Savings and Retirement Plans During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all other savings and retirement plans, practices, policies and programs, in each case on terms and conditions no less favorable than the terms and conditions generally applicable to the Company’s other executive employees.
Employee Benefit Plans; Employment Agreements (a) Section 2.11(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule lists all employee pension plans (as defined in Section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")), all employee welfare plans (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), and all other bonus, stock option, stock purchase, incentive, deferred compensation, supplemental retirement, severance and other similar fringe or employee benefit plans, programs or arrangements, written or otherwise, as amended, modified or supplemented, for the benefit of, or relating to, any current employee, officer or consultant (or any of their beneficiaries) of Parent or any other entity (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a controlled group including Parent or which is under common control with Parent (an "ERISA Affiliate") within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA, or any subsidiary of Parent, as well as each plan with respect to which Parent or an ERISA Affiliate could incur liability under Section 4069 (if such plan has been or were terminated) or Section 4212(c) of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code (together, the "Employee Plans"). There have been made available or will be made available as promptly as practicable, but in any event no later than 20 business days after the date hereof to the Company copies of (i) each such written Employee Plan and all related trust agreements, insurance and other contracts (including policies), the most recent summary plan descriptions, summaries of material modifications and communications distributed to plan participants since the date of the most recent summary plan descriptions, (ii) the three most recent annual reports on Form 5500 series, with accompanying schedules and attachments, filed with respect to each Employee Plan required to make such a filing, (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation for each Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (iv) the latest reports which have been filed with the Department of Labor with respect to each Employee Plan required to make such filing and (v) favorable determination letters issued for each Employee Plan and related trust that are intended to satisfy the qualification requirements of Section 401(a) and Section 501(a) of the Code (or, if pending, a copy of the application for such determination). For purposes of this Section 2.11, the term "material," when used with respect to (i) any Employee Plan, shall mean that Parent or an ERISA Affiliate has incurred or may incur obligations in an amount exceeding $5,000,000 with respect to such Employee Plan, and (ii) any liability, obligation, breach or non-compliance, shall mean that the Parent or an ERISA Affiliate has incurred or may incur obligations in an amount exceeding $1,000,000, with respect to any one such or series of related liabilities, obligations, breaches, defaults, violations or instances of non-compliance.
(b) Except as set forth in Section 2.11(b) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, (i) none of the Employee Plans promises or provides retiree medical or other retiree welfare benefits to any person, and none of the Employee Plans is a "multiemployer plan" as such term is defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA; (ii) no party in interest or disqualified person (as defined in Section 3(14) of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code) has at any time engaged in a transaction with respect to any Employee Plan which could subject Parent or any ERISA Affiliate, directly or indirectly, to a tax, penalty or other material liability for prohibited transactions under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code; (iii) no fiduciary of any Employee Plan has breached any of the responsibilities or obligations imposed upon fiduciaries under Title I of ERISA, which breach could result in any material liability to Parent or any ERISA Affiliate; (iv) all Employee Plans have been established and maintained substantially in accordance with their terms and have operated in compliance in all material respects with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutes (including ERISA and the Code), orders, or governmental rules and regulations currently in effect with respect thereto (including all applicable requirements for notification to participants or the Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") or Secretary of the Treasury), and may by their terms be amended and/or terminated at any time subject to applicable law, and Parent and each of its subsidiaries have performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under, are not in any material respect in default under or violation of, and have no knowledge of any default or violation by any other party to, any of the Employee Plans; (v) each Employee Plan intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is the subject of a favorable determination letter from the IRS, and nothing has occurred which may reasonably be expected to impair such determination; (vi) all contributions required to be made with respect to any Employee Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code, or the terms of the Employee Plan or any collective bargaining agreement, have been made on or before their due dates; (vii) with respect to each Employee Plan, no "reportable event" within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA (excluding any such event for which the 30 day notice requirement has been waived under the regulations to Section 4043 of ERISA) has occurred for which there is any material outstanding liability to the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate; and (viii) neither Parent nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than liability for premium payments to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the PBGC") arising in the ordinary course).
