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Credit Enhancement Agreement

Credit Enhancement Agreement。

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CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT betweenAAA, _________(ADDRESS) and BBB CORPORATION Dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents (

Credit Enhancement Agreement。

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CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT betweenAAA, _________(ADDRESS) and BBB CORPORATION Dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to $1,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of id="article-content1">

Credit Enhancement Agreement。

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CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT betweenAAA, _________(ADDRESS) and BBB CORPORATION Dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to $1,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of id="article-content1">

Credit Enhancement Agreement。

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CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT betweenAAA, _________(ADDRESS) and BBB CORPORATION Dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to $1,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of id="article-content1">

Credit Enhancement Agreement。

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CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT betweenAAA, _________(ADDRESS) and BBB CORPORATION Dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to $1,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Section 1.1. Definitions

Section 1.2. Interpretation and Construction

Section 1.3. Development Program

Section 1.4. Completion

Section 1.5. City Costs

Section 1.6. Agreement Controls

ARTICLE II

Section 2.1. Creation of Development Program Fund

Section 2.2. Liens

Section 2.3. Deposits into Development Program Fund

Section 2.4. Monies Held in Trust

ARTICLE III

Section 3.1. Credit Enhancement Payments

Section 3.2. Failure to Make Payment

Section 3.3. Manner of Payments

Section 3.4. Obligations Unconditional

Section 3.5. Limited Obligation

Section 3.6. Calculation of Retained Tax Increment

Section 3.7. Revaluation

ARTICLE IV

Section 4.1. Pledge of Project Cost Account

Section 4.2. Perfection of Interest

Section 4.3. Further Instruments

Section 4.4. No Disposition of Developer Subaccount

Section 4.5. Access to Books and Records

ARTICLE V

Section 5.1. Events of Default

Section 5.2. Remedies on Default

Section 5.3. Remedies Cumulative

Section 5 .4. Agreement to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Expenses

Section 5.5. Tax Laws

ARTICLE VI

Section 6.1. Effective Date and Term

Section 6.2. Cancellation and Expiration of Term

ARTICLE VII

Section 7.1. Consent to Pledge and/or Assignment

Section 7.2. Pledge, Assignment or Security Interest

Section 7.3. Assignment

ARTICLE VIII

Section 8.1. Successors

Section 8.2. Parties in Interest

Section 8.3. Severability

Section 8.4. No Personal Liability of Officials of the City

Section 8.5. Counterparts

Section 8.6. Governing Law

Section 8.7. Notices

Section 8.8. Amendments

Section 8.9. Net Agreement

Section 8.10. Benefit of Assignee or Pledges

Section 8.11. Integration

Section 8.12. Disputes

Section 8.13. Arbitration

THIS CREDIT ENHANCEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), between the AAA, _________ (the 'City'), a municipal body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the State of _________, and BBB Corporation (the 'Developer'), a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS) .

WITNESSETH THAT

  WHEREAS, the City designated The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 (the 'Districts') pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by action of the City Council at a City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) (the 'Vote') and pursuant to the same Vote adopted a development program and financial plan for the Districts (the 'Development Program'); and

WHEREAS, the _________(ADDRESS) Department of Economic and Community Development has reviewed and accepted the District and the Development Program effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); and

WHEREAS, the Development Program contemplates the execution and delivery of a credit enhancement agreement between the City and the Developer; and

WHEREAS, the City and the Developer desire and intend that this Credit Enhancement Agreement be and constitute the credit enhancement agreement contemplated by and described in the Development Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants set forth herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS: INTERPRETATIONS

SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the meanings herein specified, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

'Agreement' shall mean this Credit Enhancement Agreement between the City and the Developer.

'Captured Assessed Value' shall mean the valuation amount by which the then current assessed value of the Districts exceeds the Original Assessed Value of the Districts.

'City' means the AAA, _________(ADDRESS), a municipality duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

'City Share' means (a) all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues other than the Developer Share thereof plus (b) all interest and earnings on all of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, except as provided in Section 3.1(e) hereof.

'Developer' means BBB Corporation, a _________(ADDRESS) corporation with a place of business in Bath, _________(ADDRESS).

'Development Program' means the development program for the District as adopted by the Bath City Council at a Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Development Program Fund' means the development program fund described in the Financial Plan section of the Development Program and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof.

'Developer Share' means (a) 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility and 50% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility, for each of the twenty-five years of the term of this Agreement (commencing with the year _________ Tax Year) of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues, provided, however, that such percentages shall be reduced to the following amounts at such time that the aggregate amount of payments by the City to the Developer during the term of this Agreement and pursuant to this Agreement equal $ _________; 100% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value equal to the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility with respect to assessed value of real property in excess of the assessed value of Land Level Facility (District #1) real property as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y); 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Land Level Facility; 35% of the Real Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility; and 35% of the Personal Property Increment with respect to the Existing Facility.

In the event that the Tax Shift Formulas are changed and as a result the City's Tax Shift amount is decreased by reason of inclusion in the City's valuation for purposes of the Tax Shift Formulas of any portion of the Captured Assessed Value with respect to which the Developer's Share is determined hereunder, then, commencing with the later of (a) the _________ Fiscal Year or (b) the Fiscal Year in which the Tax Shift Formulas are changed, the Developer Share shall be reduced by an amount equal to 50% of the difference, calculated solely with respect to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment, between (a) the Tax Shift as determined using the method set forth in the current Tax Shift Formulas and (b) the Tax Shift as properly determined using the then effective State laws relating to state aid to education, revenue sharing and county tax; any reduction under this paragraph shall be calculated annually and applied to reduce the payments of the Developer Share on the next scheduled payment date herein following such calculation.

A change in the Tax Shift resulting other than from including Captured Assessed Value in the City's valuation shall not result in a reduction of the Developer's Share.

Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, for purposes of calculating the Developer's Share, the platform for the Land Level Transfer System (the concrete pad, filled land and pilings supporting the structures thereon) shall be included within the real property increment of the Land Level Facility.

'District(s)' means the BBB Corporation Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #1 ('District #1') and The BBB Municipal Development and Tax Increment Financing District #2 ('District #2') designated by the City pursuant to Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as amended, by vote at City Council Meeting held on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), which Districts shall include the Existing Facility and the Land Level Facility.

'Effective Date' means _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Existing Facility' means the Property consisting of the existing shipbuilding facility of the Developer, located on the parcel shown on Tax _________,_________(M,D) as Parcel 142 within District #2, including all land, buildings, and all personal property located on such parcel as of _________,_________(M,D) each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto within the existing geographic boundaries of such facility, all as currently depicted on Exhibit A hereto.

'Financial Plan' means the financial plan described in the 'Financial Plan' Section of the Development Program.

'Fiscal Year' means _________,_________(M/D) to _________,_________(M/D) of each year or such other fiscal year as the City may from time to time establish; for purposes of this Agreement, the Fiscal Year _________ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and the Fiscal Year _________$ means the Fiscal Year commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) and ending _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).

'Land Level Facility' means the land level facility to be constructed in District #1 by the Developer adjacent to the Existing Facility, together with all land, buildings, personal property located on such adjacent land as of April 1 of each year subject to City ad valorem taxes together with all improvements or additions thereto as depicted on Exhibit B hereto.

'Original Assessed Value' means $ _________, the assessed value of the Districts as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) as the same may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 3.7 hereof.

'Personal Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in personal property valuations with respect to personal property located in the Districts.

'Project' means the design, planning, development, acquisition, construction and operation of the Land Level Facility and other BBB Corporation improvements within the Districts as described in the Development Program.

'Project Cost Account' means the project cost account described in the Financial Plan Section of the Development Program consisting of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount and established and maintained pursuant to Article II hereof and to provisions of 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5254(3)(A)(2).

'Project Costs' means 'project costs' as defined in 30-A M.R.S.A.

Section 5152(8).

'Property' means all real property and all personal property now or hereafter located in the Districts.

'Property Taxes' means any and all ad valorem property taxes levied, charged or assessed against real or personal property in the Districts by the City, or on its behalf.

'Real Property Increment' means that portion of the Tax Increment attributable to increases in real estate valuations with respect to real estate located in the Districts.

'Retained Tax Increment Revenues' means that portion of the Tax Increment to be retained by the City and deposited into the Development Program Fund pursuant to the terms of the Development Program and this Agreement.

'Tax Increment' means the real and personal property taxes exclusive of any state, country or special district tax, assessed by the City on the captured assessed value of property within the Districts, which Tax Increment shall consist of the Real Property Increment and the Personal Property Increment.

'Tax Payment Date' means the date(s) on which property taxes levied by the City are due and payable from owners of property located within the City.

'Tax Shift' means the decrease in county tax payable by the City and the increases in State aid for education and revenue sharing in all three cases resulting from the exclusion of Captured Assessed Value from the City's valuation in calculating such amounts of county tax, State aid to education and revenue sharing under the current Tax Shift Formulas.

'Tax Shift Formulas' mean the formulas currently utilized by the State of _________(ADDRESS) in calculating (a) the county tax payable in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A.Section 706 and 36 M.R.S.A. Sections 305(1), 381; (b) the municipal revenue sharing distribution of the Local Government Fund in accordance with 30-A M.R.S.A. Section 5681; and (c) State aid to education, including aid for total operating costs, total program cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker) and total debt service cost allocation (taking into account the maximum local share or circuit breaker), all as computed in accordance with _________(ADDRESS) Department of Education Form ED 261.

SECTION 1.2. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The terms 'hereby,' 'hereof,' 'hereto,' 'herein,' 'hereunder' and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement, and the term 'hereafter' means after, and the term 'heretofore' means before, the date of delivery of this Agreement.

(b) Words importing a particular gender mean and include correlative words of every other gender and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.

(c) Words importing persons mean and include firms, associations, partnerships (including limited partnerships), trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, as well as any natural persons.

(d) Any headings preceding the texts of the several Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and any table of contents or marginal notes appended to copies hereof, shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, all approvals, consents and acceptances required to be given or made pursuant to this Agreement by any signatory hereto shall not be withheld unreasonably, provided, that this paragraph shall not apply to approvals, consents and acceptances under applicable laws, ordinances and codes, including, without limitation, land use ordinances.

(f) All notices to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and, unless a certain number of days is specified, within a reasonable time.

(g) If any clause, provision or Section of this Agreement shall be ruled invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision or Section shall not affect any of the remaining provisions hereof except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 hereof.

SECTION 1.3. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Neither this Agreement nor the Development Program obligate the Developer to construct the Land Level Facility or to make any other improvements to its facility.

SECTION 1.4. COMPLETION. The Developer shall have completed as much of the Development Program as will qualify for financial assistance hereunder within five (5) years after the Effective Date. If none of the Development Program is completed within five (5) years after the Effective Date, then this Agreement (except Section 1.5 pertaining to costs) and the District shall terminate at the end of five (5) years after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no payments shall be made or be payable by the City to the Developer under this Agreement unless such payments are used to pay or reimburse the Developer for Project Costs incurred within five (5) years of the Effective Date pursuant to proper documentation thereof provided by the Developer pursuant to Section 3.1(d) hereof.

SECTION 1.5. CITY COSTS. The Developer shall pay or reimburse the City for all reasonable fees, expenses and other charges of the City and its consultants, including the City's attorneys, accountants and overtime of the City's appraiser, tax assessor and other City staff, in connection with the review, negotiation, approval, execution, administration, enforcement and carrying out of this Agreement and the review, negotiation, approval, administration, enforcement and carrying out of the Development Program. Notwithstanding any of the provision of this Agreement, this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 1.6. AGREEMENT CONTROLS. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Development Program, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall take precedence, to the extent permitted by law, over the inconsistent provisions of the Development Program.

ARTICLE II

PROJECT COST ACCOUNT AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 2.1. CREATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City hereby confirms the creation and establishment of a segregated fund in the name of the City designated as the 'BBB Corporation Municipal Development Tax Increment Financing District Program Fund' (the 'Development Program Fund') pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of, the Development Program. The Development Program Fund shall consist of the Project Cost Account. The Project Cost Account shall consist of the City Subaccount and the Developer Subaccount.

SECTION 2.2. LIENS. The City shall not create any liens, encumbrances or other interests of any nature whatsoever, nor shall it hypothecate the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account of the Development Program Fund or any funds therein or revenues resulting from investment of funds therein, other than the interest of the Developer granted under this Agreement in and to the amounts on deposit in the Developer Subaccount, provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit creation of real and personal property tax liens on the Developer's property in accordance with, and entitled to the priority provided under, _________(ADDRESS) law.

SECTION 2.3. DEPOSITS INTO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND. The City shall deposit into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account within fifteen (15) days after the City's receipt thereof, an amount equal to the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues for the period to which the payment relates. All amounts deposited in or transferred to the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be paid to the Developer in accordance with Article III of this Agreement. All interest and earnings on the Retained Tax Increment Revenues prior to and after deposit thereof into the Project Cost Account shall be the sole property of the City and shall be free and clear of any interest of the Developer under this Agreement.

SECTION 2.4. MONIES HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise permitted in this Agreement, all monies required to be deposited with or paid into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to fund payments to Developer under the provisions hereof and the provisions of the Development Program, shall be held by the City, in trust, for the benefit of the Developer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. All funds in the City Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall be the sole and exclusive property of the City and shall not be subject in any way to the terms or provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

SECTION 3.1. CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PAYMENTS.

(a) The City shall retain and deposit, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts, whichever is later, in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account, the Developer Share of the Tax Increment in each year commencing with the City's Fiscal Year _________ and continuing thereafter through and including the Fiscal Year _________. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the assessed value of the Existing Facility is less than the Original Assessed Value, then the amount payable with respect to the Land Level Facility shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the Property Taxes that would be then payable on an amount equal to Original Assessed Value and the Property Taxes payable on the then assessed value of the Existing Facility.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the City agrees to pay Developer, within fifteen (15) days following each Tax Payment Date or the date payment is actually received by the City, whichever is later, the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues resulting from the Property Tax payments due on such Tax Payment Date and actually received by the City with respect to Property in the Districts.

(c) If, with respect to any Tax Payment Date, Developer fails to pay any portion of the Property Taxes assessed by the City, because of a valuation dispute or otherwise, the property taxes actually paid by Developer with respect to such Tax Payment Date shall, first, be applied to taxes due on account of Original Assessed Value and, second, shall constitute Retained Tax Increment Revenues.

(d) The Developer agrees that all payments made will be used and applied to either pay debt service on indebtedness incurred to finance 'Project Costs' as that term is defined under Act and described in the Development Program or used to pay directly, amortize or reimburse Developer for payment of, qualified Project Costs. The City shall be required to make payments under this Agreement only upon receipt of satisfactory documentation that the amounts are being paid for Project Costs pursuant to Section 1.4 hereof, which documentation shall be in the form of properly completed certificates, executed by the Developer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 3.1(a)-(b), the City shall not be obligated to make any payments to the Developer unless the Developer provides such documentation evidencing that Developer has incurred Project Costs after the date of this Agreement equal to or greater than $ _________$ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y)and $ _________ by _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) relating to construction and equipping of the Land Level Facility and/or the Existing Facility. Developer shall repay to City any payments made hereunder if Developer fails to meet its obligation set forth above.

(e) The Developer (and its successors and assigns, as owners of property in the District) shall pay to the City, when due, all Property Taxes and assessments with respect to property of the Developer in the AAA. If such Property Taxes and assessments are not paid when due, the City may withhold and suspend all payments under this Agreement until such Property Taxes and assessments and all interest thereon and other costs relating thereto are paid in full. In addition, if the Developer institutes any tax abatement proceeding with respect to any Property in the District, the City may withhold and suspend all payments of the Developer Share of the Tax Increment with respect to the items of Property subject to the abatement proceeding, and shall deposit the withheld amount into a separate interest bearing escrow account. Upon final action and completion of such abatement proceeding, the proper amount (based on the results of the abatement proceedings plus an allocable share of the interest accrued thereon) held in escrow account shall be paid to the Developer.

(f) Developer covenants and agrees that (i) in the event any part of the Property now or hereafter located in the District should be valued at less than its full value or is now exempt from payment of Property Tax for any reason or for any reason hereafter becomes exempt from payment of Property Tax, including, but not limited to, any portion of the Land Level Facility being located on submerged land or if any of the Property is now or hereafter leased by Developer from any person or entity including, without limitation, any submerged or intertidal lands lease from the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any lease from any private land owner or (ii) in the event that title to any property in the District is hereafter transferred to any entity exempt from the payment of Property Taxes, including, without limitation, the State of _________(ADDRESS) or any agency or authority thereof, or (iii) in the event that any submerged lands lease expires or is transferred to another party, then Developer, its successors and assigns, as owner, lessee or user of real estate in the District and as a covenant running with the land shall be obligated to pay to the City each year during and after the expiration or termination of this Agreement, an amount equal to (a) 100% of the Property Taxes that would be assessed by the City on such Property, as if and under the assumption that all such Property were fully taxable and owned in fee by Developer and not exempt from Property Taxes less (b) solely during the twenty-five (25) year term of this Agreement, the portion of the amounts described in the preceding clause (a) that would have been payable to the Developer, or its successors and assigns, under Section 3.1(a) if such Property were taxable. The covenants in this paragraph shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph 3.1(f) shall not apply to property taken by eminent domain or conveyed to any governmental entity under a bona fide threat of condemnation, except for such period of time, if any, as Developer, its successors or assigns, continues to operate any business on the Property following such condemnation or deed in lieu of condemnation.

(g) Developer agrees that for purposes of this Agreement and for purposes of the assessment of Property Tax, the following shall constitute personal property: (a) dry docks (but excluding landing grids consisting of the large cement blocks located under the dry dock area); (b) cranes; (c) rail systems for cranes and ships; (d) portable staging and welding equipment; (e) personnel lifts; (f) modular or mobile equipment and work stations; (g) support equipment; (h) outfit support terminals; (i) ship transfer systems; (j) process piping; (k) manufacturing process wiring; (l) fire suppression systems; (m) fender bumper systems; and (n) all property that is personal property under applicable law. When an issue arises as to whether an item is considered real or personal property, the determining factor is whether the item in question primarily supports the manufacturing process, in which case it shall be considered personal property, or supports a building or structure or constitutes an improvement to the land, in which case it shall be considered real property.

SECTION 3.2. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. In the event the City should fail to, or be unable to, make any of the payments required under the foregoing provisions of this Article III, the item or installment so unpaid shall continue as a limited obligation of the City, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, until the amount unpaid shall have been fully paid. Developer shall be entitled to initiate an action against the City to specifically enforce its obligations hereunder, including without limitation the city's obligation to establish and maintain the Development Program Fund, deposit all Retained Tax Increment Revenues into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established thereunder and make required payments to Developer.

SECTION 3.3. MANNER OF PAYMENTS. The payments provided for in this Article III shall be paid directly to the Developer in the manner provided hereinabove for its own use and benefit by check drawn on the City.

SECTION 3.4. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as required by applicable law, the obligations of the City to make the payments described in this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof shall be absolute and unconditional, and the City shall not suspend or discontinue any payment hereunder or terminate this Agreement for any cause, irrespective of any defense or any rights of setoff, recoupment or counterclaim it might otherwise have against the Developer, other than by reason of and to the extent provided in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City reserves the right to terminate this Agreement upon receipt of a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that this Agreement or the Development Program (or the designation of the Districts) adopted in connection herewith or any payment made thereunder or hereunder is or would be illegal or invalid or not properly authorized. Such termination shall not, however, affect the Developer's obligation to defend and indemnify the City, which obligations shall survive any such termination. In addition, the City may setoff any amount found by the court of competent jurisdiction to be due to the City from the Developer or from the owner of any property in the District.

