Non-assignability. A Covered Executive will have no right to assign or transfer any interest under this Plan.

Non-solicitation. Consultant agrees that during the Term of this Agreement, and for one year thereafter, Consultant will not, either directly or indirectly, solicit or attempt to solicit any employee or individual who provides services to Client as an independent contractor or consultant to terminate his or her relationship with Client in order to become an employee, consultant or independent contractor to or for another person or entity.

Non-Circumvention. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Receiving Party agrees for itself and its employees, Affiliates and Representatives that it will not use the other Party's Confidential Information to compete, either directly or indirectly, against the disclosing Party, to engage in any transaction with a third party, or disclose, reverse engineer, or use any of the disclosing Party's Confidential Information to interfere with, or deprive the disclosing Party of any business opportunities. Also, Receiving Party shall not use the other Party's Confidential Information in any manner to solicit, accept or engage in any business from the Receiving Party's Affiliates or from third parties that either directly or indirectly competes against the disclosing Party.

Non-Partition. No Partner shall be entitled to seek partition of any Partnership property.

Non-Competition. As the Award is intended to encourage the Participant to continue employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate, during which time the Participant will have access to Confidential Information (as defined below), including Confidential Information first developed after the Grant Date, during the term of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or any Affiliate and for a period of two (2) years following the termination of employment, regardless of the reason for or the manner of termination, the Participant shall not, without the written consent of the General Counsel of the Corporation or their designee, in any country or countries for which the Participant had development, marketing, innovation/technology (R&D), distribution, sales, administrative, operational/supply chain or manufacturing oversight responsibilities during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment or was provided with regular and material access to Confidential Information regarding the Corporation’s or an Affiliate's business operations in that country or countries during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment, either directly or indirectly, perform duties or undertake responsibilities for a Competitor (as defined below) that are the same or substantially similar to those duties or responsibilities that the Participant performed or undertook for the Corporation or an Affiliate during the two (2) year period prior to the end of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate. “Confidential Information,” for purposes of this Section 19, shall mean # statutory trade secrets; # proprietary information developed or acquired by the Corporation that does not rise to the level of a statutorily protectable trade secret and is made the property of the Corporation through this mutual Agreement of the parties; and # information that is otherwise legally protectable. Such Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, information in whatever form (including, without limitation, in written, oral, visual or electronic form or on any magnetic or optical disk or memory storage medium, as well as other physical items wherever located, and abstracts or summaries of the foregoing) relating to the business, suppliers, customers, products, affairs and finances of the Corporation or any Affiliate for the time being confidential to the Corporation or any Affiliate, ideas, conceptions, compilations of data, and developments created by the Corporation, whether or not patentable and whether or not copyrightable, and trade secrets including, without limitation, technical data and know-how relating to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate, or any of their suppliers, customers, agents, distributors, shareholders or management, including (but not limited to) business plans, pricing strategies, financial information, patent rights, patent applications, information concerning tenders and potential contracts, information concerning proposed product ranges, product development information, employee and salary information, research and development activities or manufacturing methods that the Participant creates, develops, receives, obtains or has knowledge of in connection with the Participant’s employment, and all other matters which relate to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate and in respect of which information is not readily available in the ordinary course of such business to the Corporation's Competitors, whether or not such information (if in anything other than oral form) is marked confidential. “Competitor,” for purposes of this Section 19, means a person or entity who engages in a business that is the same or substantially the same as any aspect of the Business of the Corporation. “Business of the Corporation,” for purposes of this Section 19, is the development, production, sales and/or marketing of # health and hygiene products and related apparel; # washroom and workplace protective and safety products; and # the materials, packaging and other components/subcomponents of such products including, without limitation, non-wood plants and products derived therefrom including any fibers, pulps or extracts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant’s residence or principal place of employment on the date of acceptance of this Award Agreement is in the States of California, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Washington or in any other jurisdiction where any provision of this Section 19(b) prohibiting post-employment competition is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law, then the provisions of this Section 19(b) will not apply to the extent any such provision is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law.

Non-Admission. ​ and the Participant enter into this Agreement expressly disavowing fault, liability, and wrongdoing, liability at all times having been denied. Neither this Agreement, nor anything contained in it, will be construed as an admission by either of them of any liability, wrongdoing, or unlawful conduct whatsoever. If this Agreement is not executed, no term of this Agreement will be deemed an admission by either party of any right that he/it may have with or against the other.

Non-Interference. The Executive covenants and agrees that while the Executive is employed by the Company and for a period of one (1) year immediately following the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive shall not, without the prior written approval of the Company, directly or indirectly, either on behalf of the Executive or any other person or entity, Interfere with the Company or any of its Related Entities.

Non-Competition. The Executive understands that the Company operates across the United States and Canada. The Executive acknowledges that the Executive’s duties as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will entail involvement with the entire range of the Company’s operations across the United States and Canada, and that the Executive’s extensive familiarity with the Company’s business and Confidential Information justifies a restriction applicable across the entire geographic footprint in which the Company provides services and does business. To the fullest extent permitted by any applicable law, the Executive covenants and agrees that during employment, and for the period of one (1) year immediately following the termination, for any reason, of the Executive’s employment with the Company (the “Non-Compete Period”), the Executive will not:

Non-Disparagement. Except as otherwise provided in [Subsection 18(a)(iii)] of this Agreement, the Executive agrees that while the Executive is employed by the Company and at all times following the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive will not take any action or make any statement which disparages the Company or its practices or which disrupts or impairs its normal operations, such that it causes a material adverse impact to the Company.

At all times during the employment with the Company and for the Confidentiality Period under [Section 5.4] of this Agreement, neither party shall make (or cause to be made) to any Person any defamatory, disparaging or false statement about the other.