Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 48

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 48
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); to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no representation or certification proceedings or petitions
seeking a representation or decertification proceeding presently pending or threatened in writing to be brought or filed with the National Labor Relations Board or any other labor relations tribunal or authority; and to the Knowledge of the Company,
there are no material organizing or decertification activities by or with respect to any Company Business Personnel. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has in the past three years engaged in any unfair labor practice with respect to any
Company Business Personnel, and there is no unfair labor practice complaint or grievance or other administrative or judicial complaint, action or investigation pending or threatened in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by the
National Labor Relations Board or any other Governmental Entity with respect to any present or former Company Business Personnel which would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect. There
is no labor strike, dispute, lockout, slowdown, stoppage, or other material labor dispute

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pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, have complied in all
material respects with all of its obligations under each collective bargaining agreement and each other agreement or arrangement with any Union.

(b) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will incur any notice, consultation or consent obligations with respect to any labor
union, works council or other employee representative body in connection with the execution of this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, in each case, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
(i) prevent or materially delay consummation of the Merger or other Transactions or (ii) have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

(c) The Company and its Subsidiaries are and have since the Applicable Date been in compliance with all applicable Laws respecting employment
and employment practices, including, without limitation, all Laws respecting terms and conditions of employment, health and safety, wage payment, wages and hours, pay equity, child labor, fair labor standards, collective bargaining, immigration and
work authorizations, background checks, employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, notices, privacy, record retention, whistleblowing, civil rights, veterans’ rights, disability rights or benefits, equal opportunity, plant closures
and layoffs, affirmative action, workers’ compensation,