EXHIBIT 10.16 - FORM OF EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS FOR
EMPLOYEES OF ACTIVEPOINT ISRAEL
Activepoint, Ltd
Date:____________
To:
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To the Employee:
EMPLOYMENT TERMS FOR THE COMPANY
We are glad to accept you to the Activepoint, Ltd. family (the "Company") and
what follows are the main terms for your employment in the Company. We wish you
success in your endeavor.
1. Your position in the Company will be ___________________ and you will report
directly to the _________________ of the Company.
2. BASE SALARY
You will be based a gross base salary of NIS ____________ per month for a
position that will be ________% time ("Base" salary).
The Base salary will be the sole determinant of other payments when calculated
relative to your salary, including for Manager's Insurance, Pension Fund, etc.
The base salary will rise when required according to that which obligates all
companies.
3. Payment for overtime hours
In addition, you will be paid overtime hours for all hours that are worked
beyond what is required under the Work and Rest Hours Law of 1951 - at a rate of
NIS _____ per month.
4. Annual Vacation
You will receive credit for ________ days of vacation per annum, according to
the accepted vacation practices of the Company.
5. Travel Allowance
In addition, you will receive a travel allowance of NIS ________ per month.
6. Telephone Allowance
In addition, you will receive a telephone allowance of NIS _________ per month.
7. General
7.1 The terms of your employment detailed in this letter are conditioned upon
the Personal Employment Agreement which will be signed contemporaneously
with the signing of this agreement.
7.2 All payments, social and other benefits detailed in this letter are Gross
payments and will be subject to tax withholding according to the law;
unless otherwise stated the Company will not take tax and other payments
upon itself, but will be your exclusive responsibility.
8. Other
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With Respect,
Activepoint, Ltd.
A. I hereby agree to all terms detailed in this letter and the Personal
Employment Agreement, the Appendices and other documents attached.
B. I declare with this, that I am aware that all the terms of employ
detailed in the letter are personal and I commit to keeping them
confidential.
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Signature Name of Employee Date
9. Translation Approval: (for non Hebrew/English readers)
9.1 I ___________ declare that I translated the agreement for the employee
signed above and that the text of the letter and the Personal Employment
Agreement and Appendices are identical to my translation to the language of
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Name Address Date Natl. ID# Signature
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Appendix A
CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-COMPETITION
1. The employee has been made aware that the confidentiality of the
operations of the Company are key to its success and competitive
advantage.
2. In light of this, the employee commits that during the entire course
of his employ at the Company and for ALL TIME after that, the
employee will keep all information, as defined below, completely
confidential; that no information, acquired intentionally or not,
during employ at the Company will be passed to any person or other
concern for compensation or without compensation; the employee
commits not to make any use of this information for his own benefit
or for the benefit of others, whether they are affiliated to the
employee, or not.
3. "Information" in this appendix means: All information, written or
oral or documented any other way (including magnetic tapes, computer
programs, etc) that refers or deals with the Company directly or
indirectly and is not in the public domain; that includes its
business, methods and ways of development, production, research,
incentives, compensation, organization, sales, names of clients,
suppliers and distributors and the communications with them; that
includes development plans, marketing, sales and business plans and
prices; all information is included unless in the public domain or
has become part of the public domain.
"The Company" - for this appendix includes all those companies associated
with it: All parent companies and subsidiaries, etc.
4. It is known to me that all the information includes, patents,
samples, models, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, production
rights, processes, designs, plans, scenarios, lists, developments,
sketches, specifications, results of research or experiments, etc,
existent now or in the future, whether I developed them myself or
participated in their development, or not; all this is the property
of the Company or its appointee, unless explicitly agreed to in
writing. I hereby relinquish all rights that I have or will have to
receive compensation regarding information; I further agree to
co-operate with the Company and to supply it with any additional
information needed to produce or establish rights for the
information or other items detailed here.
5. I hereby agree and commit to take all necessary steps to guard
privileged information and secrets and to assure that it will remain
thus, especially during the time of my employ at the Company and
after the term of my employ for an indefinite period; I will not
reveal or publicize nor will I pass the information, directly or
indirectly to any person or concern at all in any place they are,
with the exception of other employees of the Company that are
permitted to receive the information, or that which has been
approved to me in writing by the company in order to fulfill my
responsibilities to the company. I commit not to use the information
in any way unless it is required for the fulfillment of my
responsibilities to the company; I will not copy or make copies of
any information not for the use of the Company.
