrative expenses, diminution claims (including the Replacement Liens and Junior Adequate Protection Liens) and all other claims against the Borrower and the Guarantors, now existing or hereafter arising, of any kind whatsoever, including all administrative expenses of the kind specified in Sections 503(b) or 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche C Loan;
(ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior security interest in and Lien on all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ respective estates in the Cases that is not subject to valid, perfected, non-avoidable and enforceable Liens in existence on the Closing Date, including all present and future accounts receivable, inventory, general intangibles, chattel paper, real property, leaseholds, fixtures, machinery and equipment, deposit accounts, patents, copyrights, trademarks, tradenames, rights under license agreements and other intellectual property, capital stock of any Subsidiaries of the Borrower and Guarantors and on all cash and investments maintained in the Letter of Credit Account (but excluding (x) the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ rights in respect of avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code and (y) joint venture interests with respect to which a valid prohibition on pledging such interests or granting Liens thereon exists, it being understood that, notwithstanding such exclusion of such interests, the proceeds of such interests shall be subject to such liens under Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and available to satisfy the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations);
(iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected security interests in and Liens upon all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors (other than property described in clauses (ii) and (iv), as to which the liens and security interests in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will be as described in such clauses) that is subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens in existence on the Closing Date, which security interests and liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are junior to such valid, perfected and unavoidable liens;
(iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior priming security interest in and senior priming Lien on all of the tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors that is subject to existing Liens that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are subject and subordinate to the Existing DIP Liens, which existing liens, rights and interests (the “Primed Liens”) shall be primed by and made subject and subordinate to the liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, which senior priming liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall also prime any liens granted under the Approval Order or thereafter to provide adequate protection in respect of the Primed Liens; provided, however, that such security interests and liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be subject and subordinate to (x) the Carve-Out, (y) any valid, perfected and unavoidable interests of other parties arising out of liens existing on the Closing Date, if any, on such property that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are senior in priority to the Existing DIP Liens and (z) statutory liens or security interests arising after the Closing Date and permitted under this Agreement that by operation of law would have priority over a previously perfected security interest; provided, further, that any valid, perfected and non-voidable liens or security interests that remain in existence after the Closing Date and that were senior to or pari passu with the liens securing obligations under the Existing Pre-Petition Agreement prior to the Closing Date shall maintain such priority or pari passu position relative to the liens securing the Tranche C Loan; provided, however, that (w) all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche C Loan; (x) the Borrower and the Guarantors shall not be required to pledge to the Administrative Agent in excess of 65% of the voting capital stock of its direct Foreign Subsidiaries or any of the capital stock or interests of its indirect Foreign Subsidiaries (if, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, adverse tax consequences would result to the Borrower); (y) no portion of the Carve-Out may be utilized to fund prosecution or assertion of any claims against the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Issuing Lenders and (z) following the Termination Date, amounts in the Letter of Credit Account shall not be subject to the Carve-Out. The Lenders agree that so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower and the Guarantors shall be permitted to pay compensation and reimbursement of expenses allowed and payable under Sections 330 and 331 of title 11 of the United States Code, as the same may be due and payable, and the same shall not reduce the Carve-Out.
