10. Restructuring Costs

In June 2018, the Company announced a reduction in its workforce, which resulted in the termination of several employees primarily from the Company’s commercial and clinical teams, representing approximately thirty percent of its employees. This workforce reduction, along with other reductions in planned operating expenses is designed to preserve cash while the Company pursued formal dispute resolution with the FDA for Twirla and determines a regulatory path forward for the resubmission of the Company’s NDA for Twirla.

In June 2018, the Company also announced that it had adopted a retention plan (the “Retention Plan”) to provide (i) cash retention payments to all remaining employees in order to induce such employees to remain employed by the Company through December 31, 2018 and (ii) stock option grants to all remaining employees in order to induce such employees to remain employed by the Company through December 31, 2019.

Each employee who participated in the Retention Plan (the “Retention Plan Participants”) and (i) remained continuously employed by the Company through December 31, 2018 or (ii) had been terminated by the Company other than for cause (as defined in an applicable employment agreement, or, if no employment agreement existed, as determined by the Company in good faith) prior to December 31, 2018, were paid a lump-sum cash payment in an amount determined by the compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”) of the Company’s board of directors at the time of the adoption of the Retention Plan. The total amount of the cash portion of the Retention Plan was approximately $0.6 million and was paid out to the Retention Plan Participants in January 2019.

In addition, each Retention Plan Participant was granted a stock option to purchase the number of shares of common stock as approved by the Compensation Committee, with a per share exercise price of $0.58, representing the closing price of the Company’s common stock as reported by Nasdaq on the date the Retention Plan was approved by the Compensation Committee. Each option vests in four equal 25% installments on the following dates: (i) June 20, 2018, (ii) December 31, 2018, (iii) June 30, 2019 and (iv) December 31, 2019.

A summary of accrued restructuring costs, included as a component of accrued liabilities on the Company’s unaudited June 30, 2019 balance sheet is as follows:


	December 31,						June 30,
	2018		Charges		Payments		2019
2018 Restructuring (severance)	$	638	$	—	$	(638)	$	—
Total	$	638	$	—	$	(638)	$	—