The Developer agrees to defend, indemnify, pay, reimburse and hold the City, its councilors, officers, agents and employees, harmless from any and all claims, suits, liabilities, actions, proceedings and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys fees and expenses and accountant's fees and expenses, arising out of this Agreement, the Development Program or any claim of illegality or invalidity of this Agreement or the Development Program or the City's approval of the District, this Agreement or the Development Program or out of the City's preparation and participation in this Agreement or the Development Program.

SECTION 3.5. LIMITED OBLIGATION. The City's obligations under this Agreement, including the City's obligations of payment hereunder shall be limited obligations of the City payable solely from the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City and pledged therefor under this Agreement. The City's obligations hereunder shall not constitute a general debt or a general obligation or charge against or pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof, but shall be payable solely from such Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues actually paid by the Developer and/or other taxpayers with respect to Property in the Districts and actually received by the City. This Agreement shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the City, the State of _________(ADDRESS), or any other municipality or political subdivision to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment, excepting the pledge of the Developer Share of the Retained Tax Increment Revenues established under this Agreement.

SECTION 3.6. CALCULATION OF RETAINED TAX INCREMENT. The City and the Developer shall maintain records which are adequate to calculate the Retained Tax Increment, the Developer Share and the City Share and shall cooperate with each other in making such calculations. Annually, within 30 days of mailing of the City's tax bill, the City shall calculate and submit to Developer its calculations of the amount of Retained Tax Increment and the Developer Share and City Share thereof for that year. If the Developer does not object to such calculations within 30 days of receipt thereof, the calculations shall be final and binding on all parties. If there is a dispute as to the calculations and the parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be determined in the manner provided in Section 8.13 hereof.

SECTION 3.7. REVALUATION. In the event there is a City-wide revaluation of taxable property within the City, the Original Assessed Value shall be increased in proportion to the City-wide increase in property values resulting from such revaluation.

ARTICLE IV

PLEDGE AND SECURITY INTEREST

SECTION 4.1. PLEDGE OF PROJECT COST ACCOUNT. In consideration of this Agreement and other valuable consideration and for the purpose of securing payment of the amounts provided for hereunder to the Developer by the City, according to the terms and conditions contained herein, and in order to secure the performance and observance of all of the City's covenants and agreements contained herein, the City does hereby grant a security interest in and pledge to the Developer the Developer Subaccount and all sums of money and other securities and investments therein. This pledge and the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof shall not apply to any interest and earnings on the Project Cost Account, including the Developer Subaccount thereof, all of which shall be the absolute property of the City, free and clear of any interest of the Developer.

SECTION 4.2. PERFECTION OF INTEREST. The City shall cooperate with the Developer in causing appropriate financing statements and continuation statements naming the Developer as pledgee of all such amounts from time to time on deposit in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account to be duly filed and recorded in the appropriate state offices as required by and permitted under the provisions of the _________(ADDRESS) Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law as adopted in the State of _________(ADDRESS) and any other applicable jurisdiction, as from time to time amended, in order to perfect and maintain the security interests created hereunder. To the extent reasonably deemed necessary by the Developer, the City will at such time and from time to time as requested by Developer establish the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account Fund described in Section 2.3(b)(i) hereof as a segregated fund under the control of an escrow agent, trustee or other fiduciary so as to perfect Developer's interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City.

SECTION 4.3. FURTHER INSTRUMENTS. The City shall, upon the reasonable request of the Developer, from time to time execute and deliver such further instruments and take such further action as may be reasonable and as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that no such instruments or actions shall pledge the credit of the City or require any payment or expense by the City (unless paid by Developer) or discharge either party or change any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 4.4. NO DISPOSITION OF DEVELOPER  SUBACCOUNT. Except as permitted hereunder, the City shall not sell, lease, pledge, assign or otherwise dispose, encumber or hypothecate any interest in the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account and will promptly pay or cause to be discharged or make adequate provision to discharge any lien, charge or encumbrance on any part thereof not permitted hereby.

SECTION 4.5. ACCESS TO BOOKS AND RECORDS. All books, records and documents in the possession of the City relating to the District, the Development Program, the Agreement and the monies, revenues and receipts on deposit or required to be deposited into the Development Program Fund and the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the Developer, its agents and employees. All books, records and documents of the Developer reasonably necessary to the verification of Project Costs shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the City, its agents and employees, provided, however, that any information reasonably designated by Developer as proprietary shall be inspected in a manner so as to preserve the confidential nature of such information.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events shall constitute and be referred to in this Agreement as an 'Event of Default':

(a) Any failure by the City or the Developer to pay any amounts due hereunder when the same shall become due and payable;

(b) Any failure by the City to make deposits into the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account as and when due;

(c) Any failure by the City or the Developer to observe and perform in all material respects any covenant, condition, agreement or provision contained herein on the part of the City or Developer to be observed or performed, which failure is not cured within thirty (30) days following written notice thereof; provided, however, that this subsection (c) shall not be construed to include Developer's failure to pay property taxes for any reason as an Event of Default hereunder;

(d) If a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises of the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator of, any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of the City's or Developer's affairs shall have been entered against the City or the Developer, the City or the Developer shall have consented to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any such proceedings of or relating to the City or the Developer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, including without limitation the filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by the City or the Developer or the failure by the City or the Developer to have an involuntary petition in bankruptcy dismissed within a period of 90 consecutive days following its filing or in the event an order for release has been entered under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the City or the Developer.

SECTION 5.2. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT. Whenever any Event of Default described in Section 5.1 hereof shall have occurred and be continuing, the nondefaulting party may take any one or more of the following remedial steps following any applicable cure period:

(a) The nondefaulting party may take whatever action at law in at equity as may appear necessary or desirable to collect the amount then due and thereafter to become due, to specifically enforce the performance or observance of any obligations, agreements or covenants of the nondefaulting party under this Agreement and any documents, instruments and agreements contemplated hereby or to enforce any rights or remedies available hereunder or under applicable law; and

(b) The Developer shall also have the right to exercise any rights or remedies available to a secured party under the laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS).

SECTION 5.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to any party is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute. Delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Events of Default to insist upon the strict performance of any of the covenants and agreements herein set forth or to exercise any rights or remedies upon the occurrence of an Event of Default shall not impair any such right or power or be considered or taken as a waiver or relinquishment for the future of the right to insist upon and to enforce, from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient, by injunction or other appropriate legal or equitable remedy, strict compliance by the parties hereto with all of the covenants and conditions hereof, or of the rights to exercise any such rights or remedies, if such Events of Default be continued or repeated.

SECTION 5.4. AGREEMENT TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, in the event the City or the Developer should default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, and the nondefaulting party shall require and employ attorneys or incur other expenses or costs for the collection of payments due or to become due or for the enforcement of performance or observance of any obligation or agreement on the part of the City or the Developer herein contained, the defaulting party shall, on demand therefor, pay to the nondefaulting party the reasonable fees of such attorneys and such other reasonable costs and expenses so incurred by the Developer.

SECTION 5.5. TAX LAWS. Except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof, the parties acknowledge that all laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted with respect to taxation of property shall be applicable and that the City, by entering into this Agreement, is not excusing any non-payment of taxes by Developer. Without limiting the foregoing, the City and the Developer shall always be entitled to exercise all rights and remedies regarding assessment, collection and payment of taxes assessed on Developer's property.

ARTICLE VI

EFFECTIVE DATE, TERM AND TERMINATION

SECTION 6.1. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM. This Agreement shall become effective upon its execution and delivery by the parties hereto and shall remain in full force from the date hereof and shall expire upon the performance of all obligations on the part of the City and the Developer hereunder.

SECTION 6.2. CANCELLATION AND EXPIRATION OF TERM. At the termination or other expiration of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the City and the Developer shall each execute and deliver such documents and take or cause to be taken such actions as may be necessary to evidence the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

ASSIGNMENT AND PLEDGE OF DEVELOPER'S INTEREST

SECTION 7.1. CONSENT TO PLEDGE AND/OR ASSIGNMENT. The City hereby acknowledges that it is the intent of the Developer to pledge and assign its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing for the Project, although no obligation is hereby imposed on the Developer to make such assignment or pledge. Recognizing this intention, the City does hereby consent and agree to the pledge and assignment of all the Developer's right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and in, and to the payments to be made to Developer hereunder, to third parties as collateral or security for financing the Development Program, on one or more occasions during the term hereof.

SECTION 7.2. PLEDGE, ASSIGNMENT OR SECURITY INTEREST. The City hereby consents to the pledge, assignment or granting of a security interest by the Developer of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement as collateral for financing of the Project. The City agrees to execute and deliver any assignments, pledge assignments, consents or other confirmations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the City required by the prospective pledgee or assignee, including without limitation recognition of the pledgee or assignee as the holder of all right, title and interest herein and as the payee of amounts due and payable hereunder and any and all such other documentation as shall confirm to such pledge or assignee the position of such assignee or pledgee and the irrevocable and binding nature of this Agreement and provide to the pledgee or assignee such rights and/or remedies as the parties may reasonably deem necessary for the establishing, perfection and protection of its interest herein.

SECTION 7.3. ASSIGNMENT. Except to the extent provided in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2, the Developer shall not have the right to transfer and assign all or any portion of its rights in, to and under this Agreement, except to the owners of the Property in the District and this Agreement shall run with the land and bind and inure to the benefit of such owners, their successors and assigns.

ARTICLE XIII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1. SUCCESSORS. In the event of the dissolution of the City or the Developer, the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements set forth herein, by or on behalf of or for the benefit of such party shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns thereof time to time and any entity, officer, board, commission, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty of such party shall be transferred.

SECTION 8.2. PARTIES IN INTEREST. Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this Agreement expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the City and the Developer any right, remedy or claim under or by the reason of this Agreement, it being intended that this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the City and the Developer.

SECTION 8.3. SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be illegal and invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

SECTION 8.4. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS OF THE CITY. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the City contained herein shall be deemed to be a covenant, stipulation or obligation of any present or future elected or appointed official, officer, agent, servant or employee of the City in his individual capacity and neither the members of the City Council of the City nor any official, officer, employee or agent of the City shall be liable personally with respect to this Agreement or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason hereof.

SECTION 8.5. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Agreement.

SECTION 8.6. GOVERNING LAW. The laws of the State of _________(ADDRESS) shall govern the construction and enforcement of this Agreement.

SECTION 8.7. NOTICES. All notices, certificates, requests, requisitions or other communication by the City or the Developer pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given and shall be deemed given when mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

If to the City:

City Manager

Address: _________

If to the Developer:

BBB Corporation

Address: _________

Either of the parties may, by notice given to the other, designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent hereunder.

SECTION 8.8. AMENDMENTS. This Agreement may be amended only with the concurring written consent of both of the parties hereto.

SECTION 8.9. NET AGREEMENT. Subject only to the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.5 and 5.2 hereof, this Agreement shall be deemed and construed to be a 'net agreement,' and the City shall pay absolutely net during the term hereof all payments required hereunder, free of any deductions, and without abatement, deductions or setoffs.

SECTION 8.10. BENEFIT OF ASSIGNEES OR PLEDGEES. The City agrees that this Agreement is executed in part to assist the Developer in obtaining financing for the Project and accordingly all covenants and agreements on the part of the City as to the amounts payable hereunder are hereby declared to be for the benefit of any such assignee or pledgee from time to time of the Developer's right, title and interest herein.

SECTION 8.11. INTEGRATION. This Agreement completely and fully supersedes all other prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, both written and oral, between the City and the Developer relating to the specific subject matter of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 8.12. DISPUTES. The Developer and the City waive any right which either may have to contest, and shall not take any action to challenge, the other's authority to enter into, perform or enforce the Agreement or to carry out the Development Program or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the District or the Development Program. Subject to the provisions of Sections 1.5, 3.4 and 5.4 hereof, the City and the Developer shall each utilize their respective best efforts to uphold the District, the Development Program, this Agreement and the City's authority to enter into this Agreement and the validity and enforceability of the Districts, the Development Program and this Agreement, including without limitation opposing, to the extent permitted by law, any litigation or proceeding challenging such authority, validity or enforceability. The City and the Developer both covenant and agree that (except as provided in Section 3.1 hereof) the assumptions, analyses and results set forth in this Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party or be used, in any way, by either party in either presenting evidence or making argument in any dispute which may arise in connection with valuation of the Existing Property or the Land Level Facility. SECTION 8.13. ARBITRATION. Any dispute arising under this Agreement or under the Development Program shall be resolved by arbitration. The parties shall use best efforts to agree on an arbitrator and rules of arbitration. If agreement is not reached within forty-five (45) days, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Developer have caused this Agreement to be executed in their respective corporate names and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested by the duly authorized officers, all as of the date first above written.

WITNESS: AAA

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

_____________

WITNESS: BBB CORPORATION

/s/ _________ By: /s/ _________

EXHIBIT A

REQUEST FOR PAYMENT

The undersigned (the 'Developer') does hereby request payment in the amount of $ _________ from the AAA out of the Developer Subaccount of the Project Cost Account established under the Development Program of The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #1 and The BBB Municipal Development District and Tax Increment Financing District #2 and does hereby certify to the AAA that the amount requested will be used to pay Project Costs as that term is defined in Chapter 207 of Title 30-A of the _________(ADDRESS) Revised Statutes, as follows: [check applicable provisions]

Direct payment of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________; and/or

Reimbursement to the Developer for Project Costs previously incurred,in the amount of $ _________.

There are attached hereto invoices showing the incurring by the undersigned of Project Costs in the amount of $ _________. None of these invoices have been the subject of a previous request for payment from the Project Cost Account.

The Developer further certifies that all of such Project Costs constitute Project Costs as defined in the Credit Enhancement Agreement, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) between the AAA and the undersigned, and that the Developer has complied with all terms, conditions and covenants of such Agreement and that no default or event of default exists under said Agreement.

Dated:___________________

CCC CORPORATION:_________

By:______________________

Its:_____________________

Duly Authorized

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Collective Bargaining Agreement


