EXHIBIT 10.3
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TIDEWATER
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EMPLOYEES’ SUPPLEMENTAL SAVINGS PLAN
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Amended and Restated January 1, 2008
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TIDEWATER
EMPLOYEES’ SUPPLEMENTAL
SAVINGS PLAN
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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PREAMBLE
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ARTICLE 1: PURPOSE
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ARTICLE
2: DEFINITIONS
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ARTICLE
3: ELIGIBILITY
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ARTICLE 4: DEFERRED
COMPENSATION AMOUNTS
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ARTICLE
5: ACCOUNTING
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ARTICLE 6: PLAN
ADMINISTRATION
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ARTICLE
7: DISTRIBUTIONS
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ARTICLE 8: VESTING
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ARTICLE 9: NATURE OF
AGREEMENT
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ARTICLE 10: AMENDMENT AND
TERMINATION
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ARTICLE 11: CHANGE OF CONTROL
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ARTICLE 12: RESTRICTIONS ON
ASSIGNMENT
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ARTICLE 13: MISCELLANEOUS
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TIDEWATER
EMPLOYEES’ SUPPLEMENTAL
SAVINGS PLAN
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS , Tidewater Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”) maintains the Tidewater Employees’
Supplemental Savings Plan (the “Plan”), the provisions
of which are at present expressed in a plan document effective
November 1, 1987, and amendments thereto effective
January 1, 1993, January 1,
1995, October 1, 1997, restated October 1, 1999 and
amended February 1, 2007;
WHEREAS, each Participant’s vested account balance
as of December 31, 2004, plus any earnings with respect to
those amounts, was “grandfathered” under Code
Section 409A until the Plan was materially modified on
February 1, 2007 to provide for a mandatory lump-sum payout of
Plan benefits upon a Change of Control of the Company, as defined
in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5);
WHEREAS , the Plan has been in reasonable, good faith
compliance with Code Section 409A since January 1, 2005
and this document is restated to comply with the final Treasury
Regulations under Code Section 409A and to make certain other
changes, effective January 1, 2008, unless an earlier
effective date is stated; and
NOW, THEREFORE
, the Plan is hereby restated to
read in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE
1: PURPOSE
Some Company employees participating
in the Savings Plan can make only a portion of the Salary Deferral
Contributions that the Savings Plan would allow because of the
limitations contained in Sections 401(a)(17), 401(k), 401(m) and
402(g) of the Code (the “Limitations”).
The purposes of this Plan are
(i) to provide a mechanism for certain employees of the
Company to defer the portion of their Compensation which cannot be
deferred because of the Limitations, (ii) to provide for an
employer contribution match for such supplemental salary deferrals,
(iii) to permit a defer of an amount equal to an amount that
will be returned or distributed from the Savings Plan due to
discrimination testing, (iv) to provide a mechanism to defer a
portion of such employees’ annual incentive bonus
(“Annual Bonus”) and (v) to establish a
non-qualified trust (the “Trust”) to provide a means
for funding the benefits of the Participants under the Plan, under
which Company and its creditors retain such rights as to defer the
taxation of all benefits until actually received by the
Participants and/or their Death Beneficiaries.
Since the Plan (other than the
Annual Bonus deferral) is intended to supplement the Savings Plan,
any ambiguities or gaps in this Plan shall be resolved by reference
to the Savings Plan document, as amended, but only if consistent
with the purposes set forth in this Article and only if consistent
with Code Section 409A, applicable Treasury Regulations and
related guidance
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by the Secretary of the Treasury. If any
provision of this Agreement is capable of being interpreted in more
than one manner, then to the extent feasible, the provision shall
be interpreted in a manner that does not result in an excise tax
under Code Section 409A.
The Plan shall cover employees of
the Company meeting the eligibility criteria set forth in Article
3.
ARTICLE
2: DEFINITIONS
2.1 All terms used in this Plan
shall have the meanings assigned to them under the provisions of
the Savings Plan, unless otherwise defined herein or qualified by
the context.
2.2 “Affiliated
Companies” means (i) the Company and (ii) all
entities with which the Company would be considered a single
employer under Code Sections 414(b) and 414(c), provided that in
applying Code Sections 1563(a)(1), (2) and (3) for
purposes of determining whether a controlled group of corporations
exists under Code Section 414(b), the language “at least
50 percent” shall be used instead of “at least 80
percent” each place it appears in Code Sections 1563(a)(1),
(2) and (3), and in applying Treasury Regulation
Section 1.414(c)-2 for purposes of determining whether trades
or businesses (whether or not incorporated) are under common
control for purposes of Code Section 414(c), the language
“at least 50 percent” shall be used instead of
“at least 80 percent” each place it appears in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.414(c)-2. The term “Affiliated
Companies” shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with
the definition of “service recipient” contained in Code
Section 409A.
2.3 “Code” shall mean
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended and as may be amended
from time to time.
2.4 “Compensation” shall
have the same meaning as it has in the Savings Plan except that the
limitations imposed by Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall
not be applicable.
2.5 “Death Beneficiary”
shall mean the recipient of any proceeds under the Plan in
conjunction with the death of a Participant and shall be
(i) the person or persons designated by the Participant on a
form provided by the Committee, or (ii) in the absence of a
designated Death Beneficiary, the Participant’s
estate.
