AMENDMENT TO ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH EXECUTIVE OFFICER
EXHIBIT 10.6
AMENDMENT TO
ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH EXECUTIVE
OFFICER
This Amendment to the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (the “Restated Employment Agreement” ) entered into as of January 1, 2000 by and between Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, a savings association organized and operation under the federal laws of the United States(the “Association”) and Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx (the “Executive”) is entered into as of August 15, 2007.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Association and Executive have previously entered into the Restated Employment Agreement which remains in full force and effect; and
WHEREAS, the Association has realigned its executive management staff; and
WHEREAS, prior to such realignment the Executive served as Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel; and
WHEREAS, following such realignment Executive has agreed to continue to serve as Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Association has determined that it is in the best interests of the shareholders of the Association to rescind the Association’s mandatory retirement policy for executive officers;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Association and Executive hereby agree to amend the Restated Employment Agreement as follows from and after the date hereof:
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Section 3. Duties. of the Restated Employment Agreement is amended to replace the title Executive Vice President and General Counsel with the title Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel where it appears in such Section. |
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Section 4. Cash Compensation. of the Restated Employment Agreement is amended |
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to replace the salary set forth in such Section from an initial annual rate of Two Hundred Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($275,000) to an initial annual rate of Four Hundred Forty Five Thousand Dollars ($445,000) which the Association and Executive acknowledge is Executive’s current rate of annual salary. |
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Section 9. Termination of Employment with Severance Benefits. of the Restated Employment Agreement is amended by amending Section 9(a)(i)(A) by replacing the title Executive Vice President and General Counsel with the title Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel where it appears in Section 9(a)(i)(A). |
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Section 9. Termination of Employment with Severance Benefits. and Section 17. Notices. of the Restated Employment Agreement are amended by amending Section 9(b) and Section 17 to provide that the address of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxx is Two World Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000. |
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Section 10. Termination without Additional Association Liability. of the Restated Employment Agreement is amended by deleting Section 10(a)(v). |
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Section 30. Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. is added to the Restated Employment Agreement to state as follows: |
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| Section 30. Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. | ||
| In the event that this Agreement is construed to be a non-qualified deferred compensation plan described in section | ||
| 409A of the Code, the Agreement shall be operated, administered and construed so as to conform to the requirements of section 409A. | ||
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The Restated Employment Agreement is in all other respects confirmed and ratified and the Restated Employment Agreement, as amended by this amendment remains in full force and effect. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Association has caused this Amendment to be executed and Executive has hereunto set his hand, all as the 15th day of August 2007.
| Attest: | ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION |
| /S/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx | By: | /S/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx. | |
| Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx | Name: | Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx. | |
| Title: | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||
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| /S/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx | |||
| Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx | |||
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| STATE OF NEW YORK | ) |
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| COUNTY OF NASSAU | ) |
On this 15th day of August 2007, before me, the undersigned, personally appeared Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx., personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument, the individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument.
| /S/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Notary
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| Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
| Notary Public, State of New York | ||
| No. 4998931 | ||
| Qualified in Suffolk County | ||
| Commission Expires 7/13/2010 |
| STATE OF NEW YORK | ) |
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| COUNTY OF NASSAU | ) |
On this 15th day of August 2007, before me, the undersigned, personally appeared Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is (are) subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument, the individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which the individual(s) acted, executed the instrument.
| /S/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Notary
Public |
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| Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
| Notary Public, State of New York | ||
| No. 4998931 | ||
| Qualified in Suffolk County | ||
| Commission Expires 7/13/2010 |
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