Retiree Medical UTC shall, or shall cause a member of the UTC Group to, assume and retain, and no member of the Carrier Group or Otis Group shall assume or retain any Liabilities with respect to (i) the UTC subsidized retiree medical coverage with respect to each Employee and Former Employee who qualifies for coverage as of December 31, 2019, and (ii) access only retiree medical coverage with respect to Former Group Employees.
Retiree Medical Benefits If Executive is or would become fifty-five (55) or older and Executive's age and service equal sixty-five (65) and Executive has at least five (5) years of service with the Company within two (2) years of Change in Control, Executive is eligible for retiree medical benefits (as such are determined immediately prior to Change in Control). Executive is eligible to commence receiving such retiree medical benefits based on the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control.
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.
Retirement Plans 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 (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, JHSS shall provide the following administrative services:
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.
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.
Retirees The Company has no obligation or commitment to provide medical, dental or life insurance benefits to or on behalf of any of its employees who may retire or any of its former employees who have retired except as may be required pursuant to the continuation of coverage provisions of Section 4980B of the Code and the applicable provisions of ERISA.
Transferred Employees Harpoon’s employment of the Transferred Employees shall terminate at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the Series B Closing Date. Prior to or in conjunction with the Series B Closing, Maverick shall in good faith offer employment to the Transferred Employees, pursuant to terms of written offer letters, with such employment to commence on the first Business Day immediately following the Series B Closing Date. In the event that any such Transferred Employee accepts Maverick’s offer of employment either before or after the Series B Closing, Maverick shall be responsible for all Liabilities (including salaries and benefits, including the maintenance of appropriate levels of workers’ compensation insurance) arising out of any such employment from and after the initial date of the Transferred Employee’s employment with Maverick. Harpoon shall be responsible for providing notice and health continuation coverage under COBRA to any Transferred Employee (and his/her qualified beneficiaries) who experiences a qualifying event after the Series B Closing Date. With respect to all confidentiality and invention assignment provisions applicable to Transferred Employees contained in Contracts that Transferred Employees entered into with Harpoon prior to the Series B Closing, Harpoon shall enforce such provisions on behalf of Maverick, at Maverick’s request and expense, to the extent that Maverick cannot enforce such Contracts directly. Effective upon the Series B Closing, Harpoon hereby waives (x) any non-competition or similar provisions and (y) any confidentiality provisions, to the extent restricting disclosure or use of the Transferred Intellectual Property or use of the license set forth in Section 2.2(a), in each case ((x) and (y)) applicable to Transferred Employees contained in Contracts that Transferred Employees entered into with Harpoon prior to the Series B Closing.
Continuing Employees “Continuing Employees” is defined in Section 6.4 of the Agreement.
Welfare Plans (a) For all purposes (including purposes of vesting, eligibility to participate and level of benefits) under the employee welfare benefit plans of Buyer and its affiliates providing benefits to any Acquired Employees after the Closing (the “New Welfare Plans” ), each Acquired Employee shall subject to applicable Law and applicable tax qualification requirements be credited with his or her years of service with Knight Ridder or its affiliates, including the Acquired Companies and their Subsidiaries, before the Closing, to the same extent as such Acquired Employee was entitled, before the Closing, to credit for such service under any similar employee benefit plan in which such Acquired Employee participated or was eligible to participate immediately prior to the Closing, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to the extent that its application would result in a duplication of benefits. In addition, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (A) each Acquired Employee shall be immediately eligible to participate, without any waiting time, in any and all New Welfare Plans if such Acquired Employee participated immediately before the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in a comparable type of welfare benefit plan of a Seller Entity (such plans, collectively, the “Old Plans” ), and (B) for purposes of each New Welfare Plan providing medical, dental, pharmaceutical and/or vision benefits to any Acquired Employee, Buyer, or, as applicable, an Acquired Company, shall cause all pre-existing condition exclusions and actively-at-work requirements of such New Welfare Plan to be waived for such Acquired Employee and his or her covered dependents, unless such conditions would not have been waived under the comparable plans of Knight Ridder or its affiliates, including the Acquired Companies and their Subsidiaries, in which such Acquired Employee participated immediately prior to the Closing and Buyer shall cause any eligible expenses incurred by such employee and his or her covered dependents during the portion of the plan year of the Old Plan ending on the date such employee’s participation in the corresponding New Welfare Plan begins to be taken into account under such New Welfare Plan for purposes of satisfying all deductible, coinsurance and maximum out-of-pocket requirements applicable to such employee and his or her covered dependents for the applicable plan year as if such amounts had been paid in accordance with such New Welfare Plan.