(b) Subject to the priorities set forth in subsection (a) above and to the Carve-Out, as to all real property the title to which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors, or the possession of which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors pursuant to leasehold interests and which secured the Existing Pre-Petition Indebtedness prior to the refinancing thereof on the Closing Date, the Borrower and each Guarantor hereby assigns and conveys as security, grants a security interest in, hypothecates, mortgages, pledges and sets over unto the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in all of such owned real property and in all such leasehold interests, together in each case with all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in and to all buildings, improvements, and fixtures related thereto, any lease or sublease thereof, all general intangibles relating thereto and all proceeds thereof. The Borrower and each Guarantor acknowledges that, pursuant to the Approval Order, the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders in all of such real property and leasehold instruments shall be perfected without the recordation of any instruments of mortgage or assignment. The Borrower and each Guarantor further agrees that, upon the request of the Administrative Agent following the occurrence of an Event of Default (regardless of whether such Event of Default is continuing), the Borrower and such Guarantor shall enter into separate fee or leasehold mortgages in recordable form with respect to such properties on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
PRESERVATION OF COLLATERAL AND PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS THEREIN Borrower shall, at Lender's request, at any time and from time to time, authenticate, execute and deliver to Lender such financing statements, documents and other agreements and instruments (and pay the cost of filing or recording the same in all public offices deemed necessary or desirable by Lender) and do such other acts and things or cause third parties to do such other acts and things as Lender may deem necessary or desirable in its sole discretion in order to establish and maintain a valid, attached and perfected security interest in the Collateral in favor of Lender (free and clear of all other liens, claims, encumbrances and rights of third parties whatsoever, whether voluntarily or involuntarily created, except Permitted Liens) to secure payment of the Liabilities, and in order to facilitate the collection of the Collateral. Borrower irrevocably hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Lender (and all Persons designated by Lender for that purpose) as Borrower's true and lawful attorney and agent-in-fact to execute and file such financing statements, documents and other agreements and instruments and do such other acts and things as may be necessary to preserve and perfect Lender's security interest in the Collateral. Borrower further agrees that a carbon, photographic, photostatic or other reproduction of this Agreement or of a financing statement shall be sufficient as a financing statement. Borrower further ratifies and confirms the prior filing by Lender of any and all financing statements which identify the Borrower as debtor, Lender as secured party and any or all Collateral as collateral.
UNION SECURITY AND DUES CHECK-OFF 3.1 It shall be a condition of employment that all employees of the Employer covered by this Agreement who are members of the Union in good standing on the effective date of this Agreement shall remain members in good standing. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired on or after January 1, 2004 shall, on the thirtieth (30th) calendar day following the beginning of such employment become and remain a member in good standing in the Union.
3.1.1 Should bona fide religious convictions of an employee dictate he/she may not join a Union, he/she shall be required to pay an amount equivalent to the Union initiation fee and monthly dues to a non-religious charity mutually agreed upon by the employee and the Union. If such employee pursuant to this Section requests the Union to use the Grievance and Arbitration Procedure on his/her behalf, the Union is authorized to charge the employee for the reasonable cost of using such procedure.
3.1.2 In the event an employee fails to apply for or maintain his/her membership in the Union as required in Sections 3.1 or 3.
1.1 of this Agreement, the Union may give the Employer notice of this fact and fourteen (14) calendar days following receipt of such notice, the service of such employee shall be suspended without pay by the Employer.
3.2 When the Employer hires a new employee covered in the bargaining unit, the Employer shall, within seven (7) calendar days of the date of employment, notify the Union in writing giving the name, social security number, hire date, address and classification of the employee hired. The Union agrees to defend and hold the Employer harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, lawsuits, orders or judgments arising from the administration and effects of this Section.
3.3 When provided a "voluntary check-off" authorization form furnished by the Union and signed by the employee, the Employer agrees to deduct from that employee's pay, the Union's applicable dues and/or service fees, as prescribed in the "voluntary check-off" form. The full amount of monies so deducted from the employee shall be promptly forwarded to the Union by check along with an alphabetized list showing names and amounts deducted from each employee. The Union agrees to defend and hold the Employer harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, lawsuits, orders or judgments arising from the administration and effects of this Article.
3.4 Work of the Bargaining Unit shall only be performed by members of the Bargaining Unit, who are in good standing with the local Union, except under emergency conditions or such work is incidental or de minimis.
Authority of Administrative Agent to Release Collateral and Liens Each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to release any collateral that is permitted to be sold or released pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents. Each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver to the Borrower, at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, any and all releases of Liens, termination statements, assignments or other documents reasonably requested by the Borrower in connection with any sale or other disposition of Property to the extent such sale or other disposition is permitted by the terms of Section 9.12 or is otherwise authorized by the terms of the Loan Documents.
Management and Administration 5.1 TxDOT Responsibility for Policy Decisions