AAA and LOCAL 8-149 OIL, CHEMICAL, and ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION EFFECTIVE - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) EXPIRES - _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) AAA, INC.and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 AFL-CIO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. UNION RECOGNITION
ARTICLE II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE III. UNION ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE IV. HOURS
ARTICLE V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
ARTICLE VI. SENIORITY
ARTICLE VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
ARTICLE VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
ARTICLE IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
ARTICLE X. BEREAVEMENT
ARTICLE XI. JURY DUTY
ARTICLE XII. GENERAL
ARTICLE XIII. GRIEVANCES
ARTICLE XIV. VACATIONS
ARTICLE XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
ARTICLE XVI. WAGE INCREASES
ARTICLE XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
ARTICLE XVIII. CHECKOFF
ARTICLE XIX. RELOCATION
ARTICLE XX. UNION SECURITY
ARTICLE XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
ARTICLE XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
ARTICLE XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
ARTICLE XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
ARTICLE XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
ARTICLE XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
ARTICLE XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
ARTICLE XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
ARTICLE XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
ARTICLE XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
ARTICLE XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
ARTICLE XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
ARTICLE XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
ARTICLE XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made this _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), effective as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), by and between AAA, INC., for its facilities at _________(address) and _________(address) and _________(address) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 'Employer') and BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the 'Union').
WHEREAS, both parties having accepted the principle of collective bargaining as a means of establishing wages, hours and working conditions of the covered employees and being desirous of continuing to do so for the purpose of fostering relations of mutual interest, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of the parties to promote sound and peaceful labor relations,
WITNESSETH:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties do hereby agree as follows:
I. UNION RECOGNITION
1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole collective bargaining agent for purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for all its full-time and regular part- time employees employed by the Company at its facilities presently located at _________(address), _________(address) and _________(address); excluding office clerical employees, professional employees, maintenance trade and engineering employees, laboratory employees, Food Service employees, Groundskeeping employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.
However, it is agreed that all new hires for helper and any additional craftsman beyond the current three (3) slots in plant maintenance will be represented by the Union.
II. MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
1. The Company has, retains and shall possess and exercise all rights and functions, powers, privileges and authority not specifically and expressly contracted away or limited by the terms of this Agreement.
2. As illustrative of the rights the Company possesses and retains, but in no way to be construed as a limitation, the Company shall have the exclusive right to: manage all of the Company's operations and its business affairs; direct the work force; determine production methods and procedures; assign work, evaluate jobs and the performance of jobs for pay purposes and to reevaluate them; decide the methods, means and processes of manufacture, type of machinery and equipment to be used, the number and classifications of employees to be used in the various aspects of the Company's operations or for particular assignments, types and quantity of business to be scheduled for production, quality of material, and the standards of efficiency and quality of workmanship required; decide selling prices and products, methods of selling and distributing products; determine the location of the business and to relocate any part or all of the Company's operations; discontinue operations in whole or in part; allocate and transfer production; introduce new or improved methods or facilities, or to change existing manufacturing practices, decide methods and facilities, maintain order and efficiency; the right to hire, promote, demote, transfer, suspend, discharge, or otherwise discipline employees; determine the size and composition of the work force and relieve employees from duty because of lack of work or other reasons; determine the hours of work and schedule hours and determine overtime; establish, adjust and revise job classifications, hourly rates, establish rules pertaining to the operation of the plant and discipline employees for violation of such rules; determine an employee's qualifications to perform work in any particular position and to reassess and upgrade qualification standards for employees, including incumbents, in particular positions whenever and to whatever extent deemed by the Company to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety; perform scientific and engineering studies; to contract out or subcontract work; establish or discontinue extra shifts, except as expressly amended or changed as hereinafter set out; to enforce procedures designed to ensure that employees do not report for work or perform work under the influence of drugs, alcohol or other substances that may or do impair or reduce mental acuity, motor coordination, and/or other performance capabilities that could affect regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, or safety; to make and implement unilaterally any decisions that in the opinion of management are required to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, and the safe operation of Company facilities; and to implement measures deemed necessary by Company management to maximize productivity and efficiency. The enumeration of specific rights in this Section shall not be construed as supporting a negative implication that other rights of the Company have been waived or compromised in any way. Nor shall the enumeration of such rights be construed as expanding or contracting in any way the Union's right, to the extent otherwise secured by applicable precedents under the National Labor Relations Act as amended, to demand that the Company engage in collective bargaining over the effects of the exercise of such rights on the wages, terms and conditions of employment and employment security of employees covered by this Agreement.
3. Furthermore, the Company retains the right to take whatever steps it deems necessary to meet and comply with all Federal, state or local regulations including but not limited to those promulgated by DEA, FDA and any regulatory agency.
4. Within the limits prescribed in Article XII,Section 4 of this Agreement, Management has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform unit work.
5. With respect to any rights heretofore exercised by or inherent in the Company and not expressly limited by the terms of this Agreement, and with respect to any rights retained by or conferred upon the Company in the terms of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to exercise such rights, or the exercise of such rights by the Company in a particular manner, shall not be construed to be a waiver of or limitation on any such right, a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right, or a waiver of or limitation on the right to exercise any such right in a different manner. Nor shall enumeration of rights reserved to the Company in this Agreement be construed as, or considered as evidence of, an implied limitation on or preclusion of any Company rights not so enumerated.
III. UNION ACTIVITIES
1. There shall be no grievance investigated, presented,discussed, processed or handled during working hours without the Vice President Human Resources or the Manager Human Resources first being notified and her permission to do so obtained, nor shall the investigation, presentation, discussion, processing or handling of grievances interfere in any way with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. In the case of Departmental Stewards, however, this Section shall be deemed to have been complied with in cases where such Stewards find it necessary to be excused from their regular work responsibilities for brief periods of time for such purposes if notice is provided and permission obtained in advance from the Steward's Plant Manager.
2. An authorized agent of the Union shall be permitted to visit the plant during working hours, after first notifying the Vice President Human Resources or her designee, for the purpose of investigating and settling grievances and insuring the proper administration of the contract; provided, however, that said representative shall conduct his business in such manner so as not to interfere with the normal and efficient conduct of the Company's operations. The Union shall keep the Company currently advised, in writing, of the officer or representative of the Union who is authorized to deal with the Company, and no one shall be deemed such a representative unless he is so designated by the Union to the Company.
IV. HOURS
1. The standard work week shall be five consecutive days, forty hours per week; eight hours per day, from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 p.m. the following Sunday, exclusive of lunch. The standard work day shall consist of eight and one- half (8-1/2) consecutive hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. However, the Company retains sole and unrestricted discretion to change work schedules for employees in any part or all of its operations to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Union and employees affected by such a change will be provided notice at least two weeks in advance of implementation of the change. Shifts may be established or discontinued in the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Employer on notice to the Union and the affected employees of thirty calendar days whenever reasonably practicable, but in any event not less than fourteen calendar days. Whenever a shift change is implemented for less than all of the employees in a department, the Company shall first seek to obtain enough employees to staff the new shift by asking for volunteers from among the employees in the department. In the event there are more volunteers than openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. In the event an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new shift or go onto layoff status.
The Employer may implement a Tuesday through Saturday workweek or Wednesday through Sunday workweek provided the following criteria are met:
(a) Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks must work a five consecutive day week.
(b) The Company shall first seek to obtain employees for such workweeks by asking for volunteers. If more volunteers come forward than there are openings, employees shall be selected on the basis of their seniority. If an insufficient number of volunteers come forth, the Company may have the work done by nonbargaining unit employees for up to two months, hire for such positions from outside the bargaining unit, and/or require additional employees, in reverse order of seniority, to either work the new workweek or go onto layoff status.
(c) Those employees hired for the Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweek shall have a right to bid into openings occurring less than one hundred and eighty days after their initial hire date the Monday through Friday workweek, except as otherwise provided in Article V, Section 7.
(d) The Employer agrees to preserve a three day weekend during holiday weeks.
Employees assigned to work Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday workweeks pursuant to the terms of this Section and who by virtue of such assignment work on Saturday or Sunday, shall receive premium pay in the amount of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for each hour worked on such days. Except as provided in Article XXIV, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating the Company to provide any minimum hours of work per day, per week, per month or per year.
2. The Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to establish a ten hours per day shift, exclusive of the thirty minute unpaid lunch period, at the straight-time wage rate. For employees assigned to work such a shift, except as otherwise provided below, forty hours per week shall constitute a week's work. If a ten hour work day as hereinbefore described is implemented, the Employer shall schedule employees assigned to work such shifts in such a manner as to make all straight-time work days after the first one in each work week follow each other consecutively. The Employer shall have the right to schedule such four day work weeks to begin on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the same manner and subject to the same conditions (except for the five consecutive day week requirement) as would apply under Section 1 of this Article to the assignment of employees to work five day work weeks beginning on those days. The Employer shall also have the option to schedule two crews to work a ten hour work days in such a manner as to provide employee coverage in the department on each of the seven days of the workweek, provided however that in such event employees in each crew shall be scheduled to work eight consecutive days, with the first and last of the eight days being on Thursday and with both crews overlapping for the full ten hour shift on Thursday. The Employer will provide notice to the Union and affected employees at least two weeks before commencement of any of the special shifts provided for in this Section. Employees working ten-hour days shall be entitled to an additional rest period of fifteen minutes after working eight hours. Employees who are assigned to work special shifts pursuant to this Section shall be entitled to take the Holidays specified in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement off without loss of pay or, if required to work on a Holiday, shall be compensated at a rate equal to two and one-half times the rate they would have been paid had the work been performed on a normal workday. Employees assigned to work special shifts under this Section whose workweek does not encompass a Holiday shall receive an additional eight hours straight-time pay for that workweek. Employees scheduled to work hours on Saturday or Sunday pursuant to this Section shall be paid a premium of _________ cents ($ _________) per hour for all such weekend hours worked.
3. OVERTIME: Employees shall be paid overtime premium pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any one day (except as otherwise provided above in Section 2 of this Article), or forty paid hours in any one work week and for any time worked on scheduled holidays enumerated in Article XV. Employees who fail to work any portion of the straight time work for which they are scheduled in a given work week will not be entitled to premium pay for overtime in that week, except to the extent that their total hours worked in that week exceed forty hours, unless the employee's failure to work such straight time is due to serious illness or serious injury, or the employee's being on jury duty, vacation, paid sick leave, or bereavement leave; and Saturday and Sunday overtime shall be paid on the same basis. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, overtime hours worked on Sundays shall be compensated at a rate equal to twice the employee's base wage rate. Only time actually paid shall be included in computing overtime. Any time worked when once included in computing overtime under any applicable provision of this Agreement shall not thereafter be included in computing overtime under any other applicable provisions hereof. In no event, shall there be any duplication or pyramiding of any overtime or premium pay, whether for Sundays, holidays or overtime purposes or otherwise.
The Company shall have discretion to determine which job classification(s) will be needed to perform available overtime work. Overtime shall first be offered to qualified employees within the job classification within the department in which the overtime is available. Such opportunities shall be equally divided among the employees in the department in the same job classification and assigned to work in the same building. For purposes of equalization, an opportunity offered and refused shall be counted as overtime worked. If an insufficient number of employees within the department and currently assigned to the classification that the Company has designated to work overtime are available for such work, the Company may fill the overtime with qualified volunteers from outside the department on the basis of seniority (in which case the Company shall offer the overtime to employees then assigned to work in the classification that the Company has designated to work the overtime and working in the location (Northvale or Pomona) where the overtime is to be worked, then to employees assigned to work in such classification at any other Company facilities covered by this Agreement, and then to any other qualified employees assigned to work at any such facilities), and/or by drafting employees from within the building and department in reverse order of seniority. In any situations in which overtime work is of such a nature as to require the employee performing it to have any special skills or experience, the Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to assign overtime work to the employee or employees who, in the Company's judgment, is or are best suited to carry out the assignment competently, efficiently and safely. To the extent overtime assignments do not, in the judgement of the Company, require employees of special skill and/or experience, however, the Company shall be required to distribute such assignments evenly among employees in the department; and any time worked by an employee in an overtime assignment made on the basis of special skills or experience shall be credited to that employee for overtime equalization purposes, as would any other overtime worked. The Union shall be informed of all special overtime assignments made on the basis of special skills or experience on at least a weekly basis. It is understood that the Company shall not be required to create unnecessary overtime for any purpose.
4. When an employee is requested by the Company to work outside of or beyond his regular hours, he shall be expected to do so, unless the Company determines that extraordinary hardship would result by requiring the employee to work such an overtime assignment. However, under no circumstances will notice for mandatory overtime be given less than four hours before such overtime would begin. No employee shall be required to work more than fourteen hours in any workday or more than fifty-six hours in any workweek, except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of this Article. In the event an employee is required to work an overtime assignment and has difficulty with working the assignment due to a schedule conflict, he shall not be required to work the overtime if he is able to find a qualified volunteer to take his place who is acceptable to the supervisor scheduling the overtime. In such cases, the employee shall be charged with having worked the overtime for the purposes of overtime distribution; and the volunteer who works the overtime shall not be so charged.
5. HOLIDAY WORK: The Company shall, unless extraordinary hardship would result, give seven days' notice of overtime work scheduled on a holiday or during a holiday weekend (i.e., a weekend preceded or followed by a day designated as a holiday in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement). The Company shall have the right to open the plant for business on holidays and to expect employees to work on such days. Except as otherwise provided above in Section 3 of this Article, work performed by employees on holidays shall be considered as premium work, and such work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
6. Hours and pay representing holiday pay, and vacation pay and all other hours of pay representing non-working time will be included in figuring overtime for the week and in figuring straight time average hourly rates.
7. REST PERIODS AND LUNCH PERIODS: The Company shall provide employees with a one-half hour unpaid lunch period and two rest periods of fifteen minutes duration. It is understood and agreed that the scheduling of such periods remains exclusively vested in the Company, and the taking of such periods shall in no way interfere with the normal and efficient operations of the plant.
8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Employer has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine when it is necessary to suspend or shut down some part or all of its operations because of an Act of God, any circumstances beyond the Employer's control, or any emergency situation that could compromise product quality or integrity or endanger the life and safety of an employee or because of regulatory compliance considerations. In such cases, employees will be compensated in accordance with the terms of Article XXIV of this Agreement. In the case of such a suspension or shut-down in which the Employer requests affected employees to wait in a designated area available for work, the waiting time shall be considered time worked. If the plant is closed under the circumstances specified in this Section, and employees are scheduled to work the following Saturday, said Saturday work shall be paid for at time and one-half.
9. The provisions of this Article are intended solely to provide a basis for determining the number of hours of work for which an employee shall be entitled to be paid at overtime rates, and shall not be construed as a guarantee to such employee of any specified number of hours of work either per day or per week, or as limiting the right of the Company to fix the number of hours of work (including overtime) either per day or per week for such employee.
10. CHECK CASHING: The Employer will grant each employee an additional fifteen minutes to their lunch period on check cashing day.
V. PROBATIONARY PERIOD
1. The Company has the right to employ such new employees as it deems necessary and qualified to do the work available and may hire such persons from any source. The Company also retains the right to refuse to employ any such person in its discretion.
2. Generally, there shall be a six month probationary period for new employees, which may be extended for up to an additional one month by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union. New employees hired into the Porter or Supplier/Material Handler classifications, however, shall be required to complete a probationary period of ninety days, which may be extended by up to an additional thirty days by mutual agreement between the Company and the Union.
3. The computation of the probationary period shall not include any work time absent from the job for any reason, and said probationary period will automatically be extended for all such work time lost.
4. All probationary period employees may be laid off,disciplined, discharged or otherwise terminated during their probationary period for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, and such layoff, discipline, discharge or termination shall not be subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation on this provision in any way.
5. After completion of their probationary period,employees shall be deemed to be regular employees, and their seniority shall revert to the date of employment.
6. Nothing in this provision shall be considered a restriction or limitation upon the training periods established by the Company for the various job operations or on providing training periods of greater duration than the probationary period established herein. Such employees shall be notified of the length of training period.
VI. SENIORITY
1. Seniority is defined as the total length of continuous service with the Company.
2. Each Employee shall accumulate seniority rights after the probationary period provided in ARTICLE V has been successfully completed, and such seniority shall date from the time of the employee's most recent date of hire.
3. LAYOFF AND RECALL: The Company shall have the right to determine when a layoff is necessary, including the right to determine the number of employees to be laid off, the department in which the layoff will occur, and the duration of such layoffs. In the event a layoff becomes necessary, employees will be laid off in accordance with their seniority. However, employees to be laid off shall be permitted to bump employees with less seniority in an equivalent or lower rated, unprotected job, where the Company determines the bumping employee is qualified and able to perform the available work, and where the Company determines in its sole and unrestricted discretion that displacement of the incumbent by the bumping employee will not materially affect the Company's ability to ensure full and undiminished compliance with regulatory obligations and product quality and integrity. The Company shall have the right to exempt from bumping up to fifty percent of the positions in each classification in each department, except for Porter and Packer positions. Employees exercising bumping rights pursuant to this Section shall serve a probationary period of six work weeks in the position into which they have bumped, during which period the Company shall have the right to determine that continuation of the employee in the position is not consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In the event of such a determination, the employee bumped out of the position shall be recalled and the employee who bumped into the position may, in the discretion of the Company, either be laid off or transferred to another position. In no event shall an employee be permitted to bump upward. An employee shall be permitted to exercise bumping rights under this Section only one time in connection with any layoff affecting the employee (unless the employee is bumped by a more senior employee from a position into which he has bumped as a consequence of the same layoff, in which case the employee may exercise any additional bumping rights he has one additional time); and the employee's decision as to whether and how to exercise any bumping rights available to him, once made and communicated to the Company, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give forty- eight hours advance notice of layoff or equivalent pay in lieu of notice. If more than twenty employees are laid off in any period of twenty-one days or less, employees who are involuntarily put out of work by the layoff(s) shall be given five working days notice of their layoff, provided that the Employer has determined at the time of the layoff that the employee is expected to remain on layoff status for a period of more than thirty calendar days. If an employee is otherwise entitled to five days notice pursuant to this Section and one or more paid holidays provided for in Article XV, Section 2 of this Agreement falls within the notice period, such paid holiday(s) shall be deemed a working day(s) for purposes of the notice requirement. The Employer has the option to provide to any portion of or all employees involuntarily put out of work as a result of a layoff pay in lieu of any notice required by this Section. The Employer shall continue to make contributions for medical coverage of employees put out of work by a layoff for ninety days after the layoff. Recall will be in the reverse order of layoff, and employees recalled from a layoff to the classification that they occupied prior to the layoff shall be compensated for hours worked at the rate in effect for them in the classification immediately prior to the layoff. Employees occupying Porter positions on the effective date of this Agreement shall, during the term of this Agreement and so long as they continue to occupy such positions, be protected from layoff resulting from a decision of the Company to subcontract the Porter work that would otherwise be done by them.
4. TRANSFERS: The Company shall have the right to transfer employees on a temporary basis. The Company shall provide forty-eight hours advance notice of all transfers between shifts. With respect to transfers involving a relocation of greater than five miles from an employee's regular station, the Company must provide twenty-four hours notice. A temporary transfer shall be defined as a transfer of an employee at the direction of the Company that is intended by the Company at the time it is made to continue for no more than sixty, in the case of an employee's transfer to a different shift and/or to a different location (i.e., Pomona or Northvale), or in the case of an employee's temporary reassignment to a different job on the same shift and in the same location as his regular assignment, for no more than ninety consecutive calendar days. Provided, however, the Company shall have the right to extend any temporary transfer for up to an additional sixty days if the Company and the Union mutually agree. The Union shall, however, not refuse to agree to any extension of a temporary transfer in any case in which failure to extend the transfer would result in a substantial disruption of production or compromise in any way the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance. No employee shall suffer a reduction of pay as the result of temporary transfer, except that employees who are temporarily transferred between shifts to facilitate the exercise of bumping rights in the wake of a layoff shall not be entitled to continue receiving any shift differential applicable to the shift from which they transferred during the period of the temporary transfer. Employees transferred to a higher rate job shall receive that rate for all time spent in that job. All transfers shall be at the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion and may be without regard to seniority. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall have the right, on the basis of its sole and unrestricted discretion, to move the physical location of any part of its operations to another situs. Packers selected for temporary transfers to the Cephalexin area at the Company's Pomona, New York facility shall be selected in reverse order of seniority.
5. Seniority rights and employment shall be terminated if an employee:
(a) Is discharged for cause.
(b) Voluntarily quits.
(c) Has less than two years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of six consecutive calendar months or more.
(d) Has two to five years of seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than twelve consecutive calendar months.
(e) Has more than five years seniority and is laid off on or after the effective date of this Agreement for a period of more than eighteen consecutive calendar months.
(f) Fails to return to work within five calendar days after recall from layoff.
(g) Fails to return to work immediately after the expiration of a leave of absence.
(h) Accepts other employment while on a leave of absence, or misrepresents the purpose for which a leave of absence was granted.
(i) Transfers out of the bargaining unit.
(j) Absent for three days without notifying the Company unless the employee can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond his control.
(k) Retires.
(l) Accepts severance pay provided by the Company pursuant to Article XXXIII of this Agreement.
6. In order to insure the proper administration of this Article, the Company agrees to submit an up-to-date seniority list to the Union and the Chief Steward four times a year on a quarterly basis. The Company also agrees to post the list in the plant.
7. For purposes of any layoff pursuant to Section 3 of this Article, the Chief Steward shall be deemed senior to all other employees in the bargaining unit.
VII. DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE
1. The Company shall have the right at any time to discharge or discipline any employee for good cause. No disciplinary action may be taken, however, unless the employee is provided notice of the disciplinary action within ten work days after the Company learns of the conduct on which the disciplinary action is based.
2. In the event of discharge or other disciplinary action taken against a non-probationary employee, the Company will promptly furnish the affected employee with a written statement specifying the reason for the discharge or other disciplinary action. Such action on the part of the Company shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure specified in Article XIII of this Agreement (beginning with Step 3 of Section 3 thereof), provided that a grievance is filed in writing with the Company within ten work days of receipt by the employee of the written statement specifying the reason for discharge or other disciplinary action. Failure to file such grievance within ten work days shall bar its consideration under any provisions of this Agreement.
3. A disciplinary memorandum shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining eligibility for job bids or the appropriate level of discipline for multiple violations in the same category under the Company's progressive discipline policy more than twelve months after the issuance of the memorandum.
4. The Department Steward, if available, shall be invited to attend any meeting in which an employee in the Steward's department is to be informed of any decision to discipline or discharge the employee.
VIII. UNION BULLETIN BOARDS
The Union shall have the exclusive use of one bulletin board to be provided by the Company, upon which the Union may post notices of the following types:
(a) Notices of Union elections involving the Company's employees.
(b) Notices of the results of such elections.
(c) Notices of Union appointments affecting the Company's employees.
(d) Notices of meetings and activities pertaining to the Company's employees; and
(e) Job vacancies and bids.
The Union shall not post Union materials on Company premises other than on the designated Union bulletin boards.
IX. LEAVES OF ABSENCE
1. For the purpose of this Agreement, a leave of absence is defined as a limited and specified period of time officially granted to an employee by the Company to absent himself from his job duties for sick leave, family leave, or personal leave as hereinafter defined, which time off shall be taken without pay and subject to all conditions herein.
2. MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: A leave of absence for reasons of maternity shall be granted employees upon certification from a doctor that the employee is unable to perform her regular job functions, and said leave shall continue in effect until such time that a certification from a doctor is presented stating the employee is physically able to perform the regular functions of her job. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve month period shall be entitled to a personal leave of absence of up to sixmonths to care for his or her newborn baby or newly adopted infant, after completion of any prebirth medical disability leave (in the case of an employee who is the child's mother).
3. SICK LEAVE OF ABSENCE: An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months and who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months may be granted, upon timely application, a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months if the employee suffers from a serious health condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any period of leave pursuant to this Section be supported by certification issued by a duly licensed health care provider which shall state, at a minimum: (a) the date on which the serious health condition commenced; (b) the probable duration of the condition; and the medical facts within the provider's knowledge regarding the condition. The Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion and at its own expense, require that the employee obtain an opinion regarding the serious health condition from a licensed health care provider designated or approved by the Company. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his or her leave shall be considered to have abandoned his or her employment unless the Company receives a certificate from a licensed health care provider, prior to expiration of such leave, that the employee is still unable to perform his/her regular job functions.
4. PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE: Upon written application from an employee for a personal leave of absence, the Company, in its exclusive discretion, may grant a written leave of absence without pay where good cause is shown, for a maximum period of six months. An employee who has been employed by the Company for at least twelve months, who has worked at least one thousand hours during the immediately preceding twelve months, and whose parent, spouse or child is suffering from a serious health condition shall be entitled to unpaid leave, if timely requested, of up to twelve weeks in any twelve month period to care for such parent, spouse or child. Permission for leave requested pursuant to this Section shall not be unreasonably withheld. No employee has the absolute right to return to work prior to the expiration of his leave unless he notifies the Company, in writing, at least five working days prior to the intended date for return to work; and the Company, in its sole discretion, determines that the employee's early return as proposed will best serve the Company's overall interest in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The leave of absence for personal reasons may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties. An employee who fails to report to work immediately on the date set for the expiration of his leave shall be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless a reasonable excuse is given as determined by the Company.
5. The employee who returns from an authorized leave of absence and is capable of properly and adequately performing his job without significant additional training, will be reinstated in the job he held at the time his leave commenced if that position is vacant and the Company's production needs are such as to make filling the position at that time desirable. If a returning employee's prior position is not vacant or filling the position at that time is deemed by the Company to be not desirable, he will be allowed to exercise 'bumping' rights unless the Company determines that the employee's exercise of such rights would significantly impair the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. In such case, the employee shall be placed on layoff status until such time as his prior position becomes vacant and production needs make filling the position desirable, or the Company determines that the employee's exercise of 'bumping rights' will not significantly impair the aforementioned interests.
6. An employee who accepts employment elsewhere during any leave of absence taken pursuant to the terms of this Article will be considered as having voluntarily quit, unless previously authorized.
7. Employees will accumulate seniority while on an approved leave of absence pursuant to this Article. Employees on leave granted pursuant to this Article will not, however, receive credit as time worked for purposes of accrual of or entitlement to any benefits except as otherwise provided in Article XV, Section 1(a) and Article XVII, Section 3.
8. Any leave requested and taken by an employee pursuant to the terms of this Article shall be charged against the employee's eligibility for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to the extent consistent with the terms of said Act.
X. BEREAVEMENT
1. When death occurs in an employee's immediate family, which shall mean father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter, the employee shall be entitled, on notification to the Company, to take the five work days immediately following the employee's learning of such death with pay for bereavement leave. In the case of the death of the brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren or grandparents of an employee who has completed his probationary period, the employee on request will be excused for three consecutive working days with pay to grieve. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its consent to reasonable extensions on bereavement leave as circumstances warrant, but employees to whom such extensions are granted shall not be entitled to pay during the period of such extended leave.
2. Reasonable evidence of the death and relationship may be required by the Company supporting the claim for such time off from work.
XI. JURY DUTY
Full-time employees who are called for jury duty shall be granted the necessary time off for such purpose. The Company will pay the employee the greater of the employee's daily wages (to be computed on the same basis as holiday pay) or _________ dollars ($ _________) per day for the first three days of jury service. In the case of any employee required to serve on jury duty for more than three days, the Company will pay such employee for such additional service the difference, if any, between the employee's daily earnings (to be computed the same as holiday pay) and the monies paid to such employee by the authorized governmental agency, provided that such additional jury duty is not the result of a voluntary act by the employee. At the request of the Company, the employee shall present evidence of jury duty and receipt of compensation. The employee must notify the plant manager immediately upon receipt of summons for jury service in order to qualify for jury duty leave.
XII. GENERAL
1. The Company and the Union agree that they will not discriminate against an employee by reason of race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, national origin, membership or non-membership in the Union.
2. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as constituting an agreement that any work is or may become the exclusive right of any employee or classification of employees. The Company retains the sole and unrestricted discretion to direct employees, on a temporary basis, to perform work not within the job description of the position that they normally occupy whenever the Company determines that the interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency or safety will best be served by doing so. This clause shall not contravene the seniority and overtime provisions.
3. All provisions of this Agreement are assumed to be in conformity with the applicable laws of the States of New Jersey and New York and the United States. If any provisions are later proven to be contrary to any applicable law existing at this time or subsequently enacted, such provision shall then be considered void, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect on the remaining provisions of the Agreement.
4. The Company has the right to use supervisors and other non-bargaining unit personnel to perform bargaining unit work to whatever extent and for whatever duration management deems best serves the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing safety. Supervisors also may, in the interests of efficiency and orderly production, fill in or work on a particular job as dictated by the necessities of the operation. However, if an employee within the bargaining unit leaves the employ of the Company, he will not be replaced with a supervisory employee provided the position is still available. Likewise, if there are overtime opportunities, supervisory employees shall not replace bargaining unit employees; but this proscription shall not preclude qualified supervisors from doing up to two hours of unit work if there are no qualified bargaining unit employees in the plant and available to do the work at the time. Some examples of supervisors working are:
(a) Emergencies occurring during scheduled working days when an operation is not fully manned.
(b) Instructing or training of employees, including self- training.
(c) Performing experimental work involving new products, new equipment, new methods or new materials.
(d) Making minor adjustments and set up.
(e) Providing for the continuance of the work flow.
(f) Product validation or other nonproduction scientific work.
It is agreed that the Company shall not exercise its rights under this Section in such a way as to reduce systematically the number of bargaining unit positions.
5. The Company shall be responsible for instituting formal training procedures in all job classifications. Training shall be performed by such personnel as the Company deems, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, best suited to effective and efficient performance of the training function. Employees assigned to perform such training functions shall be compensated at a rate one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) above their normal rate during the period of such assignment. A training guide shall be developed covering the skills and responsibilities which employees in each type of work shall be taught. Employees may be directed to participate in cross-training exercises to ensure the availability of adequate personnel with the appropriate skill mix to deal with emergency or peak load situations, or to best serve the Company's overall interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The determination of the departments in which cross-training will be done and the number of employees in such departments to be given cross-training is a matter committed to the sole and unrestricted discretion of the Company. If less than all employees in a job classification within a department are to be assigned to participate in cross-training exercises, employees shall be selected for such exercises on the basis of seniority. Employees temporarily assigned to positions, other than the ones they normally occupy, for cross-training purposes shall not be deemed to have transferred into such positions. The Company will inform the Union at least two weeks prior to implementation of its plans, and any modifications thereof, for cross-training in any department with bargaining unit employees who will be involved in the cross-training program. All employees who participate in training, whether as trainers or trainees, shall be required to certify on documentation provided by the Company that such training has been completed. However, it is understood that an employee's signature as required by the preceding sentence does not necessarily signify that the employee certifies or believes that the content of the training was sufficient to qualify the employee receiving the training to perform work of the sort that was the subject of the training.
6. MANAGEMENT TRAINEES: Whereas it is the expressed intent of the Company to train, educate and familiarize supervisors and managers with the Company's total operation, including each phase of the operation, department by department, the Company shall have the right to have management trainees work on any or all jobs, including production jobs included in the bargaining unit, with the following limitations:
(a) Management trainees shall not be included in the bargaining unit and shall not be required to join the Union.
(b) Management trainees shall not exceed fifteen percent or ten employees, whichever is the lesser, of the total number of bargaining unit employees at any given time (i.e., if there are forty bargaining unit employees, there shall not be more than six management trainees). The Company will notify the Union of its decision to employ management trainees pursuant to this Section on or before the commencement date of the employment of any such employees.
(c) A management trainee shall not perform bargaining unit work for a period in excess of fifteen months on an over-all basis, and not more than four consecutive months in any one department.
(d) Although the company identifies with and subscribes to the policy of promotion from within, and may select employees from the bargaining unit to become management trainees, it is understood that it is within the Company's sole and unrestricted discretion to determine and select employees to become management trainees and may make such selection from any outside source.
(e) It is not the intent of the Company to substitute management trainees for bargaining unit employees in the performance of bargaining unit work.
(f) The Union shall be entitled to meet with the Company every six months to review the Management Trainee Program.
7. SUMMER HELP: Employees hired during the summer vacation period (90 days or less) or during the two-week Christmas period shall be excluded from coverage under the Agreement.
8. Coffee will be provided at Company expense in all break rooms utilized by bargaining unit employees.
9. Bargaining unit employees shall be supplied by the Company with uniforms to be worn in performing their work, and the Company shall make arrangements for periodic cleaning of such uniforms at Company expense.
10. When bargaining unit employees are required for job-related reasons to travel using their own vehicles between the Company's facilities at the Northvale, New Jersey location and the Pomona, New York location, they shall be reimbursed by the Company for such travel at the rate of _________ cents ($ _________) per mile.
11. Paychecks for bargaining unit employees shall be issued weekly, and payday shall be on Wednesday.
12. Bagels and/or donuts shall be provided for bargaining unit employees required to work overtime on Saturday, unless one or more employees are scheduled to work straight time on that day.
13. Bargaining unit employees working the second shift shall not be required to begin mandatory overtime work on Saturdays any sooner than eight hours after completion of their final, straight-time shift (which would have begun on the preceding Friday); notwithstanding the foregoing, second shift employees may begin overtime work on Saturdays in less than eight hours after completion of their last preceding straight-time shift if such arrangement is mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor responsible for scheduling the overtime work.