(c) Section 2.11(c) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of options or other rights, direct or indirect to purchase Parent Common Stock held by any current or former employee, officer or director of Parent or any of its subsidiaries as of the date hereof, together with the number of shares of Parent Common Stock subject to such options, and the exercise price of such options or rights (to the extent determined as of the date hereof), and no such option is intended to qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422(b) of the Code (an "ISO"), provided that no later than 20 business days after the date hereof, Parent will provide the Company with a list of current or former employees, officers and directors of Parent or any of its subsidiaries who hold any options or rights listed on Section 2.11(c) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule and the expiration dates of such options.
(d) Section 2.11(d) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of (i) all employment agreements with executive officers of Parent or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) all agreements with consultants who are individuals obligating Parent or any of its subsidiaries to make annual cash payments in an amount exceeding $500,000; (iii) all current executive officers of Parent or any of its subsidiaries who have executed a non-competition agreement with Parent or any of its subsidiaries; (iv) all severance agreements, programs and policies of Parent or any of its subsidiaries with or relating to its employees, in each case with outstanding commitments with respect to any one individual exceeding $250,000 per year or providing for payments over a period in excess of two years, excluding programs and policies required to be maintained by law; and (v) all Employee Plans which contain change in control provisions. Other than as disclosed in Parent's Statement on Schedule 14D-9 filed prior to the date hereof with the SEC in respect of an exchange offer of Western Resources, Inc. (the "Schedule 14D-9"), there have been no material changes to the compensation of Parent's executive officers since September 30, 1996. All related payroll expenses and any accelerated pension benefits of Parent and any of its subsidiaries under severance agreements with former employees, directors and officers of Parent or any of its subsidiaries have been fully accrued in the 1996 Financial Statements.
(e) Except as set forth in Section 2.11(e) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, no employee of Parent or any of its subsidiaries has participated in any employee pension benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) maintained by or on behalf of Parent. The PBGC has not instituted proceedings to terminate any defined benefit plan listed in Section 2.11(e) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule (each, a "Defined Benefit Plan"). The Defined Benefit Plans have no accumulated or waived funding deficiencies within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code nor have any extensions of any amortization period within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or 302 of ERISA been applied for with respect thereto. The present value of the benefit liabilities (within the meaning of Section 4041 of ERISA) of the Defined Benefit Plans, determined on a termination basis using actuarial assumptions that would be used by the PBGC does not exceed by more than $1,000,000 the value of the Plans' assets. No facts exist with respect to the Defined Benefit Plans which would give rise to a lien on the assets of Parent under Section 4068 of ERISA. All the assets of the Defined Benefit Plans are cash, readily marketable securities or insurance contracts.
(f) Parent has fiduciary liability insurance in effect covering the fiduciaries of the Employee Plans (including Parent) with respect to whom Parent may have liability, and within 20 business days of the date hereof, Parent will provide the Company with a statement of the amount of such insurance.
Retirement Plans (a) In connection with the individual retirement accounts, simplified employee pension plans, rollover individual retirement plans, educational IRAs and XXXX individual retirement accounts (“XXX Plans”), 403(b) Plans and money purchase and profit sharing plans (“Qualified Plans”) (collectively, the “Retirement Plans”) within the meaning of Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) sponsored by a Fund for which contributions of the Fund’s shareholders (the “Participants”) are invested solely in Shares of the Fund, Transfer Agent shall provide the following administrative services:
(i) Establish a record of types and reasons for distributions (i.e., attainment of eligible withdrawal age, disability, death, return of excess contributions, etc.);
(ii) Record method of distribution requested and/or made;
(iii) Receive and process designation of beneficiary forms requests;
(iv) Examine and process requests for direct transfers between custodians/trustees, transfer and pay over to the successor assets in the account and records pertaining thereto as requested;
(v) Prepare any annual reports or returns required to be prepared and/or filed by a custodian of a Retirement Plan, including, but not limited to, an annual fair market value report, Forms 1099R and 5498; and file same with the IRS and provide same to Participant/Beneficiary, as applicable; and
(vi) Perform applicable federal withholding and send Participants/Beneficiaries an annual TEFRA notice regarding required federal tax withholding.
(b) Transfer Agent shall arrange for PFPC Trust Company to serve as custodian for the Retirement Plans sponsored by a Fund.
