Employees; Benefit Plans (a) Following the Closing Date and except to the extent an alternative treatment is set forth in this Section 5.14, CZFS may choose to maintain any or all of the HVBC Benefit Plans in its sole discretion and HVBC shall cooperate with CZFS in order to effect any plan terminations to be made as of the Effective Time. For the period commencing at the Effective Time and ending 12 months after the Effective Time (or until the applicable Continuing Employee’s earlier termination of employment), CZFS shall provide, or cause to be provided, to each employee of HVBC or HVB who continues with the Surviving Bank as of the Closing Date (a “Continuing Employee”) (i) a base salary or a base rate of pay at least equal to the base salary or base rate of pay provided to similarly situated employees of CZFS or any Subsidiary of CZFS and (ii) other benefits (other than severance, termination pay or equity compensation) at least substantially comparable in the aggregate to the benefits provided to similarly situated employees of CZFS or any Subsidiary of CZFS. For any HVBC Benefit Plan terminated for which there is a comparable employee benefit or compensation plan, program, policy, agreement or arrangement of CZFS or any of its Subsidiaries (a “CZFS Benefit Plan”) of general applicability, CZFS shall take all commercially reasonable action so that Continuing Employees shall be entitled to participate in such CZFS Benefit plan to the same extent as similarly-situated employees of CZFS (it being understood that inclusion of the employees of HVBC and HVB in the CZFS Benefit Plans may occur at different times with respect to different plans). CZFS shall cause each CZFS Benefit Plan in which Continuing Employees are eligible to participate to take into account for purposes of eligibility and vesting under the CZFS Benefit Plans (but not for purposes of benefit accrual) the service of such employees with HVBC or HVB to the same extent as such service was credited for such purpose by HVBC or HVB; provided, however, that such service shall not be recognized to the extent that such recognition would result in a duplication of benefits. Nothing herein shall limit the ability of CZFS to amend or terminate any of the HVBC Benefit Plans or CZFS Benefit Plans in accordance with their terms at any time; provided, however, that CZFS shall continue to maintain the HVBC Benefit Plans (other than stock based or incentive plans) for which there is a comparable CZFS Benefit Plan until the HVBC Employees are permitted to participate in the CZFS Benefit Plans, unless such CZFS Benefit Plan has been frozen or terminated with respect to similarly situated employees of CZFS or any Subsidiary of CZFS. Following the Closing Date, CZFS shall honor, in accordance with HVBC’s policies and procedures in effect as of the date hereof, any employee expense reimbursement obligations of HVBC for out-of-pocket expenses incurred during the calendar year in which the Closing occurs by any Continuing Employee.