Worker Nonsolicit. The Participant will not, directly or indirectly through providing assistance to others, knowingly: (i) participate in soliciting or communicating (verbally, electronically, or in other written form) with a Covered Worker for the purpose of persuading the Covered Worker to go to work for a Competitor or to end or modify the Covered Worker’s relationship with the Company Group, or (ii) assist a Competitor in efforts to hire a Covered Worker away from the Company Group. A “Covered Worker” means an employee or individual worker engaged as an independent contractor of Company Group that the Participant works with, gains knowledge of or is provided Confidential Information about in the Look Back Period. A worker who resigns will continue to be considered a Covered Worker for a period of six months after the worker’s employment or other engagement with the Company Group ends except where doing so would make this restriction unenforceable.
