Transferred Employees. The Purchaser shall (or shall cause one of its Purchaser Affiliates listed on Part ​(a)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule or a third party professional employer organization listed on Part ​(a)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule to) offer employment to, or contract with the applicable existing third party professional employer organization to continue the employment relationship of, each of the employees of the Seller listed on Part ​(a)(iii) of the Disclosure Schedule (the “Designated Employees”) on terms and conditions ​ and that otherwise comply with this [Section 9.8]; provided that Seller shall be permitted to postpone the transfer date of the respective employment relationship with the Designated Employees who are employees of ​ until ​ at the latest, or cancel such transfer in connection with ​, and the offers shall contemplate such possibility. Each offer of employment made pursuant to this [Section 9.8(a)] must comply with the timing requirements set forth on the list labeled “Offer Calendar” provided from the Seller to the Purchaser on the date of this Agreement (the “Offer Calendar”), including the requirement for a ​ to be extended by the specified deadline (if applicable), the deadline for ​, the ​, the ​ and the ​. Purchaser shall notify Seller within ​ of making any offer to any Designated Employee, or any Designated Employee accepting or rejecting any offer. The Designated Employees who accept employment with the Purchaser or one of its Affiliates shall, effective upon commencement of employment with the Purchaser or one of its Affiliates, be referred to herein as “Transferred Employees”. The Designated Employees who do not accept employment with the Purchaser or the Purchaser Affiliates as of the Closing Date shall be referred to as the “Non-Transferring Employees”. The other employees of the Seller and its Affiliates who are not Designated Employees shall be referred to collectively herein as “Non-Designated Employees”. With respect to any Designated Employee who will provide services to the Purchaser pursuant to the Transition Services Agreement following the Closing, such Designated Employee shall be deemed to be a Transferred Employee for the purposes of this Agreement solely upon the date such individual commences employment with the Purchaser or one of its Affiliates and for such employees the terms Closing and Closing Date in this [Section 9.8] shall mean the date on which such individual’s employment with the Purchaser or one of its Affiliates commenced. Prior to such date, such individual shall be deemed to be a Non-Transferring Employee for the purposes of this Agreement.

ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES. An eligible employee is an employee who, on the effective date of an offering, has been an employee of the Corporation or one of the Corporation’s subsidiaries (designated by the Committee on the effective date of such offering as a participating subsidiary) for at least two years preceding the effective date of such offering; whose customary employment is twenty (20) hours or more per week; and whose customary employment is for five (5) months or more in any calendar year.

The provisions of this [Section 8] shall be applicable to any Restricted Stock Award, Restricted Stock Unit Award, Performance Award, or Other Stock-Based Award if it is granted to an Eligible Person who is, or is likely to be, as of the end of the tax year in which the Company would claim a tax deduction in connection with such Award, a Covered Employee and is intended to qualify as “performance-based compensation” that is exempt from the deduction limitations imposed under Section 162(m) of the Code.

Union Employees. Regardless of any provision in this Plan to the contrary, Employees whose employment is governed by a collective bargaining agreement between the Employer and "employee representatives" under which retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining shall be eligible to participate in this Plan to the extent of employment covered by such agreement provided the agreement provides for coverage in the Plan. The benefits, including but not limited to, contributions, allocations and vesting, under this Plan shall be those set forth in the collective bargaining agreement, which is hereby incorporated by ref erence and attached as an addendum to the Adoption Agreement. For this purpose, the term "employee representatives" does not include any organization more than half of whose members are employees who are owners, officers, or executives of the Employer. The provisions of this Subsection only apply if no more than two percent (2%) of the Employees covered pursuant to the agreement are professionals as defined in Regulation §1.410(b)-9. If a Participant performs services both as a collectively bargained Employee and as a non-collectively bargained Employee, then the Participant's Hours of Service and Compensation in each respective category are treated separately for purposes of the Plan.

Rehired Employees. For purposes of paragraph # above, an Employee who for an entire Plan Year did not have contributions made pursuant to a default election under the EACA will be treated as having not had such contributions for any prior Plan Year as well.