14. The Company will generally seek to maintain a one-to-one ratio of QA Associates to QA Inspectors in the Quality Assurance Department. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be considered a violation of the terms of this Agreement for the Company to have as many as two more QA Associates than QA Inspectors in the Department for a period of up to four months if the Company deems that such an imbalance advances the Company's interests in ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety.
15. WORK AND FAMILY COMMITTEE: The Company and the Union recognize that counseling and other forms of assistance may be of value to an employee and his or her family in situations in which personal problems have the potential to interfere with the employee's performance of job responsibilities. The Company and Union also recognize that Company policies may have an impact on the lives of employees. The Company and the Union agree that employees should strive to achieve an appropriate balance between work and family responsibilities. In addition, the Company and Union further agree to work together to address issues related to the mutual goal of achieving a balance between work and family responsibilities. Accordingly, the Company and the Union have agreed upon a Work and Family Policy and agree to maintain a Work and Family Committee as a forum in which such issues can be constructively considered and discussed. The Committee will be comprised of four members, two designated by the Union and two designated by the Company. The Committee's mandate, in addition to sustaining dialog about work and family issues that are relevant to the Company's employees, shall include working to assure that employees are aware of the Company's Employee Assistance Plan, including the resources that employees can access through that Plan, and any other professional community resources that might be able to assist with problems relating to the employee's efforts to achieve a healthy balance between work and family. Communications by individual employees with Committee members regarding particular problems that such employees are encountering in striving to achieve that balance shall be treated as strictly confidential and shall not be discussed with anyone other than current members of the Work and Family Committee. Information that an employee shares with Work and Family Committee members, as is the case with all communications with Employee Assistance Program counsellors, in connection with the employee's efforts to obtain assistance from the Committee on matters within its mandate shall be treated as confidential and shall not be considered in any way as a basis for disciplinary action of any kind. The Committee will meet quarterly at agreed upon times and places to review issues brought to the Committee's attention by employees or Management. Chairing the Committee meetings and the preparation of minutes will alternate between Union and Management members. Union members of the Committee shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rates for time spent in the Committee's meetings. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as overriding or modifying any other provisions of this Agreement.
16. CHILD CARE: The Company shall, as soon as is practicable after the effective date of this Agreement, establish a flexible spending account in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code, which will make it possible for employees to set aside a portion of pretax income each year to be used to defray dependent care expenses. The Company shall also contract with the Rockland Council for Young Children to provide child care counseling and referral services for any employees requiring such assistance.
XIII. GRIEVANCES
1. For purposes of this Agreement, a grievance is any dispute or difference of opinion between the Company and the Union, or between the Company and any of its employees covered by this Agreement, involving the meaning, interpretation or application of the express provisions of this Agreement. Any dispute over whether a complaint is subject to these procedures shall be treated as a grievance, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES. Permission to investigate grievances shall not be unreasonably denied, provided however that the Union shall conduct no grievance investigation in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express consent of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
2. Grievance adjustments below the Step 3 level shall be binding only with respect to that specific grievance and shall not be deemed to establish a binding standard for the bargaining unit as a whole, unless the Company and the Union specifically agree otherwise in writing.
3. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII, DISCHARGE AND DISCIPLINE, and Article XXVIII, LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES, no grievance shall be entertained by the Company, except in the following order and manner, and within the following time limits:
STEP 1: In the event an employee covered by this Agreement has a complaint involving the interpretation, application or alleged violation of this Agreement, he shall take the matter up with his immediate Supervisor at a mutually convenient time within ten work days of the occurrence of the event out of which the grievance arises, or within ten working days from the date when the Union or the employee should reasonably have been aware of the facts on which the grievance is based. The employee may be accompanied by a Union Representative if the employee so desires. The Supervisor shall give his answer to the employee as soon as practical, but in any event within ten work days.
STEP 2: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 1, it shall be reduced to writing, stating the specific relief sought, signed by the employee and presented by the Department Steward to the Supervisor within ten work days from the time the Supervisor gives his answer as provided in Step 1 above. The Supervisor will discuss the matter with the employee and the Department Steward presenting the written grievance as soon as is practical, and in any event within ten work days after the Supervisor receives the written grievance. The Supervisor will give a written answer to the employee and the Union as soon as is practical, but in any event within ten work days of the time the written grievance is presented. The presentation of the Supervisor's written answer shall terminate Step 2.
STEP 3: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 2, the Union may, within ten work days after the termination of Step 2, request a meeting with the Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, to discuss the grievance. The Vice President, Human Resources, or her representative, the employee, either the Chief Steward or a Department Steward of the Union, and a representative of the International or Local Union, if available, shall meet as soon as practical at a mutually convenient time, but in any event within ten work days of such written request, and discuss the matter in an attempt to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of the grievance. The answer of the Vice President, Human Resources, shall be given, in writing, to the employee and the Union within ten work days of the meeting referred to in this Step. The issuance of the answer to the affected employee and the Union shall terminate Step 3.
STEP 4: In the event the grievance is not settled in Step 3, the Union may, within ten work days of receipt by the Union of said answer, request in writing that the grievance be submitted to arbitration as provided in Section 4 below.
4. Within ten days of the Company's receipt of the Union's request for arbitration, the Union or the Company, on an alternating basis (beginning with the Union for the first arbitral panel requested during the term of this Agreement), shall request the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') to submit a panel of seven qualified and available arbitrators, providing a copy of such request contemporaneously to the other party and pay any necessary fee to obtain such a panel. Within ten work days after receipt of the panel, the parties shall alternately strike names from the panel, beginning with the party requesting the arbitration, until the name of the arbitrator is thus chosen. The request for an arbitral panel shall be deemed to have been made upon mailing it to AAA. If the party responsible for requesting the arbitral panel from AAA fails to do so within the ten day period prescribed for the submission of such request, the other party shall have the right to request the panel and select the arbitrator from among any of the names on the panel obtained from AAA. If either party fails or refuses to participate in the arbitrator selection process in such a manner as to assure that it is completed within the aforementioned ten day period allotted for the process, the other party shall have the right to designate the arbitrator from among those on the panel who have not been previously stricken by one of the parties. The arbitrator shall be notified of his selection by a joint letter from the Company and the Union requesting that he set a time and place for the hearing, subject to the availability of the Company and Union representatives, and the letter shall specify the issue(s) to the arbitrator. Any grievance as to which the arbitration hearing is not completed within six months after selection of the arbitrator shall be deemed finally determined on the basis of the Company's final response in Step 3 of the grievance procedure unless the failure to complete the hearing within such period is solely the product of either: (a) the Company's refusal to make its representative available to attend the hearing in that period; or (b) the unavailability of the arbitrator on any dates within such period. If the failure to complete the hearing within six months is solely the result of the Company's refusal to make its representative available on any dates within such period, the Company shall be deemed to have waived all defenses to the issue of liability, leaving only the issue of appropriate relief to be determined by the arbitrator.
5. The arbitrator so appointed shall conduct a hearing and render his decision, in writing, with all reasonable promptness. Any decision rendered by an arbitrator appointed hereunder shall be final and binding upon the Company, the Union, and the employee or employees involved on matters that are the proper subject of arbitration hereunder.
6. Any arbitrator appointed under the provisions of this Article shall consider and decide only the particular issue(s) presented to him in writing by the Company and the Union, and his decision and award shall be based solely upon his interpretation of the meaning or application of the express terms of this Agreement to the facts of the grievance presented. If the matter sought to be arbitrated does not involve an interpretation of the express terms of this Agreement, the arbitrator shall so rule in his award and the matter shall not be further entertained by the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have no right to amend, modify, nullify, ignore, add to or subtract from the provisions of this Agreement. The arbitrator shall have no authority to overturn or modify any action of the Company unless the Union shows by clear and convincing evidence that such action was violative of the express terms of this Agreement or was arbitrary and capricious or, in any case involving disciplinary action taken against an employee, either that the employee did not commit the act on which the disciplinary action was based or that the Company's action against the employee was arbitrary and capricious.
7. The compensation and expenses of the arbitrator, and other expenses mutually agreed to in advance, shall be borne equally by the Company and the Union.
8. Employees losing time as a result of participation in arbitration proceeding sunder this Article, shall be made whole by the party on whose behalf they appear.
9. A grievance initiated by either the Company or the Union, involving the interpretation or application of this Agreement, may be commenced at the Step 3 level, as set forth above, by the filing of such grievance in writing with the other party within ten work days after the party initiating the grievance has reason to believe that the other party has assumed a position inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event of a grievance initiated by the Company, the written grievance shall be accompanied by a request for a meeting with the Local President of the Union. All rights, obligations and time limits for action by the Vice President Human Resources, specified in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4 above, shall apply to the President of the Local Union in grievances initiated by the Company, and all rights, obligations and time limits applicable to the Union or employee in Steps 3, 4 and 5 and Section 4, shall apply to the Company.
10. If any steps or actions provided for in this Article are not taken, appeals herein provided for are not taken or filed, or notice is not given within the time limit specified for such steps, actions, appeals or notice, then the grievance shall be deemed final and settled on the basis of the Company's last reply. If the Company's reply is not timely given at any stage in the grievance procedure, then the grievance shall be deemed denied at the expiration of the time limit within which an answer is required and such denial may be appealed to the next step in the grievance procedure specified. Any of the time limits specified in this Article may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties. Saturdays, Sundays, days on which the Company facilities are closed for any part or all of the day due to inclement weather, and those holidays specified in Article XV of this Agreement shall not be included in the computation of time periods specified by this Article.
11. In general, any investigation, discussion and settlement of grievances shall be done during working hours, provided however that no such activities shall be conducted in such a manner as to interfere in any way with Company operations without the prior, express permission of the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager.
12. The Company and the Union may, by mutual agreement in writing, submit any unresolved grievance to mediation under contract under the auspices of the New Jersey Board of Mediation. If the mediator in such a case is unable to arrive at a mediated settlement that is acceptable to both parties, the parties shall request that he or she issue a written 'Mediator's Recommendation,' which shall be final and binding on both parties as to the case in which it is issued but shall have no precedential effect and shall not be admissible for any purpose in any future cases. In any case in which the parties agree to mediation, they shall be deemed to have waived any right to arbitration to which they might otherwise have been entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The fact that a party declines to agree to mediation in a particular case shall not be admissible for any purpose in that or any other case.
XIV. VACATIONS
1. All employees covered by this Agreement shall be eligible for paid vacations according to the following schedule with the length of an employee's continuous service being calculated from the anniversary date of hire:
Less than
Two years of continuous service One week
After
Two years of continuous service Two weeks
After
Five years of continuous service Three weeks
After
Ten years of continuous service Four weeks
After
Fifteen years of continuous service Five weeks
Employees shall accrue vacation rights each year at the rate of one twelfth of the total amount of the employee's vacation eligibility under this Section for each month he or she works or is on vacation or paid leave provided for in Article XXII of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have worked a month, and therefore to have earned vacation accrual credit, if he actually works or is on vacation or Article XXII paid leave for at least one hundred hours in that month. Accrual will begin on January 1 of each year or, in the case of employees who are hired or return to work after January 1, on the date the employee begins work. Accrual rate increases provided for in the schedule set forth above shall become applicable on January 1 of the year of the anniversary date on which the employee will reach the amount of continuous service making him eligible for an increased amount of vacation. Any accrued vacation not taken before December 31 of the year following the year in which it accrued shall be lost, and in no event will an employee be entitled to receive pay in lieu of vacation except where the employee is laid off or leaves the Company's employ with accrued and unused vacation, or where the employee is prevented from taking properly scheduled vacation by a Company requirement that he cancel such scheduled vacation and he is unable to reschedule the vacation to be taken before the end of the year. Employees with less than five years of service shall be entitled to take vacation only to the extent that it has accrued. Beginning in the calendar year after completing four years of continuous service with the Company and subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, however, employees shall be entitled to take up to one-half of the vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time prior to July 1 of that year. Such employees shall be entitled to take up to the full amount of vacation that they will be eligible to accrue during the calendar year at any time after June 30 of that year. In the event the employee fails to work the entire year (including, without limitation, because of being discharged, suspended, or laid off, or because of going on disability or a leave without pay status), any pay received by the employee for vacation not accrued at the time the employee leaves the active workforce shall be deducted from the employee's paycheck for the final pay period preceding the employee's ceasing or interrupting work. If the employee's final paycheck is in an amount insufficient to reimburse the Employer for the amount of unaccrued vacation previously taken, the employee shall pay the Employer the difference on or before his final day at work.
2. Eligible employees who take vacation in a week when they are scheduled to work an eight hour shift shall receive as vacation pay eight times the employee's straight time hourly rate for each day of vacation. Vacation payment shall be made the last scheduled pay day before Eligible employees taking vacation in a week in which they are scheduled to work four or more ten hour days shall receive vacation pay for each day of vacation equal to the amount of pay they would have received had they worked the scheduled ten hours on that day.
3. Accrued vacation may be taken at any time during the calendar year, except that newly hired employees shall not be entitled to take vacation or receive pay in lieu of vacation until after successful completion of their probationary period. However, the employee must obtain permission to schedule any vacation from the Company at least one month before the scheduled departure date. The Company will not unreasonably withhold its permission, but retains discretion to deny an employee's request if it is deemed inconsistent with production requirements or the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Subject to the foregoing, if two or more employees request the same vacation period and the Company deems it inadvisable for all of such employees to be out on vacation at the same time, the employee or employees with greater seniority shall be given preference.
4. Vacation must be taken in no less than eight hour blocks, or in the case of employees taking vacation on a day when they would have been scheduled to work ten hour shifts, in ten-hour blocks.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all vacation time used by an employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of vacation taken and accrued to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide periodic information of the employees' vacation account balances on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
XV. HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY PAY
1. Full-time and regular part-time employees shall be eligible for holiday pay. Eligible full-time employees will be credited with eight hours (or ten hours in the case of employees who would have been scheduled to work a ten hour shift but for the holiday) worked on holidays enumerated in Section 2 below, provided they have passed their probationary period. Holiday pay for eligible part-time employees shall be prorated on the basis of the average daily straight-time hours they are regularly scheduled to work in the week in which the holiday falls. Otherwise eligible employees shall not receive holiday pay (or be credited with hours worked) under the following conditions:
(a) An employee who has an unexcused tardiness or who is absent on the work day or part of the work day preceding or following the holiday, except for employees absent because of serious illness or serious accident for no more than five working days prior to or following the holiday.
(b) Employees who are off on a personal leave of absence.
(c) Employees on suspension or disciplinary layoff.
(d) The employee who would not normally be scheduled to work and who would not normally work on such day in any event.
2. The following days shall be considered holidays under this Agreement:
New Years Day Thanksgiving Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday Day after Thanksgiving
Presidents' Day Christmas Eve
Memorial Day Christmas Day
July 4th Day before New Year's Day
Labor Day Employee's Birthday
Religious holidays shall be permitted to be celebrated without pay and employees shall not be penalized for their absence on such days.
3. Subject to the limitations set forth in Article 4, Section 3, work performed on holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's regular rate in addition to the holiday pay.
4. If a holiday falls within an employee's vacation, such employee shall be paid holiday pay for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or shall receive an extra day of vacation, as agreed by the Company and the employee.
5. Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, Section 2 of this Agreement, holiday pay for an employee entitled thereto shall be computed on the basis of eight times the employee's average straight time hourly earnings in the last calendar quarter ending immediately prior to the particular paid holiday. Overtime premium payments, holiday payments, vacation payments and all other non-working time payments shall be excluded from the holiday computation.
6. All holidays falling on a Sunday shall be celebrated on the following Monday.
7. All holidays falling on a Saturday shall be celebrated on the preceding Friday.
XVI. WAGE INCREASES
1.
(a) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
(b) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(c) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(d) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $0.30 per hour.
(e) Effective _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), all employees in the Senior Manufacturing Operator, Chemical Operator II, Maintenance Mechanic, Machine Mechanic, Chemical Operator I, Set-Up Mechanic, and QA Inspector classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; all employees in the Licensed Trailer Truck Driver, Line Technician, and Supplier/Material Handler classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour; and all employees in the Packer and Porter classifications will receive a wage increase of $ _________ per hour.
2. The Company shall have sole and unrestricted discretion with respect to establishing new job classifications, revising old job classifications and/or combining job classifications, and establishing the hourly rates of pay for employees who perform work therein. In the event the Company determines that revision or combination of an old job classification warrants a reduction in the hourly rates of employees in the positions affected by a revision or combination, and in all cases in which the Company establishes a new job classification, the Company shall propose the new rate to the Union at least two weeks before it is scheduled to go into effect and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the new rate. In the event the Union believes that the hourly rates of jobs affected by a classification revision or combination should be increased, the Union shall propose a new rate and the parties shall negotiate in good faith in an effort to reach agreement on the rate. If the parties reach impasse during the term of this Agreement in negotiations regarding wage rate changes entered into pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have the right to implement unilaterally its final offer. The Union has the right to grieve this decision pursuant to the terms of Article XIII of this Agreement. In the event the Union grieves the Company's implementation of its final offer, and the Company later agrees or an arbitrator rules that a different rate should apply, such revised rate shall be applied retroactively to the date of the Company's unilateral implementation of its final offer put forth in the original negotiations.
3. The Company shall have the right to establish hourly rates of pay for various jobs, and to revise or otherwise change such hourly rates, but in no event shall any rate be revised downward, except as provided above in Section 2 of this Article.
4. The Company shall negotiate with the Union, the rate of all newly created jobs, prior to posting a bid or interviewing potential candidates.
5. The parties agree that there will be one rate of hire in each classification for new employees.
6. As noted in the schedules set forth below in Section 8 of this Article, employees shall receive the general wage increase and incremental wage increases in progression until they reach the maximum rate.
7. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine whether and when written job descriptions for bargaining unit jobs need to be revised or updated. Whenever such job descriptions are revised or updated, the Company shall promptly provide the Union with copies of the new descriptions. The Union has the right, within twenty workdays after receipt of the new job descriptions, to submit written suggestions for changes in such job descriptions (with explanations of the rationales for any such suggestions) that it believes the Company should consider. The Company shall consider any such suggestions offered by the Union in good faith. If the Company declines to accept any such suggestion and there remains a dispute as to whether, without the suggested change, the job description in question accurately describes the content of the job that is its subject, the Union may process the dispute through the grievance and arbitration procedure prescribed in Article XIII of this Agreement.
8. WAGE RATES: The wage rates applicable to positions covered by this Agreement shall be as follows:
Senior Manufacturing Operator
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
To be eligible to bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internship position openings, employees must, at the time of their submission of a bid on such openings, be currently employed as a Chemical Operator I, Chemical Operator II, or a Machine Mechanic, and have worked for at least one year and demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the five production disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators are expected to demonstrate and maintain a high level of proficiency (i.e., Compounding, Tableting, Coating, Encapsulation, and Packaging). Employees who successfully bid on Senior Manufacturing Operator internships shall receive a $ _________/hr. increase upon moving into an internship assignment or within fifteen days of receiving the bid, whichever occurs first. Upon becoming certified as proficient in two of the Senior Manufacturing Operator disciplines, interns shall receive an additional $ _________/hr. increase in their wages. Additional increases in the amount of $ _________/hr, would occur for interns who become certified as proficient in the third and fourth disciplines. Upon certification of an intern's proficiency in the fifth of the five disciplines in which Senior Manufacturing Operators must demonstrate proficiency, employees shall begin to receive the appropriate full Senior Manufacturing Operator rate specified above. The probationary period prescribed in Article XXIX of this Agreement shall apply upon an employee's initial assignment to a Senior Manufacturing Operator internship and at each assignment to a new discipline during the employee's internship.
Maintenance Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
$ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator II
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Maximum Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
The number of Chemical Operator II positions, if any, on each shift and in each department shall be determined by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion.
Machine Mechanic
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Rate $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Chemical Operator I
Effective Effective Effective Effective Effective
_________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y) _________(M/D/Y)
Start $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 3 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 6 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 9 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
After 12 months from
Date of Hire $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________ $ _________
Any employee who was classified as a Labeler as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to have his/her rate RED circled. All Porters hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) shall continue to be paid at the Supplier/Material handler rate.
9. HOLIDAY BONUS: The Company shall pay a holiday bonus to all nonprobationary employees beginning in December of 1996. The amount of the bonus shall be $ _________, with prorated lesser amounts for employees who have worked less than the full calendar year preceding the date on which the bonus is to be paid. The bonus checks prescribed in this Section shall be distributed to eligible employees on or before December 15 of each year.
XVII. HEALTH AND WELFARE
1. The Company agrees to make available to its regular full-time employees (and their dependents) covered by this Agreement who are actively employed, Health and Welfare coverage with the BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149 Welfare Plan, which shall include dental insurance coverage with a benefit of up to $ _________ per employee per year. For the remainder of the term of this Agreement, the Employer contribution shall be 20.6% of gross payroll straight time excluding overtime, unused sick pay and unused vacation pay. This rate shall, however, be adjusted to cover any changes in premium charges to the Union by its providers during the first four years of this Agreement up to a maximum aggregate increase of thirty percent over the premium levels in effect on the effective date of this Agreement, and for any increase of up to seven percent in the fifth and final year of this Agreement. The Employer shall calculate such contribution for any employee who actually works and/or is paid time for vacation, Article XXII sick leave and/or holidays for a total in excess of one hundred hours in any calendar month, as if said employee had worked all scheduled straight time in that month. The contribution on behalf of any employee whose total paid time for time worked is equal to or less than one hundred hours shall be calculated on a pro-rated basis by multiplying the amount of a full contribution by the ratio derived by dividing the amount of the employee's paid time in that month by the total amount of scheduled straight time in that month, plus any paid holiday time for which the employee would have been eligible if he had actually worked all scheduled straight time.
2. EMPLOYEES' ELIGIBILITY: Full-time employees covered by this agreement are eligible upon completion of one hundred twenty days of continuous active service. Full-time employees are defined as those employees completing 2,080 hours of service in a calendar year. Part-time employees are defined as those employees completing at least 1,560 hours of service in a calendar year.
3. The Employer shall contribute to the BBB Union, Local 8-149 Welfare Plan for those eligible employees who are on family or medical leave pursuant to the terms of Article IX, and for employees who are on disability and workers' compensation for a maximum period of six months.
XVIII. CHECKOFF
In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each month from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed union dues and initiation fees, and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employee, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
XIX. RELOCATION
In the event the Company shall at any time move its operations from its present location to any other place within a radius of 100 miles, the employees in service with the Company at the time of such move shall be offered a opportunity for employment in the new location, and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and shall be applicable to such employees in the new location, provided, however, a majority of the employees so offered employment relocate and are employed with the Company at the new location.
XX. UNION SECURITY
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, and those current employees who are not members on the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day thereafter, become and remain members in good standing in the Union. It shall also be a condition of employment that all employees covered by this Agreement and hired after the effective date of this Agreement, shall, on the thirty-first day after said hiring date, become and thereafter remain members in good standing in the Union.
2. Upon written notice from the Union, the Employer shall discharge any employee not a member in good standing as defined under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
XXI. UNION REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDS
1.
(a) The establishment of a Union Committee composed of not more than three members, which shall also serve as the Grievance Committee and the establishment of a Steward system is agreed to by the Company. The Union shall be permitted to have two alternate stewards.
(b) Representatives of the International Union shall be permitted to assist the Committee at all times, provided that such representatives shall accord at least forty-eight hours advance notice to the Company's Vice President Human Resources of any need for access to Company facilities, respect and observe any applicable sign-in and site security rules, and refrain from interfering with or impeding Company operations or the work of any employee. In cases of emergency, the Union may request and the Vice President Human Resources may permit access to Company premises on less than forty-eight hours notice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably denied.
(c) In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be one steward employed on the second shift and the Union shall be permitted to have one (1) alternate steward on said shift.
(d) The Chief Steward and Stewards shall be allowed two hours off, without pay, four (4) times a calendar year, for the purpose of attending Union Educational and Training Sessions related to the performance of their responsibilities as stewards at AAA.
(e) The Department Stewards will be expected to perform on a full-time basis the responsibilities of the jobs to which they are assigned in the bargaining unit. Management will allow them a reasonable amount of time away from their duties (up to a maximum of four hours per week) to handle union business, provided a request for such excused time is made and approved in advance by the Vice President Human Resources or Plant Manager and the proposed scheduling of the release time requested will not significantly interfere with or impair the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. The Chief Steward shall be expected to perform on a full- time basis the responsibilities of a bargaining unit position, except that he will be granted a total of twelve hours per week to handle Union business, to be scheduled in advance in at least four hour blocks at times that are mutually agreeable to the Company and the Union, and which may be changed no more frequently than quarterly. In the event of extraordinary need, the Vice President Human Resources may, in her sole and unrestricted discretion, grant a request of the Chief Steward for release time in addition to the weekly period(s) regularly set aside for Union business pursuant to the terms of this Section. The Chief Steward's bargaining unit work will be scheduled to be performed on a Monday through Friday schedule. The Chief Steward shall be eligible for overtime assignments on the same basis as other similarly situated employees in his classification and so long as he confines his handling of Union business to the prearranged twelve hour schedule prescribed above, such hours shall be treated as time worked for purposes of eligibility for overtime premium pay as provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of this Agreement. All employment conditions applicable to the Chief Steward under this Section shall also apply to the Unit Secretary.
2. The Company will make available for the exclusive use of the Union at least one office with a telephone and a reasonable amount of file space.
3. Department Stewards shall be allowed up to three and one-half hours of unpaid leave to attend each quarterly meeting of the Union. The amount of such leave will vary based on the individual shift schedule of each Steward, but shall not exceed three and one-half hours for any Steward. If shift schedules should change in such a manner during the term of this Agreement as to make the aforementioned amount of release time clearly inadequate to permit attendance at the quarterly meetings, the Company and the Union will meet to work out a reasonable accommodation of their respective interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company reserves the right to deny any Department Steward's request for leave to attend any one or more quarterly meetings because of unusual work related problems that would significantly affect productivity, efficiency, quality or regulatory compliance, although the Company acknowledges that it expects such instances to be rare. The Union will provide the Company with a schedule of its quarterly meetings in January of each calendar year. Each Department Steward shall be responsible for confirming with his or her Supervisor the time and dates of any release requirements pursuant to this Section one week prior to the scheduled quarterly meeting with respect to which leave is requested.
XXII. SICK LEAVE, PERSONAL DAYS, LONGEVITY DAY
1. The Company agrees to continue, for the life of this Agreement, its current policy of paid sick leave. Each employee employed eight months or more, shall be entitled to five days of paid sick leave per calendar year.
2. New employees shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave at the rate of one day for each two months of employment to commence after the employee's eighth month of employment, but not retroactively.
3. Employees not using all or any of the five paid sick days shall have the option of receiving unused sick pay on or about December 15th of each calendar year, or banking up to five days for use in the following year. The number of paid sick days an employee has available shall not affect charging of occurrences under the Company's attendance policy.
4. Sick days may be used in four hour blocks, but not less, except that employees assigned to work ten hour shifts must use their sick days in blocks of not less than five hours.
5. The Company will maintain a record of all sick leave and personal time used by the employee and provide updated information regarding the amount of sick leave taken and accrued and unused personal and longevity days to employees on request. If the Company acquires the payroll accounting capability to provide such information periodically on payroll stubs or through other means without incurring substantial additional expense during the term of this Agreement, it shall do so.
6. PERSONAL DAYS: In order to qualify for one personal day per contract year, the following conditions must be met by an employee:
(a) The employee must give 3 working days advance notice to department supervisor as to which day is to be taken as a personal day, and
(b) The personal day cannot be added to the employee's vacation period, and
(c) The personal day cannot be taken during a week of a holiday, nor shall it be taken on a working day before or after a holiday.
(d) The personal day may be used in four hour blocks, or in five hour blocks in the case of employees assigned to work ten hour shifts. The above conditions must be met for an employee to take the personal day in four or five hour blocks unless a personal emergency exists.
If all the above conditions are met, said personal day may be taken at the employee's option.
Subject to the foregoing conditions, employees who have been employed by Barr for five or more consecutive years, shall be entitled to take one additional personal day per year.
7. LONGEVITY DAY: Those employees who have attained ten years of service or more shall receive a personal day off with pay as a longevity day. Said employee must give one week's notice to his Supervisor before taking such day: If there is any limitation on the number of people taking the longevity day at a particular time, seniority shall apply. The longevity day must be taken as a day, not less.
XXIII. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL
In the event the Company establishes a second shift, there shall be a ten percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said second shift. In the event the Company establishes a third shift, there shall be a fifteen percent shift differential paid to each employee employed on said third shift.
The differential for the shift starting at midday (Example:11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) shall be eight percent.
XXIV. REPORTING AND CALL-IN PAY
1. REGULAR WORK (REPORTING TIME): Any employee who reports to work unless otherwise previously notified eight hours prior to starting time by the Company shall receive four hours work or pay for that day. If in the course of the day an employee is sent home because of lack of work, and has completed at least four hours of work, or five hours work if he is assigned to work a ten hour shift, he shall be paid for the remainder of his shift.
2. EMERGENCY WORK (CALL-IN): When an employee is called for emergency work, has completed his regular eight hour shift, and is eligible under Article IV for overtime pay, he shall be paid a minimum of four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half. If, upon completion of the first four hours of work on the emergency job the employee is required to stay over for additional work, he shall be paid a minimum of an additional four hours pay at the rate of time and one-half.
XXV. SAFETY AND HEALTH
1. The Company shall assume the responsibility imposed in accordance with State Workers Compensation Laws for employees who suffer injury or disease resulting from conditions on the job.
2. No employee shall knowingly be permitted to work on a job which poses a recognized health hazard (including any medically demonstrated sensitivity that would make continued exposure to a substance with which he comes into contact in the performance of his assigned job duties where continued exposure to the substance would be detrimental to his health) unless effective control measures (i.e., engineering and/or administrative controls and, where appropriate, personal protective equipment) have been provided. No employee shall knowingly perform any unsafe act that presents a danger either to the employee or to others. In the event that an individual cannot perform a specific job function due to illness, injury or physical sensitivity to substances present in the workplace, that individual will be given suitable alternative work, if such work is available, provided the employee provides the Company with a statement from his physician confirming that, despite the limitation that precludes him from performing his normal job functions, he is fit to perform the job functions of the available alternative work. In addition, the Company may, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, require that any employee claiming to have a job related illness or injury or a physical sensitivity that interferes with or precludes his performance of the normal responsibilities of his position submit to an examination by a physician chosen and paid for by the Company for the purpose of obtaining independent medical verification of the condition and any work limitations resulting from it. In the event no alternative work is available, 'bumping' shall apply unless the Company determines in its discretion that allowing the employee to exercise 'bumping' rights would be inconsistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Employees who are transferred or bump into positions pursuant to this Section that have lower wage rates than their usual jobs shall be compensated at the higher rate for one month, and will thereafter be compensated at the lower rate.
3. The Company shall make available annually, to all employees, a physical examination and pay for same. The Health and Safety Committee will help determine the protocol for physical examinations. The Company shall inform the Union of any changes in the physicians or medical group performing the physicals. In addition to annual physical examinations, all employees shall be required to participate and cooperate fully in all medical surveillance programs deemed by the Company to be necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations or other regulatory provisions, or any other medical surveillance approved by the Health and Safety Committee.
4. The Company shall institute and maintain all necessary precautions for safeguarding its employees against conditions that the Company knows or should know are likely to be harmful their health and safety. Both the Company and the Union recognize their mutual obligation to assist in the prevention, correction, and elimination of all unhealthy and unsafe working conditions and practices.
5. There shall be established a joint labor-management Health and Safety Committee consisting of two Union and two Company representatives. It shall hold meetings eight times per year at times and places mutually convenient and agreeable to the representatives of the Union and the Company attending and scheduled by or before December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the meetings are to be held. The purpose of such meetings shall be to consider, review and/or provide recommendations for workplace conditions and health and safety related practices. Members of the Committee shall also conduct monthly tours of the Company's manufacturing facilities with advance notice to and in cooperation with plant and departmental Management. Findings from these tours shall be reviewed at the regular meetings of the Committee. Union representatives shall be compensated at their regularly assigned wage rate for reasonable time spent in connection with the work of the Committee.
6. Any employee who is injured on the job, and who must miss time from work on the day of the injury and (or the following day) on the instructions of the Company physician or other physicians acceptable to the Company, will be paid special compensation pay up to the balance of the work day as well as the following day. Any employee who receives compensation pay for this time period due to a claim from Workers' Compensation shall not be eligible for special compensation pay.
7. At least once each year, the parties will undertake an industrial hygiene survey in the plants performed by a certified industrial hygienist mutually acceptable to the Company and the Union, and whose fee shall be paid by the Company. A Company representative and a Union representative shall accompany such hygienist at all times during any on-site inspection activities. An unedited report of the survey shall be submitted in writing to the Company and the Union. At a mutually established time, subsequent to the receipt of reports, the Company and the Union will meet to review such reports and to consider the findings. The parties may conduct a second survey in any year by mutual agreement.
8. The Company and the Union agree that the Director of OCAW's District Resource Center and the Company's Associate director of Health and Safety shall meet and confer for the purpose of developing a mutually acceptable protocol for a joint training program on health and safety awareness for Barr's bargaining unit employees. It is agreed that the curriculum and course content will be fully reviewed and approved in advance of any training sessions, that the training sessions will be in segments of no more than two hours at a time and for a cumulative total in any calendar year of no more than four hours, and that all such training sessions shall be scheduled at mutually agreeable times and in such a way as to minimize any disruption of the Company's production and any impact on the Company's ability to ensure regulatory compliance, product quality and integrity, productivity, efficiency and safety. Any further health and safety training deemed necessary by Management will be provided by the Company.
9. The Company will provide protective equipment including waterproof boot coverings and outdoor clothing for employees as required.
10. The Company will reimburse employees in departments where required and applicable, up to _________ Dollars ($ _________) for one pair of safety shoes upon completion of their probationary period. Employees will also be reimbursed for the cost of replacement safety shoes, up to a maximum of _________ Dollars ($ _________) upon turning in worn out safety shoes previously paid for in whole or in part by the Company.
XXVI. WASH UP TIME AND REST PERIODS
1. There shall be a five minute wash-up time in all departments prior to the lunch period.
2. For employees working an eight hour shift, there shall be a fifteen minute rest period with the first four hours worked, and another fifteen minute rest period within the second four hours worked.
XXVII. TUITION REFUND PLAN
The Company will reimburse an employee for up to $1,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

