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.

Benefit Plans. NOVA is not a party to any collective bargaining agreement or any bonus, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock ownership, stock purchase, phantom stock, retirement, vacation, severance, disability, death benefit, hospitalization, medical or other plan, arrangement or understanding (whether or not legally binding) under which NOVA currently has an obligation to provide benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of NOVA (collectively, "Benefit Plans").