Continuing Employees. At least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing, Buyer shall deliver, in writing, an offer of employment (on terms and conditions consistent with this [Section 5.07]) to all then current Plant Employees to commence such employment immediately after the Closing, other than any Plant Employees who have been identified as Affected Employees pursuant to [clause (a)] of such definition as of such time); provided, that each such offer shall be subject to the applicable Plant Employee’s continued employment with Seller until immediately prior to the Closing and to Buyer’s customary pre-employment/post-offer procedures and qualifications; provided further that, with respect to each Plant Employee who is not actively employed as of immediately prior to the Closing due to a leave of absence (each, an “Inactive Plant Employee”), any such offer shall # be contingent on # such Plant Employee presenting himself or herself to Buyer for active employment during the six-month period immediately following the Closing (or such longer period as specified by applicable Law), and presenting reasonable evidence to Buyer of such readiness for active employment and # the circumstances being such that Seller would have been required to re-employ or continue to employ such Plant Employee in accordance with applicable Law and its applicable policies, practices and procedures in effect on the date hereof, if the transactions contemplated by this Agreement had not occurred, and # be effective on the date that such Plant Employee presents himself or herself to Buyer for active employment. Seller will provide Buyer with a then-current list of Inactive Plant Employees within five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date indicating the last potential date of return. For all purposes of the remainder of this [Section 5.07], with respect to any Inactive Plant Employee, the date that such Inactive Plant Employee commences employment with Buyer or the time of such commencement of employment shall be substituted for the terms “Closing Date” or “Closing”, respectively, wherever such term appears. Each such offer of employment shall be consistent with the obligations of Buyer set forth in this [Section 5.07]. Such individuals who accept such offer by the Closing Date are hereinafter referred to as the “Continuing Employees.” Effective as of the Closing, Seller shall terminate the employment of each Plant Employee who satisfies Buyer’s pre-employment/post-offer procedures and qualifications (other than any Plant Employee who has been identified as an Affected Employee pursuant to [clause (a)] of such definition).

The Company and its Subsidiaries have good relationships with its employees and, since ​, have not had any labor issues which have has a MaterialAdverse Effect on their business or operations. There is no strike or work stoppage existing or, to the knowledge of the Company threatened against the Company or the Subsidiaries. Other than as disclosed in any Exchange Act Report, the Company and the Subsidiaries have not established, sponsored, maintained, made any contributions to or been obligated by law to establish, maintain, sponsor or make any contributions to any “employee pension benefit plan” or any material “employee welfare benefit plan” (as such terms are defined in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)), including, without limitation, any “multi-employer plan,” except where the liabilities associated with such plan or plans would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable laws relating to the employment of labor, including bargaining and the payment of social security and other taxes, and with ERISA, except where the failure to so comply would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

Specified Employees. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any payment or benefit provided to Executive in connection with his termination of employment is determined to constitute “nonqualified deferred compensation” within the meaning of [Section 409A] and Executive is determined to be a “specified employee” as defined in Section 409A(a)(2)(b)(i), then such payment or benefit shall not be paid until the first payroll date to occur following the six-month anniversary of the Termination Date or, if earlier, on Executive’s death (the “Specified Employee Payment Date”). The aggregate of any payments that would otherwise have been paid before the Specified Employee Payment Date shall be paid to Executive in a lump sum on the Specified Employee Payment Date and thereafter, any remaining payments shall be paid without delay in accordance with their original schedule.

Certain Employees. Officers and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries who hold executive, administrative, managerial, supervisory, technical or other key positions shall be eligible for participation under the Plan, and participants shall for the most part be selected from among members of this group. None of the members of the Committee and no director of the Company or of a Subsidiary who is not also an officer or employee of the Company or of a Subsidiary shall be eligible for participation under the Plan.

Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary, has # directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, # made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, # failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company or any Subsidiary (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or # violated any provision of FCPA.