,500 per semester with a limit of two semesters per contract year, for tuition costs only.
The course to be taken must be related to the employee's job. All courses must be taken at an accredited school approved by the Company. In order to qualify for this benefit, the employee must apply to the Vice President Human Resources or her designee at least six weeks prior to the date on which the tuition payment would be due, providing a detailed description of the course to be taken and identifying the institution offering it. Such applications may be denied if the Company determines, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, either that the course is insufficiently related to the employee's job or that the Company should not approve the school.
It is further agreed that the employee in question must attain a 'B' average or better (or, in the case of approved courses offered on a pass-fail basis, the employee must obtain a passing mark in the course); and if the employee fails to attain same, the Company will not reimburse such monies expended towards tuition costs. Enrollment is subject to the Company's prior approval.
It is further agreed that educational tuition shall be available to all employees in the bargaining unit employed at least one year or more.
XXVIII. LOCKOUTS AND STRIKES
1. The Union shall not call or authorize any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, and the Employer shall not cause any lockout. Where an unauthorized strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work occurs, the Union will make immediate efforts to return the strikers to their respective jobs, and shall request the strikers to cease any action which may affect production. The Employer agrees, in consideration of the performance of the Union of the aforesaid undertakings, to absolve the Union, its officers or agents, of any liability by suit for damages for breach of contract, or of any kind or character whatsoever. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the Union will not be held liable for any unauthorized or outlaw strikes or the individual acts or actions of any employee or group of employees, so long as the Union faithfully discharges its duty as hereinbefore described to use its best efforts to discourage such acts and to bring about their early cessation.
2. Should any employee or group of employees engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown, sit-in or any other interference with work, the Employer shall have the right to summarily discharge the aforesaid employee or groups of employees. In any such case, resort may be had to the grievance procedure under Article XIII of this Agreement only to determine the question of whether the disciplined employee did, in fact, engage in the conduct of which he is accused.
3. In the event the Union or any of its officers, agents or members engage in conduct violative of Section 1 of this Article, it is agreed that the Company may:
(a) Seek to enjoin such conduct in any appropriate State Court;
(b) Submit the matter to an arbitrator mutually agreed to by the Company and the Union or, in the absence of such agreement, an arbitrator chosen by the Company from a panel of five arbitrators obtained from the American Arbitration Association; and
(c) Seek any other legal, equitable, administrative, judicial or contract remedies available to the Company under law.
XXIX. BIDDING AND POSTING
1. All job vacancies shall be posted on all bulletin boards in all Company production facilities for three days, exclusive of Saturday, Sunday, and paid holidays provided for in Article XV of this Agreement. Qualifications will be determined by seniority and ability to perform the job. The Company has sole and unrestricted discretion to determine who, among two or more qualified candidates is the best qualified to perform the work of the position in such a manner as to maximize the contributions of the position to the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. In evaluating the qualifications of candidates, the Company will take into full consideration the employee's past performance, demonstrated skills, disciplinary record, and over-all competency. Among equally qualified bidders, seniority shall control.
An employee bidding on a job shall give the job bid to the Human Resources Department which shall notify the chief steward as soon as bidding is closed. The Company shall interview all bidders within five working days from the end of the posting date. Within three days of the close of interviewing of bidders, or as soon as any labor-management dispute is resolved, the Company shall notify the steward and award the bid. Upon request by the steward, the Company will provide a written explanation of why an employee was not awarded the job.
Proficiency, aptitude, manual dexterity, and/or other scientifically developed and validated testing developed in-house or from other sources will, to the extent deemed helpful by the Company in its sole and unrestricted discretion, be administered to bidders to determine their suitability for training and performance. Such tests shall be related to those skills and qualifications necessary to the position. Any employee who has previously worked for at least six months and demonstrated proficiency in a position on which he seeks to bid shall not be required to take any mechanical aptitude test administered to other bidders for the job to demonstrate qualification for that job. Discriminatory administration of tests will be subject to the Union Grievance procedure. If the bidding employee fails the proficiency or aptitude test for the relevant position, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on that position or other positions requiring similar qualifications for a period of one year.
In order to assist incumbent bargaining unit employees who for any reason anticipate that they may have difficulty in performing well enough on aptitude tests utilized by the Company to determine qualifications of job bidders, the Company agrees that it will offer a basic skills training course (covering reading and math skills) to all interested employees at least twice a year. Attendance at such training course shall be entirely voluntary, on the participating employee's own time, and uncompensated.
In general, aptitude tests (designed to test a candidate's knowledge, skills and abilities for performance of job functions), when administered, will be given to candidates prior to selection of an employee to fill a job and used to assess the candidate's capabilities for completing training and successfully performing the job. Proficiency testing may be used to assess job knowledge at the preselection stage, where prior experience and/or specific job knowledge are prerequisites to selection for a job, or after the completion of training to assess whether the employee has acquired sufficient job knowledge through training to be able to perform the responsibilities of the job successfully. Testing for aptitude and proficiency will be limited to testing for knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for successful job performance, and the Union agrees that selection procedures meet this criterion if professionally developed and validated in accordance with the Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures issued by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Further, tests that have been in recent use in the Company's employee selection procedures shall be presumed to meet this criterion until new, professionally developed tests are available.
A successful bidder must be transferred to his new position within fifteen ays. If transfer to the new position takes longer than fifteen days, he/she will in any event, be entitled to the higher rate of pay (if a higher rate is otherwise applicable under the terms of this Agreement) effective fifteen days after an award. An employee who successfully bids on a higher rated job will receive the 3-month rate for that job or their current rate, whichever is higher, and will progress through the wage schedule thereafter.
In the event that none of the bidding employees are qualified for the available position, the Company may go outside.
Each employee shall be eligible for only one successful lateral bid per year. In addition, each employee shall be eligible for only two successful upgrade bids in a calendar year. But, in no event, shall any employee be eligible for more than two successful bids in one calendar year. Therefore, an employee who has successfully bid laterally shall be allowed only one upgrade bid.
If a bidding employee refuses an award, that employee shall not be entitled to bid on any other job for a period of one year.
Any employee selected for a new position in accordance with this Article shall be on probation which will not last more than ninety days, to demonstrate the necessary skill, ability and physical capability to learn and perform all aspects of the work in a satisfactory manner consistent with the Company's overall interests of ensuring regulatory compliance and product quality and integrity, and maximizing productivity, efficiency and safety. Such probationary period may be extended for an additional thirty days on mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. At any time during the probationary day period the Company may elect to return the employee to his old job and is under no obligation to retain in the position an employee who has been determined by the Company to be unsatisfactory for any reason.
In the event that an employee awarded a bid is not successful during the probationary period (i.e., performance is deemed by the Company to be unacceptable or employee decides to return to previous position), the Company shall award the job to the next senior bidder whose name appears on the original bid list, assuming that such employee is deemed by the Company to be qualified for the new position. After exhausting those employees deemed by the Company to be qualified on the original bid list, the Company, in its sole and unrestricted discretion, may fill the position by hiring from among applicants from outside the Company.
Any employee who voluntarily returns to his old job during the probationary period shall not be eligible to bid on any new job for a period of twelve months.
New employees shall not be permitted to bid on any new job until they successfully complete their probationary period.
XXX. CREDIT UNION CHECK-OFF
1. In a manner and to the extent permitted by law, the Company agrees to deduct each week from the wages of each of its employees who are members of the Union and who have voluntarily authorized same, the prescribed credit union deductions and to remit the same monthly to the Union. Each authorization shall be in writing, signed by the employees, and shall be delivered by the Union to the Company. The Union agrees to indemnify and save the Company harmless from any and all claims and/or disputes arising out of the Company's actions in compliance with this provision.
2. The Company agrees to allow payroll deductions for the Local 8-149 OCAW Federal Credit Union. Such deductions, if elected by employee, are to be made on a weekly basis and remitted on a monthly basis.
XXXI. 401(k) PLAN (EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT PLAN)
1. The employees may elect to contribute two percent of annual straight time wages and have the option of contributing up to twelve percent of annual straight time wages according to the by-laws of the plan. The Company agrees to match at one hundred percent the first two percent of each participating employee's annual straight time wages contributed to the plan.
2. The Company guarantees past service credit for vesting purposes only for employees hired prior to _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y). The minimum vesting schedule shall be as follows unless changed by Federal Regulations:
20% after 1st year of service
40% after 2nd year of service
60% after 3rd year of service
80% after 4th year of service
100% after 5th year of service
If an employee quits or is terminated, he shall receive all of his contribution and interest earned pursuant to the above schedule.
3. An employee must be eighteen years of age or older in order to be eligible to participate in the employee 401(k) Plan.
4. All employees hired before _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) will receive a one-time severance pay as follows:
(a) Two percent (2%) of their straight-time pay earned since they began working with Barr until _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
(b) Collect a lump sum at age 55 or upon retirement, if they retire after age 55 at their option.
(c) Provided they are employed as of _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y).
5. The plan shall be attached hereto and become a part hereof.
6. The Company will notify the Union in advance and discuss any changes in the 401(k) Plan. Any such changes will not have retroactive effect. The Company and the chief shop steward will regularly educate the employees in regard to the 401(k) Plan.
XXXII. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement will be binding upon successors and/or assigns and shall survive any sale, change of name or reorganization.
XXXIII. SEVERANCE PAY
Employees who are permanently laid off or who retire at age 59-1/2 or after, shall be eligible to receive severance pay as follows:
0 but less than 1 Year of Service None
1 Year of Service
but less than 2 Years of Service 1 Week
2 Years of Service
but less than 5 Years of Service 2 Weeks
5 Years of Service
but less than 8 Years of Service 4 Weeks
8 Years of Service
but less than 10 Years of Service 6 Weeks
10 Years of Service
but less than 12 years of Service 8 Weeks
12 Years of Service and over 10 Weeks
Pay for each week of severance entitlement shall be paid at forty hours per week at the employee's straight time rate. 'Permanent layoff' as used in this Section shall mean a layoff that is contemplated by the Company at the time it is implemented to result, or does in fact result, in the affected employee losing work for a period of one year or more. Severance pay as hereinbefore provided shall be payable within ten days of the anniversary of the effective date of the employee's layoff, except that severance pay for employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be payable within ten days after the second anniversary of their layoffs. Permanently laid off employees entitled to severance pay pursuant to this Article may request early payment of their severance pay benefits within sixty days of their layoff (or, in the case of employees laid off prior to the effective date of this Agreement, within fourteen months of their layoff), and severance pay in such cases shall be payable within ten days of the Company's receipt of the request.
XXXIV. DURATION AND TERMINATION
This Agreement shall be in full force and effect, commencing _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y) up to and including _________,_________,_________(M/D/Y), and shall automatically renew itself from year to year thereafter, but either party may terminate it or propose modifications or amendments at the end of the contract expiration date and the end of each year thereafter, by giving the other party written notice by registered mail no earlier than ninety days nor later than sixty days before each automatic renewal date.
It is agreed that all rights and obligations arising under or provided in this Agreement shall expire on its termination date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands the day and year first above written.

