Leave With Pay for Family-Related Responsibilities (a) For the purpose of this clause, family is defined as any relative permanently residing in the employee’s household or with whom the employee permanently resides, the employee’s spouse, (or common-law partner resident with the employee), children (including ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children and children of legal or common-law partner) or parents (including step-parents or ▇▇▇▇▇▇-parents).
(b) The Council shall grant leave with pay under the following circumstances:
(i) When alternate arrangements are not possible, an employee shall be granted up to one (1) scheduled working day’s leave for a medical or dental appointment when the dependent family member is incapable of attending the appointment by himself/herself, or for appointments with appropriate authorities in schools or adoption agencies. An employee requesting leave under this provision must notify his/her supervisor of the appointment as far in advance as possible;
(ii) To provide for the immediate and temporary care of a sick member of the employee's immediate family and to provide an employee with time to make alternate care arrangements where the illness is of a longer duration;
(iii) Fifteen (15) hours’ leave with pay for needs directly related to the birth or to the adoption of the employee's child.
(c) The total leave with pay which may be granted under sub-clause (c) (i), (ii) and (iii) shall not exceed thirty- seven decimal five (37.5) hours in a fiscal year. **
(d) Seven decimal five (7.5) hours out of thirty-seven decimal five (37.5) hours stipulated in clause 19.16 (c) above may be used:
(i) to attend school functions, if the supervisor was notified of the functions as far in advance as possible;
(ii) to provide for the employee’s child in the case of an unforeseeable closure of the school or daycare facility;
(iii) to attend an appointment with a legal or paralegal representative for non- employment related matters, or with financial or other professional representative, if the supervisor was notified of the appointment as far in advance as possible.
(e) Where, in respect of any period of compensatory leave, an employee is granted leave with pay for illness in the family under sub-paragraph (b) (ii) above, on production of a medical certificate, the period of compensatory leave so displaced shall either be added to the compensatory leave period, if requested by the employee and approved by the Council, or reinstated for use at a later date.
Authority Relative to this Agreement (a) The Company has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and each of the Ancillary Agreements to which the Company is a party (subject to the receipt of the consents described in Section 3.05(b)) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (other than the approval and adoption of this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with Georgia Law and the Company Articles of Incorporation (the "Company Stockholders' Action"). The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of the Company are necessary to authorize this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements or to consummate the transactions so contemplated, other than the Company Stockholders' Action. This Agreement has been, and the Ancillary Agreements will be, duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements by each of the other parties hereto and thereto, constitutes, or, in the case of the Ancillary Agreements, will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent such enforceability may be subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting creditors generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(b) The Company Special Committee and the Company Board (i) have unanimously declared that this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby (other than the Spin-off) and thereby are advisable, fair to and in the best interests of the stockholders of the Company, (ii) have unanimously authorized, approved and adopted this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and (iii) have recommended that the stockholders of the Company authorize, approve and adopt this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby (other than the Spin-off) and thereby.
No Agency Relationship Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize or empower either party to act as agent for the other party to this Agreement, or to conduct business in the name, or for the account, of the other party to this Agreement.
Authority Relative to Agreement (a) The Company has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and, subject (in the case of the Merger) to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company, and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action by the Company, and (in the case of the Merger, except for the (i) receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval and (ii) filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Delaware Secretary of State) no other corporate action or proceeding on the part of the Company is necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement by the other parties hereto, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except that (A) such enforcement may be subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including all Laws related to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar Laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally and (B) the remedies of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any Proceeding therefor may be brought.
(b) The Company Board has, by resolutions unanimously adopted by the Company Board, (i) approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are advisable and in the best interests of the Company and the Company’s stockholders, (iii) directed that the adoption of this Agreement be submitted to a vote at the Company Stockholders’ Meeting and (iv) resolved to make the Company Recommendation; provided that any change, modification or rescission of such Company Recommendation by the Company Board in accordance with this Agreement shall not be a breach of the representation in this clause (iv). As of the date of this Agreement, none of the aforesaid actions by the Company Board has been amended, rescinded or modified.
Absence of Fiduciary Relationship The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) the Agent is acting solely as agent in connection with the public offering of the Placement Shares and in connection with each transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the process leading to such transactions, and no fiduciary or advisory relationship between the Company or any of its respective affiliates, stockholders (or other equity holders), creditors or employees or any other party, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, has been or will be created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether or not the Agent has advised or is advising the Company on other matters, and the Agent has no obligation to the Company with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement;
(b) it is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) neither the Agent nor its affiliates have provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and it has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate;
(d) it is aware that the Agent and its affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Agent and its affiliates have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship or otherwise; and
(e) it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Agent or its affiliates for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the sale of Placement Shares under this Agreement and agrees that the Agent and its affiliates shall not have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) to it in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on its behalf or in right of it or the Company, employees or creditors of Company.