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6. All my obligations above are incumbent upon myself and any company I
might form, participate in or control, in the future or the present;
I will desist from forming, participating in or controlling any such
company that the above obligations prevent me from establishing.
7. It is known to me that any breach of this agreement can cause
monetary or other damage to the Company and that it is not possible
to predict the nature and scope of said damages.
8. I agree, that regarding all that has been written and said regarding
this agreement will be adjudicated, if necessary, in the appointed
court in the region of Tel-Aviv-Yafo.
9. In addition, I declare and agree that any discovery or innovation of
my own, or ideas, samples, or programs - together known as
"discovery" - that I will create or develop during or as part of my
work in the Company or in the business designation of the company,
belong exclusively to the Company; this includes source code of
programs and upgrades to programs that were developed by me; that I
will have no claims or rights or any kind to them.
I assign to the Company ahead of time all rights and the company can at its
exclusive choosing decide to make use, or not of my innovations.
10. I agree to tell the Company immediately of any discovery,
development, improvement, other methods or information that are
relevant to the business or the Company.
I agree to sign any document that will be required by the company or others
acting in its name in order to protect any discovery in any country.
NON-COMPETITION
1. The employee declares that the Company has invested large, special
and expensive resources in the training of the employee and the
employee therefore commits to the following:
2. During the course of employ at the Company according to his
agreement and for a period of 24 months afterwards, that will start
at the last day of employ at the Company for whatever reason, he
will not work or be a partner, owner, shareholder, manager,
employee, advisor or any other position at any business (whether
incorporated or not) that competes with the Company in its
activities, its business of any sort; this whether alone or with
others, for compensation or without compensation, in Israel or
abroad, direct or indirect. "Competition" means competing at the
time of the signing of this agreement or the time at which the
disallowed activities occurred, including putting the employee in
the position of interested party of a competitor.
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3. Without regard to what was written above, the employee commits that
during the period mentioned in "paragraph 2" above he will not act in
the following ways:
A. Communicate or seek to communicate, directly or indirectly with those
what were clients of the Company or who did business (regular or
one-time) with the company, or with customers that the Company had
contact with for the purpose of selling products or giving services
during the period of employ at the Company.
B. Being in contact or seeking to communicate directly or indirectly to
suppliers of the company or to suppliers that the company had contact
with in order to buy products or receive services during the period of
employ at the Company.
C. Seek to communicate, directly or indirectly, at his initiative or at
the initiative of others, to another employee of the Company or its
assignee in order to cause them to leave the Company or to execute any
activity whose goal is to recruit employees of the Company for work at
a new place of employ or at a competitor.
D. Let it be brought to the employee's attention that because of the
nature of the business of the Company, violation of my agreement of
non-Competition will harm the Company and cause it heavy damages which
are not able to be projected into the future.
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Employee Company
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PERSONAL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
Signed in Netanya, Israel on: ___________
Between: Activepoint, Ltd.
Poleg Industrial Park - South Netanya
(the "Company")
first party.
And: Name: ___________________________
ID: ___________________________
Address: ___________________________
City: ___________________________
Tel.: ___________________________
(the "Employee")
second party.
Whereas: The employee is employed from the date: _________________;
Whereas: The employee declares that he has the qualifications, skills
and experience necessary to fill the position as set out in this agreement;
Whereas: the two parties are interested in arranging and determining
the type and terms of employ of the Employee at the Company in this Personal
Employment Agreement in writing;
THEREFORE IT IS STIPULATED, DECLARED AND AGREED BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES AS
FOLLOWS:
1. Preamble, Commentary and Appendices
1.1 The Preamble to the agreement is an inseparable part of it.
1.2 The paragraph titles of the agreement are for clarity only and are
not to be used for interpretive purposes.
1.3 To this agreement are attached appendices and other documents that
are inseparable from it and are: Appendix A - Confidentiality and
non-Competitive Agreement; Appendix B - Special Conditions and
Attachments.
2. Goals of the Agreement
2.1 The goal of this agreement is to organize and determine the method
and terms of the employee's employ at the Company.
2.2 The parties declare with this, that the agreement is a Personal
Employment Agreement and its instructions will take precedence over
previous documents, over instructions of a "union agreement" that is
in effect on the sides, and/or a "union agreement" and/or other
Augmentation Agreements that are in effect for both parties.