BBB UNION, LOCAL 8-149,AFL-CIO AAA, INC.
By: _________ By: _________
Name: _______ Name: _______
Title: ______ Title: ______
COMMITTEE
By /s/ _________
By /s/ _________

Exclusive Agency Agreement


This agreement is made and entered into by and between the parties concerned on_________,_________ in _________, China on the basis of equality and mutual benefit to develop business on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon as follow:

1. The Parties Concerned

Party A:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

Party B:_________

Add:____________

Tel:_____________

2. Appointment

Party A hereby appoints Party B as its Exclusive Agent to solicit orders for the commodity stipulate in Article 3 from customers in the territory stipulated in Article 4,and Party B accepts and assumes such appointment.

3. Commodity

“Golden Fish” Brand Washing Machines

4. Territory

In Singapore only

5. Minimum turnover

Party B shall undertake to solicit orders for the above commodity from customers in the above territory during the effective period of this agreement for not less than USD 100,000,00.

6. Price and Payment

The price for each individual transaction shall be fixed through negotiations between Party B and the buyer, and subject to Party A's final confirmation.

Payment shall be made by confirmed, irrevocable L/C opened by the buyer in favor of Party A ,which shall reach Parth A 15 days before the date of shipment.

7. Exclusive Right

In consideration of the exclusive rights granted herein, Party A shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or export the commodity stipulated in Article 4 to customers in Singapore through channels other than Party B; Party B shall not sell, distribute or promote the sales of any products competitive with or similar to the above commodity in Singapore and shall not solicit or accept orders for the purpose of selling them outside Singapore. Party A shall refer to Party B any enquiries or orders for the commodity in question received by Party A from other firms in Singapore during the validity of this agreement.

8. Market Report

In order to keep Party A well informed of the prevailing market conditions, Party B should undertake to supply Party A, at least once a quarter or at any time when necessary, with market reports concerning changes of the local regulations in connection with the import and sales of the commodity covered by this agreement, local market tendency and the buyer's comments on quality, packing, price, etc. of the goods supplied by Party A under this agreement. Party B shall also supply party A with quotations and advertising materials on similar products of other suppliers.

9. Advertising and Expenses

Party A shall bear all expenses for advertising and publicity in connection with the commodity in question in Singapore within the validity of this agreement,and shall submit to Party A all audio and video materials intended for advertising for prior approval.

10. Commission

Party A shall pay Party B a commission of 5% on the net invoiced selling price on all orders directly obtained by Party B and accepted by party A. No commission shall be paid until Party A receives the full payment for each order.

11. Transactions Between Governmental Bodies

Transactions concluded between govenmental bodies of Party A and Party B shall not be restricted by the terms and conditions of this agreement, nor shall the amount of such transactions be counted as part of the turnover stipulated in Article 5.

12. Industrial Property Rights

Party B may use the trade-marks owned by Party A for the sale of the Washing Machines covered herein within the validity of this agreement, and shall acknowledge that all patents, trademarks, copy rights or any other industrial property rights used or embodied in the Washing Machines shall remain to be the sole properties of Party A. Should any infringement be found, Party B shall promptly notify and assist Party A to take steps to protect the latter's rights.

13. Validity of Agreement

This agreement, when duly signed by the both parties concerned, shall remain if force for 12 months from October 1, 1992 to September 30,1993, and it shall be extended for another 12 months upon expiration unless notice in writing is given to the contrary.

14. Termination

During the validity of this agreement, if either of the two parties is found to have violated the stipulations herein, the other party has the right to terminate this agreement.

15. Force Majeure

Either party shall not be held responsible for failure or delay to perform all or any part of this agreement due to flood, fire, earthquake, draught, war or any other events which could not be predicted, controlled, avoided or overcome by the relative party. However, the party affected by the event of Force Majeure shall inform the other party of its occurrence in writing as soon as possible and thereafter send a certificate of the event issued by the relevant authorities to the other party within 15 days after its occurrence.

