Plant Manager Ii

Signed by James Rogers **************@******.*** */15/2025 4:07:40 PM UTC 107.115.187.165

May 15, 2025

James Rogers

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Clayton, IN 46118

Dear James,

At 48forty Solutions our associates are our most valuable assets. We are pleased to extend you this offer of Pallet Builder / Repair in US-IN-Indianapolis. You will report to Eric Friddle, Plant Manager II. We look forward to you joining our team. This offer is contingent on successfully passing a drug screen, in accordance with local and state laws and regulations. To fulfill federal identification requirements, you will need to bring documentation to support your identity and eligibility to work in the United States. We must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 and E-Verify within three days of your employment start date. In addition, employment will also be subject to the terms of our Employee Handbook. This offer is valid for the next three (3) days. Outlined below are the terms of our offer.

DATE OF EMPLOYMENT

48forty Solutions is prepared for you to start on or about May 21, 2025. COMPENSATION

Your starting hourly rate will be $15.00 for training, and after your first 60-days of employment you will transition to piece rate. Your piece rate compensation would be the greater of $15.00 per hour or $.30 per pallet, less applicable payroll taxes and withholdings, in accordance with the Company’s payroll practices as amended from time to time. As a piece rate position, the more pallets you repair and/or build the greater opportunity you have to increase your take home wages. For example, if you repair/build 1,750 pallets in a week at $.40 per pallet and work 36 hours a week – you will have a new rate of $19.44 per hour based on production. This position is considered a non-exempt position for purposes of federal wage-hour law, which means that you will be eligible for overtime pay, at one- and one-half times your hourly rate, for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a given workweek.

BENEFITS AND 401(K) PLAN

Benefits will be available to you and your immediate family effective the first of the month, after 60 days of employment. You will have the option to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Plan as amended from time to time after ninety (90) days of employment. You may contribute up to 90% of your salary on a pre-tax basis. The Company will provide a match Signed by James Rogers **************@******.*** 5/15/2025 4:07:40 PM UTC 107.115.187.165 of 100% of the first 3% you contribute, and 50% of the next 2% of your contribution. Vesting is immediate. Details of the plan will be provided to you at enrollment. HOLIDAYS AND PAID TIME OFF

You will be eligible to receive forty (40) hours of PTO annually and begin using accrued time off on the first of the month after 60 days of employment. In addition, 48forty Solutions offers seven (7) paid holidays and one (1) floating holiday each year. AT WILL EMPLOYMENT

We hope that you have a long tenure with 48forty Solutions. However, it is important to understand that all employment with 48forty Solutions is at will, which means that employment can be terminated with or without cause, and for any reason or for no reason whatsoever, and with or without notice, at any time, at the option of either you or 48forty Solutions, except as otherwise provided by law.

James, please accept our sincere welcome as you join 48forty Solutions. We’re excited about our future and what you will bring to the team. We look forward to a mutually rewarding relationship.

Sincerely,

Eric Friddle

Plant Manager II

48forty Solutions

Signed by James Rogers **************@******.*** 5/15/2025 4:07:40 PM UTC 107.115.187.165 EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT

EMPLOYEE will perform services for COMPANY which may require COMPANY to disclose confidential and proprietary information ("Confidential Information") to EMPLOYEE.

(Confidential Information is any information of any kind, nature, or description, whether reduced to tangible form or not, including but not limited to any matters affecting or relating to Employee's services for COMPANY, the business or operations of COMPANY, and/or the products, drawings, plans, processes, or other data of COMPANY). Accordingly, to protect COMPANY Confidential Information that may be disclosed to EMPLOYEE or come into EMPLOYEE’S possession, the EMPLOYEE agrees as follows. A. EMPLOYEE will hold the Confidential Information received from COMPANY in strict confidence and shall exercise a reasonable degree of care to prevent disclosure to others. B. EMPLOYEE will not disclose or divulge either directly or indirectly the Confidential Information to others unless first authorized to do so in writing by COMPANY. C. EMPLOYEE will not reproduce the Confidential Information nor use this information commercially or for any purpose other than the performance of his/her duties for COMPANY.

D. EMPLOYEE will, upon the request or upon termination of his/her relationship with COMPANY, deliver to COMPANY any drawings, notes, documents, equipment, and materials received from COMPANY, belonging to COMPANY, or originating from its activities for COMPANY.

E. COMPANY shall have the sole right to determine the treatment of any information that is part or project specific received from EMPLOYEE, including the right to keep the same as a trade secret, to use and disclose the same without prior patent applications, to file copyright registrations in its own name or to follow any other procedure as COMPANY may deem appropriate.

F. COMPANY reserves the right to take disciplinary action, up to and including termination for violations of this agreement.

G. CORPORATE OFFICE is located at 11740 Katy Freeway, STE 1200 in Houston, TX 77079. H. WORKERS COMPENSATION CARRIER is the Hartford Company located at 7400 College Blvd., STE 500 in Overland Park, KS 66210. Their phone number is 866-***-****. Policy number is 20 WN S65608.

EMPLOYEE represents and warrants that it is not under any preexisting obligations inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement.

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