Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-004105
Chunk: 39

Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: 425
Chunk 39
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 any deferral elections thereunder are in documentary compliance with and have been maintained and operated in compliance with its terms and the operational
and documentary requirements of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations thereunder. Neither ESSA, ESSA Bank nor any of their Subsidiaries has any obligation to gross up, indemnify or otherwise reimburse any current or former officer,
director, employee or service provider of ESSA, ESSA Bank or any of their Subsidiaries for any Taxes incurred by such individual pursuant to Section 409A of the Code.

Section 3.17 .

(a) None of ESSA or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement, contract or other agreement or
understanding with a labor union or labor organization, nor is ESSA or any of its Subsidiaries the subject of a proceeding asserting that it has committed an unfair labor practice (within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended)
or seeking to compel ESSA or any of its Subsidiaries to bargain with any labor organization as to wages or conditions of employment, nor is there any strike or other labor dispute involving it pending or, to ESSA’s Knowledge, threatened, nor is
ESSA or any of its Subsidiaries aware of any activity involving its employees seeking to certify a collective bargaining unit or engaging in other organizational activity.

(b) ESSA and each of its Subsidiaries is in material compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, rules and regulations respecting
employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment of employees, former employees and prospective employees, wages and hours, pay equity, discrimination in employment, wrongful discharge, collective bargaining, fair labor
standards, occupational health and safety, personal rights or any other labor and employment-related matters.

(c) ESSA and each of its
Subsidiaries has paid in full to all of its employees or adequately accrued in accordance with GAAP all wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, benefits and other compensation due to or on behalf of such employees. ESSA and each of its Subsidiaries
has properly classified all of its service providers as either employees or independent contractors and as exempt or non-exempt for all purposes (including for purposes of the ESSA Benefit Plans), if
applicable, and has made all appropriate filings in connection with services provided by, and compensation paid to, such service providers.

(d) During