13. Disclaimer of Liability and Client Indemnification. CFS has no liability to Client for any claim, loss, or liability of any kind (including those arising out of an alleged “joint employer” relationship) resulting from or otherwise arising out of any of the following:
(a) Client’s failure to adequately supervise or control Contract Workers, provide a safe and lawful work environment or safeguard Client’s premises, processes, or systems.
(b) Client’s entrusting Contract Workers with unattended premises, cash, checks, keys, credit cards, merchandise, confidential or trade secret information, negotiable instruments, or other valuables, without CFS’s express prior written approval.
(c) Client’s requesting or permitting Contract Workers to use any vehicle, regardless of ownership, in connection with the performance of services for Client, unless CFS has given its prior written approval.
(d) Claims by Contract Workers for benefits, compensation, contributions, or penalties under any employee benefit plans sponsored and maintained by Client, whether or not Client’s plans exclude Contract Workers from coverage.1
(e) Promises of increased compensation, bonuses, or benefits made by Client to Contract Workers.
(f) Claims by any person relating to Client’s product or service.
(g) Client’s assigning Contract Workers to duties different from their original duties for which CFS supplied the Contract Worker to Client as per the Rate Schedule,or Client’s making substantial changes to Contract Workers’ job duties or risks without CFS’s prior written approval.
(h) Claims by any person based on allegations that Client’s business activities damaged the environment.
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Before beginning their assignments, Contract Workers will be asked to acknowledge that they have no right to participate in Client’s employee benefit plans, fringe benefit plans, or bonus plans. An example Contract Worker Acknowledgement and Consent is attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B.
(i) Failure by Client to provide Contract Workers with a safe work site and/or a site that is compliant with all applicable federal, state and local health and safety laws. This includes but is not limited to, the mandatory use of hard hats, eye protection, gloves, proper foot wear, and ear protection. All tools and equipment on site, i.e., hand tools, power tools, ladders, scaffolding, etc., must be inspected and in good working order. All required guard rails and blade guards will be in place and in proper working order.
(j) Claims related to failure to do alcohol or drug testing or to conduct background checks, which CFS may not do absent a specific separate agreement with Client to pay for and assume responsibility for such tests or background checks.
(k) Claims for special, indirect, consequential, punitive, or lost profit damages.
(l) A violation by Client of any law, statute, or regulation by Client, or its officers, employees, and/or agents, including violation of applicable federal, state, and local labor and employment laws. This includes, but is not limited to, allowing ample time for rest and meal periods as required under applicable law, maintaining a work environment that is not discriminatory, harassing, or retaliatory based any protected category under federal, state, or local law, and/or providing a reasonable amount of unpaid break time to accommodate a female employee’s need to express milk for a nursing child up to three years old.
(m) Property damage or personal injury, including death, arising out of, or resulting from, acts or omissions of the Contract Workers.
Client shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify, defend and/or hold CFS, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, including their officers, directors, representatives, affiliates, consultants, agents, and employees (hereinafter “Releasees”) harmless, from and against any and all liabilities, damages, losses, expenses, claims, demands, suits, settlement payments, penalties, fines, interest, judgments of any kind, however arising, including costs,attorneys’ fees and expenses incident thereto, which may be suffered by, accrue against, be charged to or recoverable from any of the Releasees, by reason of (a) any failure of or breach by the Client or Client employee(s) to comply with any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, those listed Paragraphs 7 through 13 and the Rate Schedule; (b) acts or omissions of the Client or Client employee(s) related to any claims by
Contract Workers for bodily injury to or death of persons, or loss of, damage to or destruction of property; (c) any demand, claim, charge, suit or accusation of any kind of direct or vicarious
liability based on conduct of any kind by Client and/or Client’s officers, employees, and/or agents allegedly imputed to CFS or any of Releasees as the “employer” or “joint employer” concerning any claim brought under any federal, state, or local statute, law, regulation, or ordinance, including, but not limited to, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 42 U.S.C. sections 1981 and/or 1983, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, the Family and Medical
Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the U.S. Constitution, all similar state and local statutory employment claims, and any common law claims including, but not limited to, claims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant
of good faith and fair dealing, violation of public policy, whistle blowing, negligent hiring, supervision and/or retention, assault, battery, defamation, false imprisonment, and tortious interference. The Client shall cooperate with CFS and its counsel in the defense of any such claim or lawsuit at the Client’s expense. This Paragraph shall survive any termination of this Agreement.