NextEV is excited about you joining and looks forward to a beneficial and fruitful relationship. Nevertheless, you should be aware that your employment with NextEV is for no specified period and constitutesat-will employment. As a result, you are free to resign at any time, for any reason or for no reason. Similarly, NextEV is free to conclude its employment relationship with you at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice.
NextEV reserves the right to conduct background investigations and/or reference checks on all of its potential employees. Your job offer, therefore, is contingent upon a clearance of such a background investigation and/or reference check, if any.
For purposes of federal immigration law, you will be required to provide to the NextEV documentary evidence of your identity and eligibility for employment in the United States. Such documentation must be provided to us within three (3) business days of your date of hire, or our employment relationship with you may be terminated.
We also ask that, if you have not already done so, you disclose to NextEV any and all agreements (including those relating to your prior employment) that may affect your eligibility to be employed by NextEV or limit the manner in which you may be employed. It is NextEV’s understanding that any such agreements will not prevent you from performing the duties of your position and you represent that such is the case. You understand that the existence of any agreement that could affect your eligibility to be employed by NextEV or limit the manner in which you may be employed that has not been disclosed to us prior to the date of this letter constitutes grounds for termination. Moreover, you agree that, during the term of your employment with NextEV, you will not engage in any other employment, occupation, consulting, or other business activity directly related to the business in which NextEV is now involved or becomes involved during the term of your employment, nor will you engage in any other activities that conflict with your obligations to the NextEV, provided that the foregoing will not prevent you from (i) participating on the boards of directors of your Permitted Directorships or engaging in other permitted outside activities, listed on Exhibit E or (ii) managing your passive personal investments so long as such activities in the aggregate do not materially interfere or conflict with your duties hereunder or create a potential business or fiduciary conflict. Similarly, you agree not to bring any third-party confidential information to NextEV, including that of your former employer, and that you will not in any way utilize any such information in performing your duties for NextEV.
As a NextEV employee, you will be expected to abide by NextEV’s rules and standards, and the NextEV’s rules of conduct which are included in the NextEV Handbook.
As a condition of your employment, you will also be required to sign and comply with anAt-Will Employment, Confidential Information, Invention Assignment, and Arbitration Agreement (the “Arbitration Agreement”), which requires, among other provisions, the assignment of patent rights to any invention made during your employment at NextEV, andnon-disclosure of proprietary information (it being understood that you shall at all times remain free to disclose your roles, responsibilities and experiences at NextEV as part of any autobiographical work or project or professional resume or compilation, so long as such disclosure does not involve sensitive and confidential technical or proprietary information). You will also be required to sign and comply with a Severance Agreement in the form agreed to as Exhibit F. In the event of any dispute or claim relating to or arising out of our employment relationship, you and NextEV agree to an arbitration in which (i) you are waiving any and all rights to a jury trial but all court remedies will be available in arbitration, (ii) we agree that all disputes between you and the NextEV shall be fully and finally resolved by binding arbitration, (iii) all disputes shall be resolved by a neutral arbitrator who shall issue a written opinion, (iv) the arbitration shall provide for adequate discovery, and (v) NextEV shall pay all the arbitration fees, except an amount equal to the filing fees you would have paid had you filed a complaint in a court of law. Such arbitration shall take place under the laws of the State of California and at a mutually agreed upon location in San Jose, California.
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