Labor Matters Sample Clauses

Labor Matters. (a) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is or has, since December 31, 2012, been, a party to any collective bargaining agreement or any labor union contract or trade union agreement or work rules, nor are there any employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries who are, or since December 31, 2012 have been, represented by a works council or a labor organization, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, are there, nor since December 31, 2012 have there been, any pending activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize any employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) As of the date of this Agreement, there is no material pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, labor strike, walkout, work stoppage, slowdown or lockout with respect to employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (c) As of the date of this Agreement, there is no unfair labor practice or labor arbitration proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. (d) Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (i) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries are and have been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable local, state, federal and foreign Laws relating to employment, including, without limitation, Laws relating to discrimination, hours of work and the payment of wages or overtime wages, classification of employees and independent contractors, health and safety, layoffs and plant closings and collective bargaining, (ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have not received notice of any charge or complaint with respect to or relating to them pending before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any other Governmental Entity responsible for the prevention of unlawful employment practices, or notice of the intent of any Governmental Entity responsible for the enforcement of labor, employment, wages and hours of work, child labor, immigration, or occupational safety and health laws to conduct an investigation with respect to or relating to them or notice that such investigation is in progress, and (iii) as of the date of this Agreement, there are no complaints or lawsuits, pending or, to the Knowledge of the Comp...

Labor Matters. As of the date of this Agreement, Section 4.19 of the Qwest Disclosure Letter sets forth a true and complete list of all collective bargaining or other labor union contracts applicable to any employees of Qwest or any of the Qwest Subsidiaries. To the Knowledge of Qwest, as of the date of this Agreement, no labor organization or group of employees of Qwest or any Qwest Subsidiary has made a pending demand for recognition or certification, and there are no representation or certification proceedings or petitions seeking a representation proceeding presently pending or threatened to be brought or filed, with the National Labor Relations Board or any other labor relations tribunal or authority. To the Knowledge of Qwest, there are no organizing activities, strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts, material arbitrations or material grievances, or other material labor disputes pending or threatened against or involving Qwest or any Qwest Subsidiary. None of Qwest or any of the Qwest Subsidiaries has breached or otherwise failed to comply with any provision of any collective bargaining agreement or other labor union Contract applicable to any employees of Qwest or any of the Qwest Subsidiaries, except for any breaches, failures to comply or disputes that, individually or in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Qwest Material Adverse Effect. Qwest has made available to CenturyLink true and complete copies of all collective bargaining agreements and other labor union contracts (including all amendments thereto) applicable to any employees of Qwest or any Qwest Subsidiary (the “Qwest CBAs”). Except as otherwise set forth in the Qwest CBAs, neither Qwest nor any Qwest Subsidiary (a) as of the date of this Agreement, has entered into any agreement, arrangement or understanding, whether written or oral, with any union, trade union, works council or other employee representative body or any material number or category of its employees which would prevent, restrict or materially impede the consummation of the Merger or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the implementation of any layoff, redundancy, severance or similar program within its or their respective workforces (or any part of them) or (b) has any express commitment, whether legally enforceable or not, to, or not to, modify, change or terminate any Qwest Benefit Plan.

Labor Matters. (a) (i) As of the date of this Agreement, except as set forth in Section 6.10 of the Company Disclosure Letter, and (ii) as of any date subsequent to the date of this Agreement except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (x) none of the employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries is represented by a union and, to the knowledge of the Company, no union organizing efforts have been conducted or threatened since January 1, 2005 or are being conducted or threatened, (y) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or is negotiating any collective bargaining agreement or other labor Contract, and (z) there is no pending and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no threatened material strike, picket, work stoppage, work slowdown or other organized labor dispute affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (b) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating to the employment of labor, including all applicable Laws relating to wages, hours, collective bargaining, employment discrimination, civil rights, safety and health, workers’ compensation, pay equity, classification of employees, and the collection and payment of withholding or social security Taxes. No material unfair labor practice charge or complaint is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or material obligation under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”) or any similar state or local Law which remains unsatisfied, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has planned or announced any “plant closing” or “mass layoff” as contemplated by WARN affecting any site of employment or facility of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

