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ARTICLE X
EMPLOYEE MATTERS
Without undertaking any obligation to hire any employee or group of employees of Sellers, to the extent practical and consistent with its hiring needs and standards, AirTran agrees to undertake good faith efforts to employ individual qualified existing employees of Sellers resident in Chicago as new employees of AirTran. In furtherance of and subject to the foregoing, AirTran (i) presently expects that at such time as all of its services and flight schedules from the Midway Gates are operated with its own aircraft the number of full and part-time jobs required to perform the airside and landside operations at the Midway Gates will be substantially the same as the number of such jobs in place as of the Execution Date, subject to normal seasonal adjustment; (ii) intends to make good faith efforts to itself, or through third party vendors, provide preferential hiring consideration for such jobs to current, active individual employees of Seller, resident in Chicago, presently working in such positions at Midway; (iii) expects that it will, and will endeavor to require any third party vendors to, make job applications and/or interviews available to current, active employees of Seller and conduct or cause to be conducted job fairs or other similar opportunities for applications to be made for such available positions; (iv) believes that the current work experience of such active employees of Seller will be an important consideration in evaluating all such employees; and (v) currently intends also to give preferential hiring consideration on the same basis set out above to current, actively employed Midway based mechanics, flight and in-flight personnel, resident in Chicago, for Chicago based mechanic, flight and in-flight positions. It is contemplated that, with respect to all such positions set out in the preceding sentences, preferential hiring consideration will continue for a period of one-year after the Execution Date.