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3. The Position
3.1 The employee will be employed by the Company for the position as
detailed in the Employment Terms Letter that was signed by the
employee ("Employment Terms Letter")
3.2 It is agreed by the parties that the company will be allowed to
transfer the employee, according to need, to another position, in
writing, so long as the employment terms of the employee will not
change and his standing in the company will not be materially
affected.
4. Period of Employment
4.1 The employee will be employed by the Company commencing with the
date as found in the Employment Terms Letter.
4.2 Cessation of the Agreement and the period of employment of the
employee will occur:
4.2.1 If the employee works for a period of less than six months
(Probationary Period) and the employee asks to end his employment at
the Company, he will give notice of no less than 14 days before the
last day he plans to work. If the Company desires to end the
employee's employment it will give notice of seven days before the
last planned day of work.
4.2.2 If the employee works beyond his probationary period each side will
be required to give at least 60 days notice in order to terminate
the employee's employment at the company.
4.3 If the employee has been given due notice to end his employment with
the Company, the Company will have the option of asking the employee
not to return to work and it will pay the employee all the
compensation due him for the notice period.
4.4 Let it be clarified that if the Company chooses to end the
employment of the employee as written in paragraph 4.3 above, it
will pay due compensation to the employee on the condition that the
employee is not employed by a third party during the period of
notice.
5. Scope of the Position
5.1 The employee will be employed according to the scope of the position
at the Company as described in the Employment Terms Letter.
5.2 The worker agrees to work efficiently as demanded of him by the
Company according to his position. The employee agrees to execute
his position in Israel or abroad according to instructions from the
Company.
6. Requirements of the Employee
6.1 The Employee commits to the company as follows:
6.1.1 During the period of employment the employee will not be employed at
another company or at another position at all, directly or
indirectly, for compensation or for no compensation unless he
receives written permission from the Company.
6.1.2 To work with diligence, professionalism and dedication in order to
execute his work with efficiency, to advance the interests of the
Company and to work with complete loyalty to the Company.
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6.1.3 Not to place himself in a conflict of interest with the Company and
not to be put into a situation of an appearance of a conflict of
interest, - and to report any situation like this that might arise.
6.1.4 Not to make use at all of the property of the Company for personal
use or for the use of others.
6.1.5 Not to put himself in a situation where there will be a conflict
between his interests and that of the Company; if the employee finds
himself in a situation like this he will notify the Company without
delay.
6.1.6 Will not accept from any person or group during the period of his
employ at the Company any gratuity, direct or indirect, connected
with his work at the Company, direct or indirect - and to report
when any gratuity has been offered.
6.1.7 To keep completely confidential all business of the Company and to
refrain from competition with it, as outlined in the agreement.
6.2 The instructions above do not limit the responsibilities of loyalty
to the Company, by law.
7. Directives and Procedures of the Company
7.1 The employee commits to scrupulously keep all the procedures and
directives of the Company as they are at the time of the signing and
as they might change from time to time.
7.2 "Directives and Procedures of the Company" - means - all written and
oral directives and procedures given to the employee.
8. Salary and Related Terms
8.1 The employee will receive compensation from the Company for work
provided as detailed in the Employment Terms Letter.
8.2 The salary will be paid at some point between the first and the
ninth (inclusive) of every month for work done the previous month.
8.3 The amount stated in the Employment Terms Letter is a gross amount;
taxes or other charges will be deducted, according to the law.
8.4 The base salary is the only salary that will be used for determining
"social" benefits if the employee is to get such benefits according
to Appendix B to this agreement.
9. Hours of Work and Rest
The employee will receive overtime pay according to the Employment Terms
Letter.
10. Annual Vacation
The employee will receive annual vacation according to the Employment Terms
Letter and according to the Company procedures for vacation.
11. Health Declaration
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The employee declares that to the best of his knowledge he is of sound
health and can fulfill his responsibilities.
12. Sick Pay
12.1 The employee will receive compensation for sick days according to
the law so long as he provides proper medical documentation.
12.2 It is agreed, that unused sick days of the employee cannot be
redeemed during or after the period of employment.
13. Convalescence Pay
The employee will receive Convalescence pay on an annual basis, according
to the law.
