(b) AB has made available to GBCI all material personnel manuals, handbooks, or policies, rules or procedures applicable to Employees and the terms of their employment. Each of AB and its AB Subsidiaries are and since January 1, 2018, have been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws respecting hiring and employment, including but not limited to, discrimination or harassment in employment, retaliation, reasonable accommodation, terms and conditions of employment, termination of employment, wages, overtime classification, hours, leaves of absence, occupational safety and health, employee whistle-blowing, immigration, employee privacy, employment practices and classification of employees, consultants and independent contractors, in each case, except any noncompliance which would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on AB. Other than as listed on Schedule 3.1.15, no Employee has a written contract or agreement that prohibits such person from being dismissed immediately and without prior notice to such Employee and without liability to AB or any AB Subsidiary (other than for salary or wages for time worked and benefits earned prior to the date of such termination). AB has provided to GBCI a true and complete list of all independent contractors and consultants to AB or an AB Subsidiary, including such contractor or consultant’s name, date of commencement, and rate of compensation payable, and all such consultants can be terminated immediately and without prior notice to the consultant.
3.1.16 Employee Benefits.
(a) AB has no ERISA Affiliates (other than the Bank).
(b) For purposes of this Agreement, “Plan,” or “Plans,” individually or collectively, means any “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, maintained by AB, the Bank or any other AB Subsidiary, as the case may be. AB and the AB Subsidiaries are not now nor have ever been a contributing employer to, or sponsor of, a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) or a single employer plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(c) Schedule 3.1.16(c) sets forth a list, as of the Execution Date, of (i) all Plans, stock purchase plans, restricted stock and stock option plans, and other deferred compensation arrangements, and (ii) all other material employee benefit plans, programs, policies, agreements, collective bargaining agreements, or other arrangements providing for compensation, severance, incentive compensation, bonuses, performance awards, or other compensation, or for fringe, retirement, death, disability or medical benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind, whether written or unwritten, funded or unfunded, and whether or not subject to ERISA, that is or has been sponsored, maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by AB or any AB Subsidiary for the benefit of any employees or former employees of AB or any AB Subsidiary (collectively, “Employees”), including, without limitation, all salary continuation or supplementation agreements between AB or any AB Subsidiary and any of their respective officers, directors, or employees (collectively, the “Compensation Plans”). True and complete copies of the Compensation Plans (and, as applicable, copies of summary plan descriptions, summary of material modifications, governmental filings (on Form 5500 series or otherwise) and actuarial reports relating to such Compensation Plans), including plan documents and related amendments, and all material correspondence relating to any Compensation Plan from or with any Governmental Authority in the last five years, as well as each plan’s most recent determination, opinion, or advisory letter from the Internal Revenue Service, if any, have been made available to GBCI.
(d) All of the Compensation Plans have been maintained, and are, in all material respects, in compliance (both in form and operation) with any applicable Laws, including ERISA and the IRC. Each Plan that is an “employee pension benefit plan” within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(2) and that is intended to be qualified under IRC Section 401(a), has either received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service or consists of a master, prototype, or volume submitter plan which has received an opinion or advisory letter from the Internal Revenue Service and, as of the date hereof no such determination letter has been revoked, no revocation has been threatened, and, to the Knowledge of AB, nothing has occurred since the date of such letter that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of each such Plan. All such
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