(c) With respect to the Retirement Plans, Transfer Agent shall provide each Fund with the associated Retirement Plan documents for use by the Fund and Transfer Agent shall be responsible for the maintenance of such documents in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Plans and Benefit Arrangements Each of the Loan Parties shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to:
(i) fail to satisfy the minimum funding requirements of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any Plan;
(ii) request a minimum funding waiver from the Internal Revenue Service with respect to any Plan;
(iii) engage in a Prohibited Transaction with any Plan, Benefit Arrangement or Multiemployer Plan which, alone or in conjunction with any other circumstances or set of circumstances resulting in liability under ERISA, would constitute a Material Adverse Change;
(iv) permit the aggregate actuarial present value of all benefit liabilities (whether or not vested) under each Plan, determined on a plan termination basis, as disclosed in the most recent actuarial report completed with respect to such Plan, to exceed, as of any actuarial valuation date, the fair market value of the assets of such Plan;
(v) fail to make when due any contribution to any Multiemployer Plan that the Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group may be required to make under any agreement relating to such Multiemployer Plan, or any Law pertaining thereto;
(vi) withdraw (completely or partially) from any Multiemployer Plan or withdraw (or be deemed under Section 4062(e) of ERISA to withdraw) from any Multiple Employer Plan, where any such withdrawal is likely to result in a material liability of the Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group;
(vii) terminate, or institute proceedings to terminate, any Plan, where such termination is likely to result in a material liability to the Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group;
(viii) make any amendment to any Plan with respect to which security is required under Section 307 of ERISA; or
(ix) fail to give any and all notices and make all disclosures and governmental filings required under ERISA or the Internal Revenue Code, where such failure is likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.
Benefits Plans During the Employment Period, You will be eligible to participate in all benefit plans in effect for executives and employees of the Company, subject to the terms and conditions of such plans.
Incentive, Savings and Retirement Plans During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all incentive, savings and retirement plans, practices, policies and programs applicable generally to other peer executives of the Company and its affiliated companies, but in no event shall such plans, practices, policies and programs provide the Executive with incentive opportunities (measured with respect to both regular and special incentive opportunities, to the extent, if any, that such distinction is applicable), savings opportunities and retirement benefit opportunities, in each case, less favorable, in the aggregate, than the most favorable of those provided by the Company and its affiliated companies for the Executive under such plans, practices, policies and programs as in effect at any time during the 120-day period immediately preceding the Effective Date or if more favorable to the Executive, those provided generally at any time after the Effective Date to other peer executives of the Company and its affiliated companies.
Employee Benefit Plans and Related Matters; ERISA (a) Section 2.16(a) of the GFI Disclosure Letter contains a true and complete list of each material employment, bonus, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock purchase, stock option, retention, change of control, severance or termination pay, hospitalization or other medical, life or other insurance, supplemental unemployment benefits, profit-sharing, pension or retirement plan, program, trust, agreement or arrangement, and each other material employee benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement (collectively, the “GFI Benefit Plans”) currently maintained or contributed to or required to be contributed to by (i) GFI, (ii) any GFI Subsidiary or (iii) any ERISA Affiliate, in any case for the benefit of any current or former employee, worker, consultant, director or member of GFI or any GFI Subsidiary.
(b) With respect to each of the GFI Benefit Plans, GFI has delivered or made available to Parent complete copies of each of the following documents: (i) the GFI Benefit Plan governing documentation (including all amendments thereto); (ii) the annual report and actuarial report, if required under ERISA or the Code or any Law, for the most recent plan year; (iii) the most recent Summary Plan Description, together with each Summary of Material Modifications, if required under ERISA, and other booklets or information issued to participants and beneficiaries; (iv) if the GFI Benefit Plan is funded through a trust or any third party funding vehicle, the trust or other funding agreement (including all amendments thereto) and the most recent financial statements thereof; and (v) the most recent determination letter received from the IRS with respect to each GFI Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code.
(c) In the past six years, neither GFI nor any ERISA Affiliate has maintained or contributed to or was required to contribute to any plan or arrangement that is or was (i) subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of Title IV of ERISA, (ii) a multiple employer welfare arrangement within the meaning of Section 3(40) of ERISA or (iii) a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
(d) Each GFI Benefit Plan intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS as to its qualification and, to the Knowledge of GFI, no event has occurred that could reasonably be expected to result in disqualification of such GFI Benefit Plan.
