There are no disputes, material employee grievances or material disciplinary actions pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened between the Company and any employees of the Company (collectively, the “Employees”). The Company has complied in all respects with all provisions of all laws relating to the employment of labor and has no liability for any arrears of wages or taxes or penalties for failure to comply with any such laws. The Company has no knowledge of any organizational efforts presently being made or threatened by or on behalf of any labor union with respect to any Employees.

Labor Matters. As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against ESI or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of ESI, threatened. Except as provided on [Schedule 6.22], the hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters, except for such violations that could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. All payments due from ESI or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or for which any claim may be made against ESI or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of ESI or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, except for such failures that could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which ESI or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is bound.

There are no collective bargaining agreements or Multiemployer Plans covering the employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date and neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary has suffered any strikes, walkouts, work stoppages or other material labor difficulty within the last five (5) years preceding the Closing Date.

There are no collective bargaining agreements or Multiemployer Plans covering the employees of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, other than as set forth in [Schedule 6.17] hereto. No Credit Party nor any of its Subsidiaries has suffered any strikes, walkouts, work stoppages or other material labor difficulty within the five years preceding the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, other than as set forth in [Schedule 6.17] hereto. No Responsible Officer of any Credit Party has knowledge of any potential or pending strike, walkout or work stoppage which would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Labor Matters. Neither BRPA nor Merger Sub is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or other labor union contract applicable to persons employed by BRPA or Merger Sub and BRPA does not know of any activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize any such employees. Other than as described in the BRPA SEC Reports, neither BRPA nor Merger Sub has ever had any employees.

Labor Matters. There are no strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages, or controversies pending or, to the knowledge of either Borrower, threatened against either Borrower or any of its respective Restricted Subsidiaries which could have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

Labor Matters. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

Labor Matters. Other than as described in the Time of Sale Document and the Final Offering Memorandum, and except as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, # neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors is party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement with any labor organization; # there is no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of the Company or the Guarantors, and, to the knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, no union organizing activities are taking place that, could, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; # to the knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, no union organizing or decertification efforts are underway or threatened against the Company or the Guarantors; # no labor strike, work stoppage, slowdown or other material labor dispute is pending against the Company or the Guarantors, or, to the Company’s knowledge, after due inquiry, threatened against the Company or the Guarantors; # there is no worker’s compensation liability, experience or matter that could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; # to the knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, there is no threatened or pending liability against the Company or the Guarantors pursuant to the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act of 1988, as amended (“WARN”), or any similar state or local law; # there is no employment-related charge, complaint, grievance, investigation, unfair labor practice claim or inquiry of any kind, pending against the Company or the Guarantors that could, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

#Section 3.17(a) of the ​ Disclosure Schedule contains a list as of the date of this Agreement of all employees of ​, along with the position and the annual rate of base compensation and date of hire of each such person.

Employee and Labor Matters. There is # no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the knowledge of Parent or any Borrower, threatened in writing against Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries before any Governmental Authority and no grievance or arbitration proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary, threatened in writing against Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries which arises out of or under any collective bargaining agreement and that could, in each case and individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, # no strike, slowdown, work stoppage or similar action pending or, to the knowledge of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary, threatened in writing against Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or # to the knowledge of Parent and each Restricted Subsidiary, no union representation question existing with respect to the employment by Parent or its Restricted Subsidiaries of employees of Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and no union organizing activity taking place with respect to the employment by Parent or its Restricted Subsidiaries of any of the employees of Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case except to the extent the same, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expect to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Welfare Benefit Plans. During the Employment Period, Employee and/or Employee’s family, as the case may be, shall also be eligible for participation in and shall receive all benefits under all welfare benefit plans, practices, policies and programs provided by the Employer (including, without limitation, medical, hospitalization, prescription, dental, disability, employee life, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and travel accident insurance plans and programs) (“Welfare Benefit Plans”), in each case provided that senior management is eligible to participate therein.

Employee Benefit Plans. Neither BRPA nor Merger Sub maintains, and neither have any liability under, any Plan, and neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Merger will # result in any payment (including severance, unemployment compensation, golden parachute, bonus, or otherwise) becoming due to any shareholder, director, or employee of BRPA or Merger Sub, or # result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits.

Set forth on Part ​(a) of the Disclosure Schedule is a true, accurate and complete list of all Employee Benefit Plans, provided that with respect to any Employee Benefit Plans that are Employment Agreements, offer letters, consulting agreements or similar Contracts that are terminable at will and without penalty on less than 30 days’ notice, without severance, change in control or similar payments or benefits, only the forms thereof need to be listed on Part ​(a) of the Disclosure Schedule.

Employee Benefit Plans. Except for the sponsorship of Assumed Employee Benefit Plans, Purchaser shall not assume any Employee Benefit Plan or any Liability thereunder or related thereto and Purchaser shall provide only those benefits to Continuing Employees as of or after the Closing as Purchaser shall determine. In addition, Purchaser shall assume all responsibility for, and honor, paying any unpaid base wages and base salaries, accrued commissions, vacation, sick leave, personal time of the Continuing Employees but only to the extent not paid as of the Closing Date and set forth in the Financial Statements (the “Unpaid Compensation”). Except for obligations relating solely to the Assumed Employee Benefit Plans specifically assumed under [Section 2.3(c)] and the Unpaid Compensation, and as set forth in [Sections 9.3 and 9.4]4], Sellers shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Purchaser from and against all obligations, claims or Liabilities at any time arising under or in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan. Except as set forth in [Sections 9.3 and 9.4]4], nothing contained in this Agreement, express or implied: # shall be construed to establish, amend or modify any benefit or compensation plan, program, agreement or arrangement; # shall alter or limit the ability of Purchaser or any of its Affiliates to amend, modify or terminate any benefit or compensation plan, program, agreement or arrangement at any time assumed, established, sponsored or maintained by any of them; or # is intended to confer

All Awards shall constitute a special incentive payment to the Participant and shall not be taken into account in computing the amount of salary or compensation of the Participant for the purpose of determining any benefits under any pension, retirement, profit-sharing, bonus, life insurance or other benefit plan of the Company or under any agreement between the Company and the Participant, unless such plan or agreement specifically provides otherwise.

Welfare Benefit Plans. Except as otherwise limited by applicable law, Executive and/or her eligible dependents shall be eligible to participate in and shall receive all benefits under the Company’s welfare benefit plans and programs applicable generally to other senior executive officers of the Company in accordance with the terms of the plans, as may be amended from time to time.

Nothing contained herein shall in any way limit an Employee's right to participate in or benefit from any current or deferred compensation plan for which he is currently eligible by reason of his employment.

With respect to each “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of [Section 3(3)] of ERISA, and each other compensation and benefit plan, contract, policy, program and arrangement in effect as of the date hereof which is maintained, sponsored or contributed to by Seller (other than routine administrative procedures) in which any of the employees or their dependents participate (each an “Employee Plan”), each Employee Plan has been operated and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms and applicable law and administrative or governmental rules and regulations, including ERISA and the Code, except to the extent any noncompliance would not reasonably be expected to result in any liability imposed upon Purchaser. Neither Seller nor any ERISA Affiliate has any outstanding liability or could reasonably be expected to incur liability under Section 430(k) of the Code and/or Title IV of ERISA (other than for the payment of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premiums in the ordinary course).

Other Benefit Plans. Eligible Executives will receive any vested, accrued benefits to which they have become entitled under any of the Company’s employee benefit plans covering the Eligible Executive in accordance with and subject to the respective provisions of such employee benefit plans as they may be amended from time to time.