14. Military Reserve Duty
During active reserve duty the employee will receive compensation according
to the law; the worker commits to provide to the company the proper
documentation on his active reserve service in order to provide it to the
National Social Security Agency so that the Company can apply for and
receive its due from the Agency. Non-presentation of the documentation to
the Company will allow the Company to reacquire the salary paid during
active reserve duty.
15. Early Termination of Employment
Without impinging on its rights according to the law, the Company will be
entitled to terminate the employment agreement and to terminate the
employment of the employee immediately and without advanced warning without
termination compensation under the following circumstances:
15.1 It the employee has damaged or made wrongful use of the property of
the Company and/or committed an act in bad faith against the Company
and/or damaged its property or interests on purpose.
15.2 The employee committed a crime which brings disgrace upon the
Company.
15.3 The employee knowingly breached his obligations according to
paragraphs 18 or 19 of this agreement.
16. Transfer of Position
16.1 The employee commits that in the event of termination of his
employment, if he resigned or was terminated, if he receives notice
or not, if he receives compensation or not, that he will hand over
and return immediately all equipment, documents, letters, lists,
reports and all other documents in his possession that relate to the
Company or its business or that is affiliated to it that were in his
possession during the period of his employment according to this
agreement.
16.2 The employee also commits that upon termination of his employment
for any reason at all, he will do everything necessary to hand over
his responsibilities to whomever the Company assigns in an orderly
fashion according to the procedures that are determined, properly
and completely, so that his replacement can execute his job in an
orderly fashion that will not cause harm to the Company.
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17. Payment and Tax Withholding
All salary, social payments and other benefits detailed in this agreement
and its appendices are gross payments and are subject to tax withholding
according to the law. Unless otherwise stated, the company will not on its
own pay taxes or other charges that are the complete responsibility of the
employee.
18. Intellectual Property Rights
18.1 Every discovery, creation, upgrade or idea that will be found or
discovered by the employee during the period of his employment with
the Company, tied to the employee's work and execution of his work
at the Company, or anything tied to the businesses and activities of
the Company including methods, technology, trade secrets,
discoveries, service related discoveries, patents, programs, lists,
diagrams, details , models, plans algorithms (Knowledge) will be the
property of the Company and will belong exclusively to it. The
Company is permitted to act according to its own interests and
register the Knowledge in its name or in the name of any other
person or group, as it deems necessary.
18.2 The employee commits to do all that is necessary from him by the
Company for the purpose of knowing and defending the creations,
discoveries, upgrades or ideas, anywhere that they may be, for the
good of the company and for this to sign any document demanded for
this purpose and to appear before any authority, as demanded.
18.3 In order to clarify any doubts, be it declared that the Company
alone will have all rights indefinitely and for all locations to
make use of the Information as it deems best, as determined above,
including assigning licenses, exclusive or secondary and/or all
dispositions of any type necessary for the uses of the Company; the
employee will not get any compensation and/or rights for any of the
Information.
18.4 The employee will not remove any equipment of documents form the
offices of the Company unless permission is granted by his
superiors.
19. Confidentiality and Non-Competitiveness
19.1 The employee commits to the company confidentiality and
non-competitiveness as detailed in Appendix A of this agreement which
forms an irrevocable part of this agreement.
19.2 The employee declares that he understands that this agreement is
personal and he agrees to keep its contents, including its Appendices,
confidential.
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20. Waivers
Any waivers that the company may have made specifically or not, on the
rights given it according to this agreement will not be a precedent
regarding an identical occurrence and cannot be used as an inference for
other occurrences and will not be used by the Company regarding waivers of
rights in similar circumstances.
21. Changes and Annulments
Any change or annulment of parts of this agreement will be made in writing
and will be singed by both sides, or they will not be in effect.
22. Exclusivity of the Agreement
22.1 This agreement is a specific and personal employment agreement and is
the exclusive document for terms and conditions of the employment of
the employee by the Company.
22.2 This agreement details all that which was agreed between the sides
regarding employment of the employee by the Company. Any promise, term
sheet or other agreement is null and void from the time of the signing
of this document.
23. Notices
The addresses of the parties on the agreement are as determinant. Any
message sent by certified mail to the address noted will be thought of as
received by the addressee three days after its delivery to the Post Office,
and if delivered by hand or facsimile - at the time of sending or delivery,
accordingly.
Signed by Parties:
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Company Employee
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