(e) Each of the GFI Benefit Plans has been operated and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms and all applicable Laws, including ERISA and the Code.
(f) Neither GFI nor any GFI Subsidiary has made any loans to employees in violation of Section 402 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. Each transfer of funds by GFI or any GFI Subsidiary to any of their respective employees that was deemed a loan was when made (and at all times since has been) properly treated by GFI and the GFI Subsidiaries as such for federal income tax purposes.
(g) Neither the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Transactions will (either alone or together with any other event) (i) cause any payment (whether of severance pay or otherwise) to become due to any current or former employee or director of GFI or a GFI Subsidiary, (ii) cause an increase in the amount of compensation or benefits or the acceleration of the vesting or timing of payment of any compensation or benefits payable to or in respect of any current or former employee or director of GFI or a GFI Subsidiary, (iii) cause any individual to accrue or receive additional benefits, services or accelerated rights to payment of benefits under any GFI Benefit Plan, (iv) provide for payments that could subject any person to liability for tax under Section 4999 of the Code or (v) result in payments under any of the GFI Benefit Plans which would not be deductible under Section 280G of the Code.
(h) There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of GFI, threatened material claims in respect of or relating to any of the GFI Benefit Plans, by any employee or beneficiary covered under any GFI Benefit Plan or otherwise involving any GFI Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for benefits).
(i) Neither GFI, any GFI Subsidiary, any GFI Benefit Plan, any trust created thereunder, nor any trustee or administrator thereof has engaged in a transaction in connection that could reasonably be expected to give rise to a civil liability under either Section 409 of ERISA or Section 502(i) of ERISA or a tax imposed pursuant to Section 4975 or 4976 of the Code.
(j) No GFI Benefit Plan provides benefits, including death or medical benefits (whether or not insured), with respect to current or former employees or directors of GFI or any GFI Subsidiary beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) coverage mandated solely by applicable Law, (ii) death benefits or retirement benefits under any “employee pension plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), (iii) deferred compensation benefits accrued as liabilities on the books of GFI or a GFI Subsidiary or (iv) benefits the full costs of which are borne by the current or former employee or director or his or her beneficiary.
(k) Each stock option issued since January 1, 2005 with respect to GFI Common Stock was granted with a per-share exercise or base price, as the case may be, not less than the fair market value of a share of GFI Common Stock on the date of grant.
(l) With respect to each GFI Benefit Plan established or maintained outside of the U.S. primarily for the benefit of employees of GFI or any GFI Subsidiary residing outside of the U.S. (a “Foreign GFI Benefit Plan”): (i) all material employer and employee contributions to each Foreign GFI Benefit Plan required by Law or by the terms of such Foreign GFI Benefit Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued, in accordance with normal accounting practices; (ii) the fair market value of the assets of each funded Foreign GFI Benefit Plan and the liability of each insurer for any Foreign GFI Benefit Plan funded through insurance or the book reserve established for any Foreign GFI Benefit Plan, together with any accrued contributions, is not materially less than the accrued benefit obligations with respect to all current and former participants in such plan according to the actuarial assumptions and valuations most recently used to determine employer contributions to such Foreign GFI Benefit Plan and none of the Transactions shall cause such assets or insurance obligations to be materially less than such benefit obligations; and (iii) each Foreign GFI Benefit Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities (including tax authorities). Section 2.16(l) of the GFI Disclosure Letter separately identifies each Foreign GFI Benefit Plan that is a defined benefit pension plan.
Employee Benefit Plans and Compensation (a) For purposes of this Section 2.22, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
Benefit Arrangements Each Benefit Arrangement has been maintained in compliance, in all material respects, with its terms and with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations which are applicable to such Benefit Arrangement, including without limitation, the Code, and with all plan documents. Except as set forth in SCHEDULE 4.8 and except as provided by law, the employment of all persons presently employed or retained by the Company is terminable at will.
Compensation; Employment Agreements; Etc Enter into or amend or renew any employment, consulting, severance or similar agreements or arrangements with any director, officer or employee of Security or its subsidiaries, or grant any salary or wage increase or increase any employee benefit, (including incentive or bonus payments) except (i) for normal individual increases in compensation to employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (ii) for other changes that are required by applicable law, or (iii) to satisfy Previously Disclosed contractual obligations existing as of the date hereof.
