Changes in Employment Arrangements. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall adopt or amend (except as may be required by law) any bonus, profit sharing, compensation, stock option, pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment or other employee benefit plan, agreement, trust, fund or other arrangement (including any Company Benefit Plan) for the benefit of any employee, director or former director or employee, increase the compensation or benefits of any officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or, except as provided in an existing Company Benefit Plan or in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, increase the compensation or benefits of any employee or former employee or pay any benefit not required by any existing plan, arrangement or agreement.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Crystal Gas Storage Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (El Paso Energy Corp/De)
Changes in Employment Arrangements. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall adopt or amend (except as may be required by law) any bonus, profit sharing, compensation, stock option, pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment or other employee benefit plan, agreement, trust, fund or other arrangement (including any Company Benefit Plan) for the benefit of any employee, director or former director or employee, increase the compensation or fringe benefits of any officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or, except as provided in an existing Company Benefit Plan or in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, increase the compensation or fringe benefits of any employee or former employee or pay any benefit not required by any existing plan, arrangement or agreement.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Daniel Industries Inc), Agreement and Plan (Emersub Lxxiv Inc)