Labor Matters. (a) No Company Group Member is party to or bound by any CBA and no employee of any Company Group Member is represented by any labor union, other labor organization or works council with respect to their employment with any Company Group Member. There are, and since the Lookback Date there have been, no pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened (i) labor organizing activities or representation or certification proceedings by any labor union, works council or other labor organization to organize any of the employees of any Company Group Member, or (ii) material labor disputes, labor grievances, labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, strikes, lockouts, picketing, hand billing, slowdowns, concerted refusals to work overtime, or work stoppages against or affecting any Company Group Member. (b) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.14(b), each Company Group Member is, and since the Lookback Date has been, in compliance in all respects with all applicable Laws regarding labor, employment and employment practices, including all Laws respecting terms and conditions of employment, health and safety, employee classification (including the classification of independent contractors and exempt and non-exempt employees), discrimination, harassment or retaliation, whistleblowing, wages and hours, immigration (including the completion of Forms I-9 for all U.S. employees and the proper confirmation of employee visas), disability rights or benefits, equal opportunity, plant closures and layoffs (including the WARN Act), COVID-19, affirmative action, workers’ compensation, labor relations, employee leave issues, employee trainings and notices, and unemployment insurance. The Company and its Subsidiaries have reasonably investigated all harassment or other discrimination or unlawful retaliation allegations of which any of them is aware and have provided detailed information related to each such allegations within the last two (2) years in the data room. With respect to each such allegations with potential merit, each Company Group Member has taken prompt corrective action and no such investigations or allegations are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened. Since the January 1, 2017, neither the Company nor any of their respective Subsidiaries has implemented any plant closing or employee layoffs that would trigger notice obligations under the WARN Act. In the past two (2) years, no employee of the Company Group has made written allegation...

Labor Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (a) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against any Group Member pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payment made to employees of each Group Member have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Requirement of Law dealing with such matters; and (c) all payments due from any Group Member on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the relevant Group Member.

Labor Matters. 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.

Labor Matters. Except to the extent imposed or implied by applicable foreign Law, as of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, or bound by, any collective bargaining agreement (or similar agreement or arrangement in any foreign country) with employees, a labor union or labor organization. Except for such matters which have not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (a) as of the date hereof, (i) there are no strikes or lockouts with respect to any employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and, (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no union organizing effort pending or threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (b) there is no unfair labor practice, labor dispute (other than routine individual grievances) or labor arbitration proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, nor are there any material industrial or trade disputes or negotiations regarding a claim with any trade union, group or organization of employees or their representatives representing employees or workers; (c) there is no slowdown, or work stoppage in effect or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (d) the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable Laws respecting (i) employment and employment practices, (ii) terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, (iii) unfair labor practices, and (iv) the Acquired Rights Directive and or any similar international, foreign, national, state or local law, and any information and consultation or similar obligation . Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any liabilities under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, as amended (the “WARN Act”) or, to the knowledge of the Company, any similar international, foreign, national, state or local law, including without limitation the Acquired Rights Directive and collective dismissal laws, as a result of any action taken or being contemplated to be taken prior to the Effective Time by the Company that have had, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. Except as has not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Advers...

Labor Matters. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.18, as of the date hereof, to the Knowledge of the Shareholders and the Conveyed Entities, (i) there is no labor strike, slowdown, stoppage or lockout actually pending or threatened against a Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) no union represents the employees of a Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) neither a Conveyed Entity nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining or similar agreement with any labor organization; (iv) each Conveyed Entity and each of its Subsidiaries is, and has at all times been, in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable Laws respecting employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, wages, hours of work and occupational safety and health, and is not engaged in any unfair labor practices as defined in the National Labor Relations Act or other applicable Law, ordinance or regulation; (v) there is no unfair labor practice charge or complaint asserted against any Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries pending or, to the Knowledge of the Shareholders and the Conveyed Entities, threatened before the National Labor Relations Board or any similar state or foreign agency, which if adversely determined against any Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (vi) there is no material grievance arising out of any collective bargaining agreement or other grievance procedure pending before any Governmental Authority; (vii) no material charges with respect to or relating to any Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries are pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any other agency responsible for the prevention of unlawful employment practices, which, if adversely determined against any Conveyed Entity or any Subsidiaries thereof, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (viii) neither a Conveyed Entity nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice, from June 30, 1996 through the date hereof of the intent of any federal, state, local or foreign agency responsible for the enforcement of labor or employment Laws to conduct an investigation with respect to or relating to any Conveyed Entity or any of its Subsidiaries and no such investigation is in progress; and (ix) there are no complaints, lawsuits or other proceedings pending or threatened in any forum by or on behalf of any present or former employee of a Conveyed Entity or any of its Sub...

Labor Matters. There are no strikes, lockouts, slowdowns or other material labor disputes against any Loan Party pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act and any other applicable federal, state, local or foreign Law dealing with such matters except to the extent that any such violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party has incurred any liability or obligation under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act or similar state Law, except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All payments due from any Loan Party, or for which any claim may be made against any Loan Party, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP as a liability on the books of such Loan Party, except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.18 no Loan Party is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement. There are no representation proceedings pending or, to any Loan Party’s knowledge, threatened to be filed with the National Labor Relations Board, and no labor organization or group of employees of any Loan Party has made a pending demand for recognition in each case which could individually or in the aggregate be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. There are no complaints, unfair labor practice charges, grievances, arbitrations, unfair employment practices charges or any other claims or complaints against any Loan Party pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened to be filed with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment of any employee of any Loan Party which could, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents 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 any Loan Party is bound except as could not reasonably be expected to have individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effec...