16. Arbitration

All disputes arising from the performance of this agreement shall be settled through friendly negotiation. Should no settlement be reached throught negotiation, the case shallthen be submitted for arbitration to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing) and the rules of this Commission shall be applied. The award of the arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

Party A:_________ Party B:_________

  (Signature) (Signature)

Map Server License Agreement


BETWEEN AAA CORPORATION AND BBB, INC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (this 'Agreement') is entered into as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Effective Date') by and between AAA CORPORATION, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) ('AAA'), and BBB, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME)('BBB'), with reference to the following facts:
A. On or about _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), AAA caused the formation of BBB and transferred certain AAA assets to BBB in return for certain stock in BBB.
B. To assist BBB in its daytoday operations as a new corporate entity, AAA and BBB entered into a Map Server License Agreement dated as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y) (the 'Map Server Agreement'), pursuant to which AAA provided certain local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services to BBB, and BBB engaged AAA to provide such services.
C. The parties now desire to amend and supercede the Map Server License Agreement in its entirety by entering into this Amended and Restated Map Server License Agreement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
AAA Confidential
1. Definitions
1.1 'Affiliates' shall mean any entity in which, as of the Effective Date, BBB, directly or indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries, holds the beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity securities or interests, and only so long as such ownership continues.
1.2 'Data' shall mean all thirdparty data licensed by AAA and used in Maps and in the separate Data Dump, as of the Effective Date.
1.3 'Data Dump' shall mean the set of data including but not limited to Points of Interest, city, and region, generally containing unique identifiers such as the related geographic location, name, type, and language, and used in BBB's cataloging system to enable users to search by Point of Interest when performing a search on BBB.
1.4 'BBB Icon' shall mean any graphics or text, including, without limitation, persistent hyperlinks in the form of an BBB logo or other representational icon created by BBB for an BBB travel service or product.
1.5 'BBB Data Feed' shall mean the data supplied by BBB to AAA which contains the geographic location for any travel service offered by BBB, and the location where the BBB Icon or other representational icon, which includes an underlying URL to the BBB Web Site, should be placed on the MapPoint.Net Maps used by BBB.
1.6 'BBBMaps' shall mean the map services provided on the BBB Web Site, located at as of the Effective Date.
1.7 'BBB Updates' shall mean any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology that BBB or its Affiliates may have developed or will develop pursuant to this Agreement.
1.8 'BBB Web Site' means any web site owned or controlled by BBB or its Affiliates, which is accessed by users.
1.9 'Launch Date' shall mean the date that BBB begins providing travel services with maps served from computers hosted by AAA, and which in no event will be later than six (6) months after the Effective Date; provided AAA has meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
1.10 'Link' shall mean: (i) one or more hyperlinks located on the applicable areas of the MapPoint.Net Maps, or (iii) any other alternative method that enables a user to access BBB. Links also include any connection to BBB through the Internet, email, broadband, Internet II, wireless and handheld devices, cell phones, digital appliances, or other digital interactive means, networks, devices, or transmissions (whether existing now or in the future).
1.11 'Maps' shall mean collectively, the BBBMaps and the MapPoint.Net Maps.
1.12 'MapPoint.Net Maps' shall mean a reliable webenabled mapping solution developed by AAA that includes interactive maps, proximity searching and detailed driving directions.
1.13 'Point of Interest' shall mean those certain geographic locations, which include but are not limited to, such places as campgrounds, parks and other attractions or places of interest (e.g. the Empire State Building).
1.14 'Server Technology' shall mean the computer software owned by AAA and listed in Exhibit A.
1.15 'Service' shall mean the hosting of Server Technology, MapPoint.Net Maps, specifications and formats, and which includes without limitation the testing, implementation, hosting, maintenance, support, operation and update schedules, as applicable, for the Server Technology, Data and MapPoint.Net Maps as provided by AAA to BBB as a part of such service, which enables BBB to use the MapPoint.Net Maps as contemplated herein.
2. Delivery, Operation, and Use
2.1 Delivery. The parties acknowledge that BBB already has copies of the Server Technology and Data in its possession as of the Effective Date.
2.2 Updates and Error Corrections.
(a) AAA. AAA and BBB will cooperate to test the initial version of MapPoint.Net Maps that AAA is operating as of the Effective Date in a beta environment to ascertain if it meets the stability requirements outlined in Exhibit C hereto. Each upgrade thereto shall be tested in a similar fashion. The parties will cooperate to ensure that the beta testing of the initial version and any upgrade thereto is concluded in a timely manner.
(b) MapPoint.Net Map Updates. When and if AAA makes commercially available during the term of this Agreement any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the MapPoint.Net Maps ('MapPoint.Net Map Updates'), AAA shall promptly make available such MapPoint.Net Map Updates to BBB on servers hosted by AAA to the extent permitted under applicable license agreements. Upon BBB's commencement of use, such MapPoint.Net Updates shall be considered part of the MapPoint.Net Maps for purposes of this Agreement. BBB must commence using each MapPoint.Net Map Update within sixty (60) days after it is first made commercially available; provided they meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
(c) BBB. In the event that BBB or its Affiliate develops any updates, upgrades, error corrections, or other improvements to the Server Technology, BBB shall promptly deliver, or cause its Affiliate to deliver, such BBB Updates to AAA.
2.3 Support and Operation. Prior to the Launch Date, BBB shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the BBBMaps. Effective as of the Launch Date, AAA shall be solely responsible for the support and operation of the Maps, and agrees to provide the Service to BBB in accordance with Exhibit C hereto with at least the same service level that AAA will provide to the AAA properties currently using BBBMaps backend map server, which shall be no less than a commercially reasonable service level. As of the Effective Date, these AAA properties include CarPoint, Home Advisor, MS Commute, MSN Mobile, MSNBC and Yellow Pages (the 'AAA Backend Properties'). AAA shall insure that it has the server infrastructure necessary to deliver stable service and handle the volume of calls/queries to BBB's MapPoint.Net Maps servers that will be generated by usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4, and that such service shall be delivered in a high grade and professional manner and in accordance with this Section 2.3 and Exhibit C. AAA will provide BBB with ninety (90) days advanced notice should AAA change or alter in any way the underlying latitude/longitude system provided at the time of launch of MapPoint.Net Maps on BBB. The parties will implement a process for BBB's transition to use of MapPoint.Net Maps as set forth in Section 2.5 below.
2.4 BBB will make a commercially reasonable effort to provide AAA with reasonably accurate quarterly forecast of usage and sixty (60) days advance notice of any known significant usage volume increases and major releases.
2.5 Transition Plan. The parties agree that BBB's transition to MapPoint.Net Maps will proceed as follows:
(a) Prior to the Launch Date, AAA shall provide BBB with an explanation of the services and operating procedures not specified on Exhibit C that AAA will provide.
(b) AAA shall resolve the four (4) bugs which are listed on Exhibit E hereto prior to the Launch Date.
(c) AAA and BBB will test the initial version of MapPoint.Net pursuant to Section 2.1 above.
(d) BBB must give AAA at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of the actual Launch Date.
(e) The current map server URLs owned by BBB and used for providing Maps to certain BBBMaps users will be allowed to reference BBB's dedicated cluster for MapPoint.Net. BBB will put the redirect in place to the AAA servers.
2.6 Use of Maps.
(a) The parties acknowledge that AAA is already using BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions in the AAA Backend Properties. AAA agrees that by the Launch Date, it shall cease use of BBBMaps on the AAA Backend Properties, and in any and all current and future version of any AAA software programs (currently used in Front Page, MacOffice, Entourage, and AAA Outlook). Notwithstanding the foregoing, AAA shall not be required to cease use of BBBMaps in AAA Hotmail, AAA IESearch or MSN, or to stop linking to the front end of an BBB Web Site; provided, however, that following the Launch Date, BBB shall not be obligated to provide mapping services to any AAA property or product.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the parties agree and acknowledge that BBB shall not be required to use or continue to use all or any part of the MapPoint.Net Maps or the Service provided by AAA until six (6) months after the Effective Date, provided that such MapPoint.Net Maps or Service meet the requirements of Exhibit C and the parties have not mutually agreed to postpone such use.
2.7 MapPoint.Net Map Functionality. Within one (1) year following the Effective Date, AAA, at its sole cost and expense, will develop for MapPoint.Net Maps functionality which enables BBB, at its option, to display within such MapPoint.Net Maps, an BBB Icon or a icon rendered by AAA to represent the specific location of a travel service made [**] available by BBB ('Representational Icon'), which will contain a Link back to an BBB Web Site determined by BBB.
2.8 CoBranding.
(a) Except pursuant to certain BBB agreements where Maps are not branded with BBB Icons, the parties agree that all Maps used by BBB will contain an BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net logo designated by AAA from time to time. The parties agree that in any case where a Map is not branded with an BBB logo, BBB shall not be required to brand such Map with a AAA logo. In no event shall the AAA MapPoint.Net logo contain designations such as or marks of similar intent that serve as a protocol designator, or function as a clickable link to any Web page. The BBB Icon and the MapPoint.Net icon will not include any third party marks or advertisements. The BBB Icon shall appear in close proximity to MapPoint.Net logo, with the placement and size of such cobranding to be commercially reasonable and mutually agreeable to the parties. A representative sample of the Map cobranding is attached as Exhibit G hereto.
(b) AAA shall maintain the BBB Icon provided to AAA by BBB for such cobranding or any addition to or substitute thereof that BBB may provide to AAA from timetotime during the term of this Agreement. In the event BBB provides AAA with a new or modified BBB Icon for such cobranding, AAA shall implement the new BBB Icon within thirty (30) days following receipt of the update from BBB. AAA shall not use any BBB Icon in any other manner or for any other purpose without prior written approval by BBB. BBB shall not use any trademark of AAA in any manner or for any purpose without prior written approval by AAA.
2.9 Dataset Updates. AAA will use commercially reasonable efforts to update the Data on a quarterly basis.
2.10 Point of Interest Display. BBB shall have the right to select which Point of Interest will be displayed on the MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA to BBB in accordance with this Agreement.
3. License
3.1 Server Technology. AAA hereby grants to BBB and its Affiliates a perpetual license (i) to make, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, and translate the Server Technology in object code and source code form, and (ii) to distribute (directly and indirectly), transmit, display and perform publicly, license, rent, lease, and sell the Server Technology in connection with Maps in object code form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BBB and its Affiliates shall have no right to distribute, transmit, display, license, rent, lease or sell in any manner any portion of the Server Technology implemented in the AAA Geography Product Unit's retail products or internal tools without the prior approval of AAA. Additionally, BBB agrees, for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates, that BBB and its Affiliates shall not license the Server Technology, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's (___)or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.2 Third Party Exclusions. For twentyfour (24) months after the Effective Date, AAA agrees that it will not with respect to local street maps and driving directions and other mapping services, provide such mapping services to the following entities through a direct contractual agreement with such entities: Hotel Reservations Network, Travelocity, Orbitz, Cendant (but only with regard to Cendant's travelrelated services and businesses), Priceline, or any entity that, at the time such agreement is executed, is a wholly owned subsidiary of any of the foregoing entities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Travelocity shall remain an excluded party for the term of this Agreement. In addition, AAA agrees that BBB shall be a provider of travel booking, travel service or travel Point of Interest data that is featured and/or integrated into the Maps provided and/or developed by the AAA Geography Product Unit.
3.3 Data. As of the Effective Date, AAA has licenses to use the Data for AAA's own business purposes. To the extent AAA has the right to sublicense rights in Data to BBB for BBB's business purposes, AAA hereby does so sublicense the Data for use in connection with Maps and the Data Dump. To the extent AAA does not have the right to sublicense Data to BBB and to the extent such sublicense is necessary for the purposes of the Services described in Section 2.3 above, AAA shall use reasonable efforts to assist BBB to obtain licenses in such Data, at BBB's expense. Additionally, BBB agrees that it shall not license the Data, in any manner, to third parties that produce products or services that are competitive with the AAA Geography Product Unit's or the Learning Business Unit's products or services without the prior approval of AAA, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
3.4 BBB Updates to Server Technology. BBB, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably conveys and assigns to AAA, and agrees to assign to AAA, all right, title and interest in any copyrights in the BBB Updates, and in all renewals and extensions of those copyrights that may be secured under the laws now or hereafter in force and effect in the United States of America or in any other country or countries.
4. Payments
4.1 Server Technology. AAA shall provide the licenses in the Server Technology to BBB free of charge. Commencing upon the Launch Date, BBB may, but shall not be required to, develop BBB Updates to the Server Technology, but to the extent they are developed they shall promptly be delivered to AAA.
4.2 Payment Schedules. The payment schedules for services delivered under this Agreement and prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement are on Exhibit F attached hereto.
4.3 Most Favored Nation. AAA will not charge BBB a price for Services rendered under this Agreement, or provide BBB with a level of service, that is less favorable than the rates charged or the services provided to any third party unless such third party agrees to use MapPoint.Net Maps more frequently than BBB's then current actual usage of MapPoint.Net Maps.
5. Confidential Information. The parties understand and acknowledge that each of them (and their respective employees, consultants and subcontractors) may have disclosed to it, in connection with the rendition of services and performance of their obligations of this Agreement, confidential and/or proprietary information of the other party. The terms and conditions of that certain NonDisclosure Agreement between the parties, dated _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), shall apply to all such confidential and proprietary information. AAA and BBB each agree that the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including its attachments, will be deemed to constitute, and be treated as, confidential information pursuant to this Section 5.
6. Warranties, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability
6.1 Warranties.
(a) AAA represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder; and
(b) AAA represents and warrants that it has and will not grant any rights in the Server Technology to any third party that are inconsistent with the rights granted to BBB herein.
(c) BBB represents and warrants that it is a corporation duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of _________(PLACENAME) and has authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
(D) Except as provided in this section 6.1, each party disclaims all warranties, either express, implied or statutory, including but not limited to any (if any) implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of lack of viruses. The server technology, data, bbb updates, and maps are provided as is with all faults, and no warranties or promises are made that licensed materials will work or work for any particular purpose. Also, there is no warranty of title, authority, or noninfringement in the licensed materials.
6.2 Indemnification.
(a) AAA.
(i) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless BBB and BBB's directors, officers, employees, and agents (each, an 'BBB Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including (___) reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such BBB Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that the Server Technology infringe any copyright or patent or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party ('BBB Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any Server Technology or any portion thereof, AAA shall notify BBB promptly and may, at AAA's expense, replace or modify the Server Technology or portion thereof with a version that is non infringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) AAA shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent an BBB Claim arises out of an BBB Claimant's continuing use of infringing Server Technology after (a) AAA has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the BBB Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event an BBB Claim is made or filed against an BBB Claimant, the BBB Claimant shall promptly notify AAA of the same in writing, and AAA shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the BBB Claim at its expense. AAA shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the BBB Claimant incurred after AAA assumes defense of the BBB Claim, but the BBB Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. AAA will not be responsible for any settlement made by BBB or any BBB Claimant without AAA's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the BBB Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the BBB Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB and any BBB Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at BBB's expense, to help AAA defend, compromise or settle such BBB Claim.
(v) AAA shall indemnify and hold harmless any BBB Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps, including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on BBB's net income or with respect to BBB's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of AAA. AAA agrees to indemnify, defend and hold BBB harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions associated with the use by AAA of BBBMaps notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
(b) BBB.
(i) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless AAA, its Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, and agents of the foregoing (each, an 'AAA Claimant'), from any and all third party claims, demands, actions or causes of action, costs, liabilities, losses, expenses, damages, judgments, awards, charges and amounts paid in settlement (including reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expert witness fees) brought against such AAA Claimant to the extent it is based upon a claim that an BBB Icon or the BBB Updates infringe any copyright, trademark, trade dress, privacy right, publicity right or patent, or misappropriate any trade secret of a third party, or constitutes unfair competition or unfair trade practices ('AAA Claims').
(ii) In the event any third party asserts a claim of infringement with respect to any BBB Icon or BBB Updates or any portion thereof, BBB shall notify AAA promptly and may, at BBB's expense, replace or modify the BBB Icon or BBB Updates or portion thereof with a version that is noninfringing, provided that the replacement or modified version has substantially equivalent functionality to the version being replaced.
(iii) BBB shall have no obligation to indemnify under this Section 6.2 to the extent a AAA Claim arises out of a AAA Claimant's continuing use of infringing BBB Icon or BBB Updates after (a) BBB has provided a noninfringing replacement with substantially equivalent functionality, and (b) the AAA Claimant has had a reasonable amount of time to test and implement the replacement version.
(iv) In the event a AAA Claim is made or filed against a AAA Claimant, the AAA Claimant shall promptly notify BBB of the same in writing, and BBB shall defend, compromise, and/or settle the AAA Claim at its expense. BBB shall not be responsible for the expenses, including counsel fees, of the AAA Claimant incurred after BBB assumes defense of the AAA Claim, but the AAA Claimant may participate therein and retain counsel at its own expense. BBB will not be responsible for any settlement made by AAA or any AAA Claimant without BBB's written permission, which will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. BBB will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement affecting the AAA Claimant, to the extent that the judgment or settlement involves more than the payment of money, without the prior consent of the AAA Claimant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. AAA and any AAA Claimant shall provide information, assistance and authority, at AAA's expense, to help BBB defend, compromise or settle such AAA Claim.
(v) BBB shall indemnify and hold harmless any AAA Claimant from and against any foreign, U.S. federal, state, local, municipal or other governmental taxes, duties, levies, fees, excises or tariffs, arising as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) including, without limitation, any state or local sales or use taxes or any value added tax or business transfer tax now or hereafter imposed on or with respect to such transactions. All such taxes (and any penalties, interest, or other additions to any such __ taxes), with the exception of taxes imposed on AAA's net income or with respect to AAA's property ownership, shall be the financial responsibility of BBB. BBB agrees to indemnify, defend and hold AAA harmless from any claims, causes of action, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and any other liabilities of any nature whatsoever related to such taxes. This section shall govern the treatment of all taxes arising as a result of or in connection with this Agreement (other than with respect to the use of and payments for BBBMaps) notwithstanding any other section of this Agreement.
6.3 Data. The parties agree that BBB shall benefit from any warranties and/or indemnification for Data provided by Data licensors under AAA's license agreements for Data, to the extent such warranties and/or indemnification extend to BBB.
6.4 Limitation of liability. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and except with respect to any breach of confidentiality owed under section 5, in no event shall either party be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way related to this agreement, even if the party been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. term
7.1 Term. This Agreement shall take effect upon the Effective Date and shall continue in full force and effect, unless earlier terminated as provided herein, for a period of four (4) years. Thereafter, this Agreement shall be automatically renewed and continue in full force and effect for additional one year periods through each subsequent anniversary of the Effective Date unless either party gives at least sixty (60) days notice prior to the beginning of such renewal term that such party is terminating this Agreement.
7.2 Termination for Breach. In the event either party materially fails to perform or comply with this Agreement or any provision thereof, and fails to remedy the default within sixty (60) days after the receipt of notice to that effect, then the other party shall have the right, at its sole option and upon written notice to the defaulting party, to terminate this Agreement upon written notice. Any notice of breach hereunder shall be prominently labeled 'NOTICE OF DEFAULT,' and if to AAA, shall be copied to AAA's Law & Corporate Affairs Department, attn. U.S. Legal Group.
7.3 BBB Termination for Convenience. BBB may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon ninety (90) days written notice to AAA; provided, however, that upon receipt of such notice AAA's obligations under Section 3.2 (Third Party Exclusions) and Section 4.5 (Most Favored Nation) shall immediately terminate.
7.4 AAA Termination for Convenience. AAA may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause upon one hundred and eighty (180) days prior written notice to BBB.
7.5 Transition Upon Termination. If AAA exits the mapping business, AAA shall reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to BBB and any third parties authorized by BBB to undertake performance of services necessary for the continued and uninterrupted provision of MapPoint.Net Maps to BBB.
7.6 Remedies Cumulative. The rights and remedies provided in this section shall not be exclusive and are in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by law or this Agreement.
7.7 Survival. The following provisions shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement: Sections 1, 2.2(c), 3.1, 3.4, 4.1, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
8. general
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes and terminates any and all prior agreements or contracts, oral or written, entered into between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.
8.2 Amendments. This Agreement shall not be amended or otherwise modified except by a written agreement dated subsequent to the date of this Agreement and signed on behalf of AAA and BBB by their respective duly authorized representatives.
8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of ________ (PLACENAME).
8.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement, or any portion thereof, to any third party unless the other party expressly consents to such assignment in writing, which consent may be given or withheld in the sole discretion of the applicable party whose consent is requested. For the purposes of this Agreement, a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization, or a transfer or sale of a controlling interest in a party's stock, or of all or substantially all of its assets shall be deemed to be an assignment.
8.5 Notices. All notices in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed given as of the day they are sent by electronic transmission, sent by facsimile or deposited with a commercial courier for delivery to other party at the following addresses:
AAA: AAA Corporation
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention:____
With copy to:_
BBB: BBB, Inc.
________ (ADDRESS)
Tel: _________
Fax: _________
Attention: ___
or to such other address and/or telex and facsimile number as the party to receive the notice or request so designates by written notice to the other.
8.6 No Waiver. No waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
8.7 Savings Clause. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
8.8 Further Assurances. Each party agrees to take such further action and execute, deliver and/or file such documents or instruments as are necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of this Agreement.
8.9 Section Headings. The section headings used in this Agreement are intended for convenience only and shall not be deemed to supersede or modify any provisions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
AAA CORPORATION BBB, INC.
By:_________ By:_________
Name:_______ Name:_______
Title:______ Title:______
(___)=AAA Confidential
Exhibit A
Server Technology
The Server Technology is composed of the following seven elements:
1. Routing Object and Routing Files and Journey Object The Routing Object includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary, route data storage and route calculation technologies. Routing Data is stored in a series of highly compressed runtime Routing Files that are used to calculate driving directions. Streets and highways are stored as nodes and links with attributes such as speed and turn restrictions attached. The routing Object takes as an input, a series of locations defined by latitude and longitude coordinates. The Routing Object calculates the best route between these locations based on user preferences for speed, distance or road types. The output of the Routing object is a structured list of the nodes and links that comprise the calculated route. This output may be used by AAA's Journey Object to build a list of driving directions. The output may also be used to highlight a route on a map.
2. Map Designs AAA's Map Designs define how data will appear and behave within it's proprietary, runtime map files. Each map contains one or more Map Designs. Each of these designs is implemented as a separate map style available to end users. Map Designs include information on the color, thickness, style, and fonts of various data elements. In addition, the Map Design defines whether features show up at all, and if they do, whether they appear with a label. Map Designs also define what happens to a feature when it is selected (label is made bold, shape highlights, map zooms in, etc.) The Online Map Design includes color and symbol definitions that produce the most attractive map available for a Web Page. The Online Map Design adjusts the settings for window size constraints and palette color limitations found on most Web Pages.
3. GeoMisc code (ex. dib to gif conversion) GeoMisc is a Project in the Geography Product Unit's Visual Source Safe Code Database that contains miscellaneous, lowlevel functions that support mapping applications. Many of these functions are required for Geography Products and the Map Server System to work properly. For example, the .GIF files that MSS serves rely on the DIB to GIF conversion function that is contained in the GeoMisc Project.
4. Map Server System (MSS) The Map Server System includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary HTML map controls and map server technologies. MSS allows end users to find places, get driving directions and navigate maps over the Internet. MSS relies on other server technologies such as MOBB and the Routing Object for data storage, route calculation and map rendering. MSS provides a Webbased user interface that allows users to interact with routing and map files on a remote server.
5. Alexandria Alexandria is the data warehouse that stores all of the map data used in AAA's proprietary, runtime map files. Alexandria stores MSowned map data and licensed data from AAA's vendors. Databases in Alexandria store both geometry and attribute data. For example, a single Entity record could be represented by a point, several lines and an area at different map scales. In addition, Alexandria databases might store information about that entity's location, name, alternate names, and any other available attributes. All Alexandria entities are assigned unique Identification numbers that can be used to look up available geometry or attribute information.
6. MOBB and .MAD files MOBB, also known as 'The Map Object' includes all of the specifications, source code, object code and runtime files that define and control AAA's proprietary map data storage, retrieval and display technologies. MOBB data is stored in files with the extension: .MAD. Examples of MOBB features include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Smart searching algorithms for finding places and addresses
(b) Dynamic map labeling technology that supports all types of features (including street labels) and languages (including Japanese)
(c) Multiple mapstyle support that supports map customization while maximizing data compression
(d) Multiple resolutions of raster and vector data support.
(e) Support for all types of geometry including points (ex. Hotels), lines (ex. Streets), areas (ex. Countries), and complex polygons (ex. Rivers)
(f) Multiple map projections
7. MSowned map data AAA maintains independent copyright ownership for much of the geographic data that it includes in licensed products and uses internally. This includes all of the data implemented on the Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2000 map with the exception of parks licensed from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Examples of this data include worldwide roads, political boundaries, geographic regions, terrain maps and city insets. In addition, the MS owned map data includes a worldwide database of Populated Places and a detailed hydrology database for the United States.
8. Geocoding Tool An administrative tool being developed by AAA will enable BBB to: (a) pinpoint a location including Point of Interest based on address and other search criteria including visually on a map, and (b) to identify the of the location as it relates to the underlying MapPoint.Net Maps.
Exhibit B
Data Services
AAA's Data Services include the development of runtime map and routing files for products that use technologies developed by the Geography Product Unit and products that hold licensees to use the map data contained within them. 
These files are developed primarily for use in products produced by AAA's Geography and Reference product units. However, to the extent that Map Designs allow AAA to create a single, customized Online Map Style within each map file, MS will complete this work as part of its Data Services.
Exhibit C
Service Requirements
Uptime: Maps shall be available to BBB 99.9% of the time provided usage levels forecasted quarterly by BBB pursuant to Section 2.4.are reasonably accurate. Calculation of this average availability will be based on availability during each 30day billing period. Scheduled downtime for maintenance of up to three (3) hours per monthly billing period shall not be counted as downtime for the purpose of this calculation, provided AAA provides BBB with prior written notice as soon as practicable of (and in no event less than twentyfour (24) hours before) such scheduled downtime for maintenance. In addition, downtime reasonably necessary to implement any upgrades and downtime caused by outages and other factors beyond the reasonable control of AAA shall not be counted as downtime for purposes of this calculation. All other time during which the Maps are not available shall be counted as downtime.
Upgrades: In no event shall BBB be required to use an unreleased version of either any AAA product from another division or third party software product (collectively, 'Dogfood'). AAA shall obtain prior written approval from BBB before requiring BBB to use Dogfood.
1. For all Major Releases (as defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with a schedule for the release and reasonable time to review and comment upon the timing and feature set incorporated in AAA's planned release;
(b) Design, develop and release technology that is backwards compatible to the last Major Release of MapPoint.Net Maps;
(c) Provide BBB within a reasonable time prior to commercial release with production access to a production level beta version of the Major Release;
(d) Demonstrate to BBB that the Major Release meets uptime requirements, mutually agreeable roundtrip time requirements, and BBB's capacity requirements, which shall be determined by the forecasting information provide by BBB to AAA in accordance with Section 2.4.
(e) Deliver to BBB technical documentation related to using new or changed features within the Major Release; For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Major Release' shall mean a release of MapPoint.Net Maps which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the tenths digit in the MapPoint.Net Maps version number ____.
2. For all Update and Upgrade Releases (as both are defined below) of MapPoint.Net Maps, AAA shall:
(a) Provide BBB with support to resolve Critical Bugs (as defined in the Customer Support section below) that may result from the use of the Update and Upgrade Releases into the BBB production environment;
(b) AAA shall provide BBB with reasonable notice of any Update and Upgrade Releases. For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
'Update Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the right of the tenths digit(s) in the product version number ___.
'Upgrade Release' shall mean a release of a software product which is designated by AAA, or should have been designated by AAA pursuant to industry standards, as a change in the digit(s) to the left of the decimal digit(s) in the product version number ____.
Reports: AAA shall provide BBB access to mutually agreeable activity reports including backend reporting such as hits to the servers by transaction type (map, route, find).
Customer Support:
Standard
AAA will provide enduser support  unless otherwise provided by BBB. All end user email requests and responses are communicated in English ONLY, with a response time goal of twentyfour (24) hours or less.
Service and support will be delivered down to the switch port level, and will provide services such as 24X7 monitoring of network functionality, notification of loss of said functionality in such an event, and troubleshooting response and clearly defined escalation path to such loss of said functionality. Notification and troubleshooting response to meet the following conditions:
1. 'Critical Bugs'. For the purposes of this Agreement, a 'Critical Bug' shall mean cases where BBB cannot conduct commerce or where Maps are down and not functioning due to problem caused by AAA. In the case of a Critical Bug, AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Critical Bug 24x7.
2. 'Severe Bugs'. For purposes of this Agreement, a 'Severe Bug' shall mean a problem caused by AAA where there is grossly inaccurate map data, such as New York appearing in Canada, bugs that have a material impact on BBB's ability to conduct commerce in a reliable fashion, or when a Point of Interest is more than one (1) mile from its accurate global position (this does include the hotel database). In the case of a Severe Bug AAA's Geography Product Unit and BBB will designate resources to continuously work on such Severe Bug Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00PM (PST).
3. AAA will provide BBB with the means to submit and retrieve update status for Critical Bugs and any other bugs deemed material to BBB, in it sole opinion.
4. AAA will assign an Account Manager for general requests and questions, which shall be available by email and phone Monday Friday, 8:00AM 5:00PM (PST). The parties shall provide each other with an email address and other contract information in connection with the resolution of Critical and Severe Bugs.
Exhibit E
Known Bugs
BBBBug39691: MOBB8.5: Find Server IIS dies after a long period (approx. 48 hours) of stress
BBBBug38960: MOBB8.5: Front end returning error message for route that should succeed.
BBBBug37133: MOBB8.5: GEOBLK: Maps and Find Servers: Took significant perf.
hit with MOBB 8 due to data files.
BBBBug42867: MOBB8.5: Geo proposed fix for Intl address crash (related to #39691)
Exhibit F
Payment Schedule
1. The parties agree that, unless otherwise specified: (i) the payment schedule in Section 2 (AAA) and Section 3 (BBB) below (together, 'Existing Payment Schedule') shall apply to charges for Server Technology, Data and BBBMaps services provide by the applicable party until _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 11:59 P.M.('TrueUp Date'); and (ii) the revised payment schedule in Section 5 below ('Revised Payment Schedule') shall apply to Services provided by AAA to BBB which commence as of _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), 12:00 A.M. (midnight).
2. Existing Payment Schedule AAA.
BBBMaps Services/Use of BBBMaps: BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AAA shall be deemed paid in full for AAA's use of BBBMaps through the TrueUp Date.
3. Existing Payment Structure BBB.
(a) Data Services. BBB and AAA agree that as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, BBB shall be deemed paid in full for BBB's use of Data Services provided by AAA through the TrueUp Date. For the purposes of this Section 3.3, 'Data Services' shall mean the services described in Exhibit B with respect to the Data which AAA has provided to BBB through its Geography Product Unit.
(b) Data. BBB shall pay AAA for certain third party license fees or royalties incurred by AAA for sublicensing Data in accordance with a mutually agreed upon payment matrix, as represented by the sample calculation on Attachment 1 hereto, from _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y)until commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule.
4. Revised Payment Schedule.
(a) Following the TrueUp Date and in total and final consideration for MapPoint.Net Maps provided by AAA on a dedicated server cluster as set forth in this Agreement, BBB or its designated Affiliate shall pay AAA transaction fees on all Route Transactions (as defined below), Location Lookup Transactions (as defined below) and Map Transactions (as defined below), (collectively, 'Transaction Fees') completed from such dedicated server cluster during the term of this Agreement, in accordance with the following payment schedule:
(i) Route Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$,_________, per Route Transaction ('Route Transaction Fees').
(ii) Location Lookup Transaction Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________, per Location Lookup Transaction ('Location Lookup Transaction Fees').
(iii) Map Transactions Fees. BBB shall pay AAA US$, ________ per Map Transaction ('Map Transaction Fees').
(b) AAA shall bill BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, fifteen (15) days after the end of each fiscal quarter with respect to any Transaction Fees that may be owed by BBB or its designated Affiliate as described in Section 4(a). AAA shall provide BBB or its designated Affiliate, as appropriate, with a statement which shall contain information sufficient to discern how the payment was computed. Payments shall be due within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter for which an invoice is provided. For the purposes hereof, a 'fiscal year' shall end on _________,_________,_________(M,D,Y), and a 'fiscal quarter' shall mean one of the four (4) threemonth periods in a fiscal year, as customarily determined by BBB.
(c) For the purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:
(i) 'Route Transaction' means any one or more of the following: (x) text and/or voice driving directions from a single origin (but not an origin constituting a sensorgenerated location of the enduser's computer device) to any single destination directly or through one or more waypoints, (y) the travel time and/or distance for all or any portion of such route, and (z) a raster image depicting a map including the route or a series of an average of seven (7) raster images respectively depicting maps including successive portions of the route.
(ii) 'Location Lookup Transaction' means find information in the form of either the street address or intersection of streets at which a point of interest or address, identified based on a search requested by the enduser, is located, and additionally may include a raster image depicting such location on a map.
(iii) 'Map Transaction' means a single raster image depicting a map for a predetermined or enduserspecified geographical area (but not in any way based on a sensorgenerated location).
5. Revised Payment Schedule Payment Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, upon commencement of the Revised Payment Schedule, BBB shall not be required to pay to AAA any Transaction Fees generated by any AAA Backend Properties, as defined in Section 2.3 of the Agreement, who use BBBMaps to serve local street maps and/or provide driving directions on their respective Web sites. The Backend Properties will be identified on a quarterly report provided by BBB to AAA, in accordance with Section 5(b).
Attachment 1
Representative Sample of Payment Matrix
Pricing Model for Transactions
Gross Transactions
Sum of Page Views Date
Domain _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________
Grand Total _________ _________ ______________
Assumptions
Average Maps per Route _________
Average Maps per Find __________
World data factor _________%
Population Coverage (pro rata) _________%
Per Transaction Volume
Price Discount
Adjusted
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Map
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Route
Transactions(SF) _________ _________ _________%
Priced
Transactions _________(M,Y) _________(M,Y) Grand Total per trans fee
Location Lookup
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Map
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Route
Transactions(SF) $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Total Navtech
Fee $,_________ $,_________ $,_________ $,_________
Exhibit G
Representative Sample of MapPoint.Net Map
This representative sample depicts treatment of a BBB logo and a AAA logo, and the placement of a AAA copyright notice.


PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE


This agreement is made on between

(1) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Availability for Sale No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor');

(2) (Holder(s) of Hong Kong Identity Card(s) No(s).

and Holder of Certificate of Eligibility to Purchase No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Purchaser'); and

(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of

(hereinafter called 'the Vendor’s Agent') and(Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Purchaser’s Agent').]OR

[(3) (Holder of Business Registration Certificate No.) of (hereinafter called 'the Agent').]

Now it is hereby agreedas follows:

1. The Vendor agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees to purchase *[through the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent/the Agent,] the Property known as(hereinafter called 'the Property') subject to the terms and conditions herein contained.

2. The purchase price of the Property is HK$ which shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor in the following manner:

(a) Initial deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of this Agreement;

(b) Further deposit of HK$ shall be paid upon signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase on or before ; and

(c) Balance of purchase price of HK$ shall be paid upon completion which should take place on or before .

3. Completion shall take place on or before and the Property is to be sold to the Purchaser subject to Clause 17 hereof but otherwise free from incumbrances.

4. Upon completion, the Vendor shall deliver vacant possession of the Property to the Purchaser.

5. The Purchaser shall not sub-sell the Property or transfer the benefit of this Agreement, whether by way of a direct or indirect reservation, right of first refusal, option, trust or power of attorney, nomination or any other method, arrangement or document of any description, conditional or unconditional, or enter into any agreement so to do before the completion of the sale and purchase of the Property.

When fixing the date of signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the Purchaser and Vendor should refer to Clause 8 below.

6. The Vendor and the Purchaser agree that they shall separately appoint their own solicitors.

The Vendor shall be represented by and the Purchaser shall be represented by .

7. Each party shall bear its own legal costs. Subject to Clause 11 hereof, all stamp duty shall be borne by the Purchaser.

8. The Purchaser agrees to apply to the Housing Authority for a Letter of Nomination within one month from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

9. In order to enable the Purchaser to apply for the Letter of Nomination, the Vendor agrees to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors within days from the date of this Agreement but in any event no later than seven working days prior to the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase.

10. Should the Purchaser fail to obtain a Letter of Nomination (otherwise due to the Vendor’sfailure to tender the said Certificate of Availability for Sale pursuant to Clause 9 above) before the signing of the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase or fail to complete the purchase in manner herein contained or fail to observe any of the terms contained in this Agreement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Vendor and the Vendor shall then be entitled at his sole discretion to sell the Property to other eligible purchasers as he thinks fit but without prejudice to the Vendor''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Purchaser.

11. Should the Vendor fail to tender the original of the Certificate of Availability for Sale to the Purchaser or his solicitors according to Clause 9 of this Agreement or fail to complete the sale in the manner herein contained or fail to comply with any of the terms of this Agreement, the Vendor shall forthwith return the deposit to the Purchaser and shall pay to the Purchaser a sum equivalent to the amount of the initial deposit as liquidated damages and shall also reimburse the Purchaser with the payment of stamp duty but without prejudice to the Purchaser''s right to claim specific performance and damages from the Vendor.

12. In consideration of the services rendered by the Vendor’s Agent and the Purchaser’s Agent,entitled to receive HK$___________________from the Vendor and the Purchaser’s Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

OR In consideration of the services rendered by the Agent, the Agent shall be entitled to receive HK$ from the Vendor and HK$ from the Purchaser as commission. Such commission shall be paid on or before .

13. If in any case either the Vendor or the Purchaser fails to complete the sale and purchase in the manner herein mentioned, the defaulting party shall compensate at once the Vendor’s Agent HK$ and the Purchaser’s Agent HK$ /the Agent HK$ as liquidated damages.

14. The Property is sold to the Purchaser on an 'as is' basis.

15. This Agreement supersedes all prior negotiations, representation, understanding and agreements between the parties hereto.

16. It is hereby agreed that the sale and purchase hereof shall include the chattels, furniture and fittings as set out in the Remarks.

17. The Purchaser acknowledges that he is purchasing the Property subject to the liability for payment of premium as set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance Cap.283. The Vendor declares that for the purpose of calculation of the amount of premium under paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance, the Initial Market Value and the Purchase Price of the Property are HK$ and HK$ respectively.

18. If the Purchaser is more than one person, they shall hold the Property as Joint Tenants.

19. It is hereby agreed that *[the Vendor’s Agent is the agent of the Vendor only and the Purchaser’s Agent is the agent of the Purchaser only/the Agent is the agent for both the Vendor and the Purchaser/for the Vendor only/for the Purchaser only.]

20. It is declared by the Vendor and the Purchaser that they are selling and purchasing the Property under the HOS Secondary Market Scheme of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and acknowledge that this Agreement is subject to the terms, covenants and conditions mentioned in the Schedule to the Housing Ordinance (Cap.283) and any amendments thereto.

21. The sale and purchase hereof is also subject to the additional terms (if any) set out in the Schedule hereto and in the event of any contradiction between such additional terms and the prescribed terms and provisions of this provisional agreement and the Formal Agreement for Sale and Purchase, the prescribed terms and conditions shall prevail.

22. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between the parties hereto.

23. This Agreement should be interpreted in its English version in case of ambiguities.

24. Remarks :

SCHEDULE

Additional Terms

Signed by the Vendor :_______________________

Signed by the Purchaser:_____________________

Signed by the Vendor’s Agent :______________

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individual) No. :___________________________

Signed by the Purchaser’s Agent

Estate Agent’s Licence

(Individuall No. :___________________________

OR

Signed by the Agent :________________________

Estate Agent’s Licence

Individual No. :_____________________________

Received from the Purchaser the initial deposit of HK$ (cheque no. )

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