SENIOR MANAGEMENT
EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT
Employment Agreement (hereinafter called
“Agreement”) made as of this 31 st day of
October, 2008, between Butler International, Inc., (hereinafter
called “Employer”) and Gerald Simone (hereinafter
called “Employee”). Employer and Employee agrees as
follows:
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1.
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The Employee warrants and agrees to all of the
following:
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(a) to
devote his/her entire skill, labor and attention to
Employer’s business and to promptly perform all services
pertaining to Employee’s position;
(b) that
Employer may set-off against any wages or other compensation due
the Employee any amounts owed by the Employee to the
Employer;
(c) that
Employee will not knowingly use any trade secret, confidential
information, or other intellectual property right of another in the
performance of the Employee’s duties for Employer;
and
(d) that
there is no written or oral contract or any other impediment that
would in any way inhibit or otherwise prohibit Employee’s
employment hereunder.
2. If
Employer pays Employee a monthly car allowance, it will be subject
to payroll deductions and federal, state and local income tax
withholding. The car allowance covers all costs for use of
Employee’s car on Employer’s business including for
example repairs, insurance and depreciation except fuel costs. Fuel
costs incurred on company business is the sole additional expense
reimbursable by Employer at a rate to be determined from time to
time by Employer. The car allowance shall be prorated for partial
months of employment and is not payable during the employment
termination notice period referenced in clause seven (7)
below.
3. Subject
to applicable law, Employee for a period of one (1) year from the
date of termination of this Agreement, either directly or
indirectly, for his own purposes or those of another person or
entity:
(a) will
not solicit business similar to that of Employer’s from
Employer’s clients that Employee may have contacted or been
assigned to at any time during employment with Employer;
and
(b) will
not contact or approach, any employee and/or consultant of Employer
including staff and billable employees for the purpose of
attempting to or actually soliciting or hiring that
person.
Employee agrees that should Employer
seek to enforce or determine its rights under this clause three (3)
because of an act of the Employee that the Employer believes to be
in violation of this clause, the one-year time period stated above
shall be extended by the time necessary to obtain judicial
enforcement of the Employer’s rights hereunder. Should a
court of competent jurisdiction determine that this Clause three
(3) is unenforceable, the parties agree that this clause three (3)
shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law. Employee
agrees that sections three (a) and three (b) are separate and
distinct promises and that unenforceability of one has no effect on
the enforceability of the other.
4. Employee agrees
that any inventions, discoveries, improvements, or works which are
conceived, developed, suggested by, or created in anticipation of,
in the course of or related to Employer’s business including
work done by the Employee and all corresponding patents or
copyrights shall become the absolute property of the
Employer.
Employee agrees that all information
of a technical or business nature, such as know-how, trade secrets,
business plans, data, programs, processes, techniques, software,
customer contacts, customer lists, customer information, financial
information, employee information, employment candidate
information, inventions, discoveries, formulae, patterns, and
devices (collectively the “Confidential Information”)
acquired by Employee in the course of his/her employment is
valuable proprietary and confidential information of Employer.
Employee agrees that such Confidential Information, whether in
written, verbal or model form, shall be maintained in strict
confidence and shall not be disclosed to anyone outside the
employment of Employer without Employer’s express written
consent
Employee further agrees not to
utilize or make available any such knowledge or information either
directly or indirectly in connection with the establishment of an
enterprise similar to that of the Employer or which will compete
with Employer, or in connection with the solicitation, acceptance,
or conduct of employment with any other employer. Employee is not,
however, prohibited from utilizing the knowledge and information
gained from his/her general experience obtained prior to or during
his/her employment with Employer.
Upon termination of Employee’s
employment, Employee shall immediately return and deliver to
Employer all information and property of Employer. Employee shall
not retain any originals or copies of any Employer information or
property including for example, books, papers, price lists,
customer contracts, financial information, employee and candidate
information, bids, customer lists, files, notebooks or any
documents, property, or information containing any Confidential
Information or information that otherwise relates to
Employer’s business.
Employee agrees not to defame, disparage or
demean Employer, Employer’s officers or directors in any
manner whatsoever, except Employee may make truthful statements
required by legal process issued by a court or tribunal of
competent jurisdiction.
5. Employee
acknowledges that his breach of clauses 3 and/or 4 may result in
irrepar