3. Release of All Claims.
(a) Executive’s Release of All Claims. Executive, for and in consideration of the commitments of the Company, including those set forth in the section entitled “Consideration to Executive for Signing This Agreement,” and intending to be legally bound, does hereby REMISE, RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE the Company, its affiliates, subsidiaries and parents, and its officers, directors, employees, and agents, and its and their respective successors and assigns, heirs, executors, trustees, fiduciaries and administrators (collectively, “Releasees”) from all causes of action, suits, debts, claims and demands whatsoever in law or in equity, which Executive ever had, now has, or hereafter may have, whether known or unknown, or which Executive heirs, executors, or administrators may have, by reason of any matter, cause or thing whatsoever, from the beginning of Executive’s employment to the date Executive signs this Agreement, and particularly, but without limitation of the foregoing general terms, any claims arising from, or relating in any way to Executive’s employment relationship with Company, the terms and conditions of the employment relationship, and the termination of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, any claims arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (except as to claims for vested benefits, including but not limited to 401k benefits), the Workers Adjustment Retraining Notification Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the False Claims Act, and any other claims under any federal, state or local common law, statutory, or regulatory provision, now or hereafter recognized, and any claims for attorneys’ fees and costs. Executive specifically acknowledges that during Executive’s employment, (i) Executive was provided notice of all rights permitted under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), understood those rights, was allowed to take all leave and afforded all other rights to which Executive is entitled under the FMLA, (ii) the Company has not in any way interfered with, restrained or denied Executive’s exercise of (or attempt to exercise) any FMLA rights, nor terminated or otherwise discriminated against Executive for exercising (or attempting to exercise) any such rights, and (iii) Executive was not treated differently or in any way discriminated against because of Executive’s age. This Agreement is effective without regard to the legal nature of the claims raised and without regard to whether any such claims are based upon tort, equity, implied or express contract or discrimination of any sort. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to require Executive to release any claims that cannot lawfully be released.
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