Cause

Example Definitions of "Cause"
Cause. (a) conviction (including a guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere) of any felony; (b) commission or attempted commission of or participation in a fraud or act of dishonesty or misrepresentation against the Company; (c) willful and continued failure to follow the lawful directions of the Board or the officers of the Company to whom you report, and failure to cure such failure within a reasonable time after receiving written notice from the Company of the claimed failure; (d) deliberate harm or... injury, or attempt to deliberately harm or injure, the Company; (e) willful misconduct that materially discredits or harms the Company or its reputation; (f) material violation or breach of any written and fully executed contract or agreement between you and the Company, including without limitation, material breach of your Confidentiality Agreement, or of any Company policy, or of any statutory duty you owe to the Company; (g) gross negligence or willful misconduct; (h) failure to cooperate with any investigation as requested by the Board or officers of the Company to whom you report or (i) unauthorized use of confidential information that causes material harm to the Company. The determination that a termination is for Cause shall be made by the Company in its sole discretion. View More
Cause. (i) the commission by the Employee of any act or omission that would constitute a felony or any crime of moral turpitude under Federal law or the law of the state or foreign law in which such action occurred, (ii) dishonesty, disloyalty, fraud, embezzlement, theft, engagement of competitive activity, disclosure of trade secrets or confidential information or other acts or omissions that result in a breach of the duty of loyalty or a breach of fiduciary duties or other material duty to the... Employer and its subsidiaries, (iii) continued reporting to work or working under the influence of alcohol, an illegal drug, an intoxicant or a controlled substance which renders Employee incapable of performing his or her material duties to the satisfaction of the Employer and/or its subsidiaries, (iv) the Employee's failure to substantially perform Employee's duties and/or responsibilities with respect to the Employer and its subsidiaries, (v) Employee's material breach of any of the Employer's or its subsidiaries' policies or procedures, or (vi) willful damage by Employee to Employer or its subsidaries assets View More
Cause. That the Executive has (i) committed any act of willful misconduct, including fraud, in connection with his employment by the Company; (ii) materially breached any provision of this Agreement, which breach has not been cured within ten business days after receiving written notice of such breach; (iii) failed, refused or neglected, other than by reason of a Total Disability, to timely perform any material duty or obligation under this Agreement or to comply with any lawful directive of the... Board, which failure, refusal or neglect has not been cured within ten business days after receiving written notice thereof; (iv) been formally indicted for a crime involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, fraud or unethical business conduct; (v) violated a fiduciary obligation to the Company; (vi) been determined by a governmental body or other appropriate authority to have violated any material law or regulation that is applicable to the Company's businesses, or entered into a consent order concerning a violation of any material law or regulation that is applicable to the Company's businesses; or (vii) become the subject of an SEC action or administrative proceeding which has been commenced against him. Upon a cure of the acts set forth in subsections (ii) or (iii) by the Executive within the ten business day cure period to the reasonable satisfaction of the Board, such event shall no longer constitute Cause for purposes of this Agreement. View More
Cause. Your (1) dereliction of duty to the Company; (2) your conviction for a felony; or (3) your willful misconduct that has a substantial adverse effect on the Company
Cause. Will have the same meaning as such term is expressly defined in the then-effective written agreement between the Grantee and the Company or a Related Entity with respect to the termination by the Company or a Related Entity of the Grantee's Continuous Service (unless a different definition is specified in the Option Agreement)
Cause. With regard to each specific Participant, the same meaning ascribed to such term or a similar term as set forth in any agreements and/the Participant's employment agreement or other documents to which the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates and the Participant are a party concerning the provision of services by the Participant to the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates, or, in the absence of such a definition: (a) the commission of a crime of... moral turpitude, unless the Board determines that such commission shall not adversely affect the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates, or their reputation, or the ability of the Participant's to serve the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates; (b) any act of personal dishonesty by the Participant in connection