Company’s Payment Obligation. Conditional On Participant's Availability for Advisory and Consultative Services after Severance of Employment. (a) It is a further condition of the Company's obligation to make payments hereunder that from the date of the occurrence of an event described in (b), (c) or (d) of Section 1 of Article IV hereof that shall have given rise to the obligation to pay and until the close of the last calendar year in respect of which the Participant may become entitled to receive payments hereunder, that the Participant, if not physically or mentally disabled, shall, as an independent contractor and upon not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice from the Company, make his or her services available to the Company for such periods of time as may be specified in the notice, as an advisor and consultant with respect to activities of the department or unit of the Employer's business to which the Participant was last assigned, provided, however, that the Participant shall not be obligated to make his or her services available (i) for more than sixty (60) days in the aggregate and for more than twenty (20) consecutive days in any one calendar year, and (ii) during the period December 15 through January 15. The Company shall reimburse the Participant for reasonable traveling, transportation and living expenses necessarily incurred by the Participant while away from his or her regular place of residence in the performance of such advisory and consultative services for the Company. (b) In the event the Participant chooses not to render advisory and consultative services when requested by the Company as provided in Subsection (a) above, the Company's obligation to make payments hereunder shall forthwith terminate as to payments which might otherwise have become payable to the Participant in respect of the calendar year in which such event occurred and to the Participant or the Beneficiary in respect of all calendar years thereafter, but the Participant shall not be obligated to refund to the Company any payments theretofore paid to Participant hereunder.
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Samples: Executive Salary Continuation Plan Agreement (Omnicom Group Inc), Executive Salary Continuation Plan Agreement (Omnicom Group Inc), Executive Salary Continuation Plan Agreement (Omnicom Group Inc)
Company’s Payment Obligation. Conditional On Participant's Availability for Advisory and Consultative Services after Severance of Employment.
(a) It is a further condition of the Company's obligation to make payments hereunder that from the date of the occurrence of an event described in (b), (c) or (d) of Section 1 of Article IV III hereof that shall have given rise to the obligation to pay and until the close of the last calendar year in respect of which the Participant may become entitled to receive payments hereunder, that the Participant, if not physically or mentally disabled, shall, as an independent contractor and upon not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice from the Company, make his or her services available to the Company for such periods of time as may be specified in the notice, as an advisor and consultant with respect to activities of the department or unit of the Employer's business to which the Participant was last assigned, provided, however, that the Participant shall not be obligated to make his or her services available (i) for more than sixty (60) days in the aggregate and for more than twenty (20) consecutive days in any one calendar year, and (ii) during the period December 15 through January 15. The Company shall reimburse the Participant for reasonable traveling, transportation and living expenses necessarily incurred by the Participant while away from his or her regular place of residence in the performance of such advisory and consultative services for the Company.
(b) In the event the Participant chooses not to render advisory and consultative services when requested by the Company as provided in Subsection (a) above, the Company's obligation to make payments hereunder shall forthwith terminate as to payments which might otherwise have become payable to the Participant in respect of the calendar year in which such event occurred and to the Participant or the Beneficiary in respect of all calendar years thereafter, but the Participant shall not be obligated to refund to the Company any payments theretofore paid to Participant hereunder.
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Samples: Severance Compensation Agreement (Omnicom Group Inc)