Common use of MATTERS RELEASED Clause in Contracts

MATTERS RELEASED. (a) I release Tesoro Corporation and any subsidiary or other affiliated companies, successors, and assigns and all of their past, present, and future shareholders, owners, agents, representatives, officers, directors, administrators, trustees, insurers, successors, and employees (collectively “Tesoro”) from all existing, past and present, known and unknown claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature for all existing, past and present, known and unknown damages and remedies of any nature, which have accrued or which may ever accrue to me or to others on whose behalf I enter into this Release, resulting from or relating to any act or omission of any kind occurring on or before the date of signing this Release. (b) This release includes but is not limited to all claims under any federal, state, or local employment law or regulation. I understand and agree that this release is intended to include but is not limited to all claims that I could assert concerning the terms and conditions of my employment, concerning anything that happened to me while I was an employee, or concerning the separation of my employment. (c) This release includes but is not limited to claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; 42 U.S.C. § 1981; the Americans with Disabilities Act; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Executive Order 11246; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act; the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”), the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, as amended; the retaliation provisions of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, Chapter 451 of the Texas Labor Code; the Fair Labor Standards Act; the Equal Pay Act; and the Family and Medical Leave Act. (d) This release also includes but is not limited to all claims under any other state, federal, or local law or regulation and all claims at common law (including but not limited to negligence, contract, or tort claims). The release also includes all claims for back pay, front pay, damages, liquidated damages, exemplary and punitive damages, injunctive relief, costs, or attorneys’ fees. (e) This release is not intended to waive rights or claims, if any, that arise after the date this Release is executed. Further, this release is not intended to waive vested rights, if any, that I might have in any written benefit plan or program or any rights I may have to indemnification under the Indemnification Agreement between the Company and me or under the Company’s charter and bylaws. I understand that the terms and conditions contained within any such benefit plan or program, specifically including those relating to any vested rights that I may have in such plan or program, shall be controlling. In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Release shall prevent me from filing a charge with any federal, state or administrative agency, but I agree not to participate in, and waive any rights with respect to, any monetary or financial relief arising from any such proceeding that relates to the matters released by this Release.