High Deductible Health Plan Coverage Option. For the term of this Agreement, eligible full- time bargaining unit employees who elect the HDHP coverage option will be charged the same premium (if any) that is charged to non-bargaining employees of Entergy Arkansas LLC., or a successor Entergy System Company employer. The Company will not provide cash back or benefit credits to active bargaining unit employees who waive coverage under the Medical Plan. For the term of this Agreement, all active bargaining unit employees will be grouped with all active employees employed by an Entergy System Company and all former employees of an Entergy System Company receiving long term disability benefits under the LTD Plan and separately from retirees (following their initial year of retirement) for purposes of determining their premium costs under the Medical Plan. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if the Company determines that the value of any Medical Plan coverage option, the Dental Plan, the Vision Plan, Retiree Health Plan coverage option, and/or bargaining unit employee contributions to an HSA or Health Care FSA under the Reimbursement Plan, whether singularly or in the aggregate, will cause Entergy Corporation, the Company, or the Plan Administrator to incur or to be assessed or otherwise be responsible for an excise tax, the Company may, at its discretion and without reopening or amending this Agreement and without negotiating with or requesting consent of the Union, amend or cease to offer such Medical Plan coverage option and/or Retiree Health Plan coverage option, amend the Medical Plan, Vision Plan Dental Plan, and/or Retiree Health Plan and/or limit the amount bargaining unit employees may contribute to an HSA or Health Care FSA, provided any such changes apply to bargaining unit employees on the same basis as they apply to non-bargaining employees of Entergy Arkansas, LLC., or a successor Entergy System Company employer. The Company agrees to consider the Union’s input with respect to the any such excise tax, with the Company retaining sole discretion and decision-making authority to make any of the changes described in the above paragraph. When any change in premiums of the above Medical Plan options is made, the Company shall notify the Union, and all employees by an announcement in a Company publication or by letter.