with the Participant's responsibilities to the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates, including, but not limited to, theft, embezzlement, or self-dealing, (c) any material breach (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion) by the Participant engagement in competing activities, any disclosure of confidential information of the Company or any of its parent, subsidiaries and/or Affiliates or breach of any obligation not to violate a restrictive covenant; (d) a material breach of the Participant's employment agreement or the agreement governing the provision of services by a non-employee agent, consultant, adviser or independent contractor which are not cured (if curable) within seven (7) days after receipt of written notice thereof; or (e) if the Participant is an Employee residing in Israel, any other circumstances under which severance pay (or part of them) may be denied from the Participant upon termination of employment under the applicable Israeli law View More
Cause. A Senior Executive's (i) personal dishonesty, (ii) incompetence, (iii) willful misconduct, (iv) breach of a fiduciary duty involving personal profit, (v) intentional failure to perform stated duties, (vi) willful violation of any law, rule or regulation (other than traffic violations or similar offenses) or final cease-and-desist order, (vii) conviction of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, (viii) misappropriation of the Company's assets (determined on a reasonable basis)... or those of the Bank, (ix) death, or (x) disability as defined in a policy of long-term disability insurance maintained by the Company or the Bank for the benefit of the Senior Executive. View More
Cause. The good faith and reasonable determination of the Board that the Executive has: (i) been grossly negligent or engaged in willful misconduct, fraud, embezzlement, acts of dishonesty or a conflict of interest (to the extent such conflict of interest materially harms the Company), in each case, relating to the affairs of the Company; provided, that "Cause" shall not be deemed to exist under this clause (A) unless Executive has been given written notice specifying the act or omission constituting... Cause and Executive has failed to cure such act or omission within thirty (30) days after receiving such notice; provided further, that such notice and cure right shall not be required to be given if the act or omission giving rise to the determination that Cause exists is not, in the reasonable determination of the Board, susceptible of cure; (ii) been convicted of or pleaded nolo contendere to any felony crime or been involved in the commission of any act (i) involving (A) misuse or misappropriation of money or other property of Company or (B) repeated use of illegal substances; or (ii) which disparages the business integrity of the Company, its directors, employees or customers, and materially and adversely affects the business reputation of Company; or (iii) engaged in a willful violation of any federal or state securities laws. View More
Cause. (i) an act of personal dishonesty taken by Executive in connection with his responsibilities as an employee which is intended to result in substantial personal enrichment of Executive, (ii) Executive's conviction of or plea of nolo contendere to a felony, (iii) an act by Executive which constitutes willful misconduct and is materially injurious to the Company, (iv) continued willful derelictions of Executive's material duties to the Company after there has been delivered to Executive a written... demand for performance from the Company which describes the basis for the Company's reasonable belief that Executive has been willfully derelict in discharging his material duties, (v) Executive's deliberate violation of a material Company policy, (vi) Executive's commission of any act of fraud, embezzlement, dishonesty or any other willful misconduct that has caused or is reasonably expected to result in material injury to the Company, or (vii) Executive's willful and material breach of his obligations under this Agreement, the Confidential Information Agreement or any other written agreement with the Company. View More
Cause. A serious reason pursuant to Article 2094 of the Civil Code of Quebec and includes, without limitation, (a) Executive's breach of a material term of this Agreement; (b) Executive's conviction of a criminal offence involving fraud or dishonesty, or which otherwise adversely impacts the reputation of the Company; (c) Executive or any member of Executive's immediate family making personal profit out of or in connection with a transaction or business opportunity to which the Company is involved or... otherwise associated with, without making disclosure to and seeking the prior written consent of the Company; (d) Executive's failure to comply with any Company rules or policies of a material nature; (e) prior to a Change of Control, Executive's continued failure to substantially perform her job duties, which is not cured within ten (10) calendar days of receiving written notice of such failure from the Company; (f) any actions or omissions on Executive's part constituting gross misconduct or negligence in connection with the business of the Company. View More
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