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Exhibit
10(u)
ALCOA SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION
PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES
AS AMENDED AND RESTATED
EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31, 2007
Pursuant to due authorization
by the Board of Directors, Alcoa Inc. has adopted the following
Alcoa Supplemental Pension Plan for Senior Executives for the
exclusive benefit of select management and highly compensated
employees (1) whose Pension Service terminates on or after
January 1, 1999, (2) who are participants in the IC Rules
adopted under the Alcoa Retirement Plan I and/or in
Employees’ Excess Benefits Plan B of Alcoa Inc. due to their
previous participation in the IC Rules, (3) who meet the
requirements for participation hereunder, and (4) whose
monthly retirement benefits under other benefit plans are less than
the monthly retirement benefits calculated under this Plan.
Effective December 31, 2007, this Plan is frozen as to new
participants, and only Participants as of that date will be
eligible for a benefit accrual under this Plan.
ARTICLE I -
DEFINITIONS
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The following terms have the specified meanings. |
A. “Annual
Compensation” means the total payments which includes 100% of
Performance Pay and Incentive Compensation Awards, made by the
Company, and by any Subsidiaries or affiliates of Alcoa, for any
period of Pension Service, for services rendered as a salaried
employee, except as otherwise provided by contractual agreement.
Annual Compensation does not include living and similar allowances,
premium pay, and payments made for specific purposes as determined
under supplemental rules adopted by Alcoa. Annual Compensation
includes any amounts by which the Participant has elected to reduce
his or her salary under the Alcoa Savings Plan, and also includes
amounts deferred under any non-qualified deferred compensation
arrangement that would otherwise meet the definition of Annual
Compensation. “Special Payments” within the meaning of
the Alcoa Deferred Compensation Plan are not treated as Annual
Compensation.
B. “Average Final
Compensation” means the average Annual Compensation received
during the five highest paid calendar years out of the ten calendar
years (including the calendar year in which such compensation was
discontinued if this would increase Average Final Compensation),
immediately preceding the Participant’s termination of
Pension Service by virtue of employment termination, retirement or
death.
C. “Board of
Directors” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
D. “Company”
means Alcoa Inc.
E. “Compensation
Committee” means the Committee created by the Board of
Directors.
F. “Excess Plan
B” means the Employees’ Excess Benefits Plan B of Alcoa
Inc. as now in effect and as from time to time amended
hereafter.
G. “IC Rules”
means the IC Rules adopted under Alcoa Retirement Plan I as now in
effect and as from time to time amended hereafter.
H. “Other Plan or
Plans” means the IC Rules, any other defined benefit
retirement plan of the Company or any Subsidiary, Employees’
Excess Benefits Plan A of the Company, Excess Benefits Plan B, and
Employees’ Excess Benefits Plan C. Effective
December 31, 2007, Participants in this Plan are ineligible to
participate in Excess Benefits Plan C and have no accrual under
that plan.
I. “Participant”
means any employee (1) whose Pension Service terminates on or
after January 1, 1999, (2) who is a participant in the IC
Rules or Excess Plan B, and (3) who has a job grade of 27 or
higher, as determined by the Company. Effective December 31,
2007, no new Participants will participate in this Plan.
J. “Pension
Benefits” means any and all retirement benefits provided
under the Other Plan or Plans, excluding the Special Retirement
Pension or Supplemental Pension provided under the IC Rules or the
equivalent thereof provided under Excess Plan B.
K. “Pension
Service” means the service used to calculate the
Participant’s monthly retirement benefit under the Other Plan
or Plans.
L. “Plan” means
the Alcoa Supplemental Pension Plan for Senior Executives adopted
by the Company as described herein or from time to time amended
hereafter.
M. “Plan
Benefits” means the monthly benefits payable under this Plan
at such time as the Participant’s monthly Pension
Benefits
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