2.6 “Employer
Contributions” refers to contributions under the Savings Plan
made by the Company to match employees’ Salary Deferral
Contributions.
2.7 “Plan Year” shall
mean each calendar year.
2.8 “Salary Deferral
Contributions” refers to contributions made pursuant to the
Savings Plan by reduction of employees’
compensation.
2.9 “Savings Plan”
refers to the Tidewater 401(k) Savings Plan.
2.10 “Selected Date”
shall mean the date selected in a Salary Deferral Agreement, or an
amendment thereto.
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2.11 “Termination Date”
shall mean a termination of employment with the Company and all
Affiliated Companies in such a manner as to constitute a
“separation from service” as defined under Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h), for any reason other than
death.
Whether a termination of employment
has occurred is determined based upon facts and circumstances that
indicate that the Company and Participant reasonably anticipated
that no further services would be performed after a certain date or
that the level of bona fide services the Participant would perform
after a certain date (whether as an employee or independent
contractor) would permanently decrease to no more than 20 percent
of the average level of bona fide services performed (whether as an
employee or independent contractor) over the immediately preceding
36-month period (or, if employed less than 36 months, such lesser
period).
An unpaid bona fide leave of absence
is disregarded in determining the average level of bona fide
services during the 36 month period (or, if employed less than 36
months, such lesser period) and a paid bona fide leave is
considered at a level equal to the level of services that the
employee would have been required to perform to receive the
compensation paid with respect to such leave.
Facts and circumstances to be
considered in making this determination include, but are not
limited to, whether the Participant continues to be treated as an
employee for other purposes (such as continuation of salary and
participation in employee benefit programs), whether similarly
situated employees have been treated consistently, and whether the
Participant is permitted and realistically available, to perform
services for other service recipients in the same line of
business.
A Participant is presumed to have
separated from service where the level of bona fide services
performed decreases to a level described above. A Participant will
be presumed to have not separated from service where the level of
bona fide services performed continues at a level that is 50
percent or more during the immediately preceding 36-month period
(or, if employed less than 36 months, such lesser period). No
presumption applies to a level of service that continues at more
than 20% and less than 50%. This presumption is rebuttable if a
Participant must return to employment due to business
circumstances, such as the termination of the employee’s
replacement.
A Termination Date will not occur
while the Participant is on military leave, sick leave, or other
bona fide leave of absence if the period does not exceed six
months, or if longer, so long as the Participant retains the right
to reemployment with the Company under an applicable statute or by
contract. A leave of absence constitutes a bona fide leave of
absence only if there is a reasonable expectation that the
Participant will return to perform services for the Company. If the
period of leave exceeds six months and the Participant does not
retain a right to reemployment under an applicable statute or by
contract, the employment relationship is deemed to terminate on the
first day immediately following such six-month period. A 29-month
period may be substituted for the six-month period for a medical
leave of absence described in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.409A-1(h)(i).
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2.12 “Valuation Date”
shall mean the close of each Business Day. For this purpose, the
term Business Day shall mean any day during which the New York
Stock Exchange is open to engage in stock transactions.
ARTICLE
3: ELIGIBILITY
Every Member in the Savings Plan who
is the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer,
a Vice President or the Corporate Controller of the Company or who
is otherwise designated as eligible to participate by the
Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company
shall be eligible to participate in this Plan (an “Eligible
Employee”). The “Deferral Percentage” is the
percentage of Compensation an Eligible Employee elects to defer in
his Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement.
ARTICLE 4: DEFERRED
COMPENSATION AMOUNTS
4.1 Supplemental
Deferrals . An Eligible Employee can enter into a
Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement prior to the commencement of
the calendar year in which it pertains. The Eligible Employee may
elect to defer between 2 percent and 50 percent of his Compensation
for each pay period in which the Eligible Employee’s Salary
Deferral Contributions under the Savings Plan has ceased due to IRS
limitations (“Supplemental Salary Deferral”). The
amounts deferred shall be retained by the Company in a
“Supplemental Salary Deferral Account” for the Eligible
Employee.
The Eligible Employee may also elect
to defer an amount equal to the amount returned or distributed from
the Savings Plan in the subsequent year due to
(i) discrimination testing under Section 401(k)(3) of the
Code or (ii) discrimination testing under
Section 401(m)(6) of the Code. The amount referred to in
(i) shall be credited to Participant’s Supplemental
Salary Deferral Account. The amount referred to in (ii) shall
be credited to Participant’s Matching Contribution
Account.
4.2 Matching
Contributions . For each dollar of Supplemental Salary
Deferral contributed under the Plan pursuant to the
Participant’s Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement, the
Company shall deem set aside an amount (“Matching
Contribution”) equal to the amount of Employer Contribution
that would have been made under the Savings Plan if the
Supplemental Salary Deferral had been a Salary Deferral
Contribution. The Matching Contribution when combined with the
matching contribution provided in Section 4.07 of the Savings
Plan shall not exceed three percent of Compensation. If an Employer
Contribution to the Savings Plan on behalf of a Participant is
forfeited pursuant to Section 401(k)(8) or
Section 401(m)(6) of the Code, such amount shall be
contributed as a Matching Contribution under the Plan to the extent
such Participant has so provided in his Supplemental Salary
Deferral Agreement. A Matching Contribution shall not be required
to the extent a returned or forfeited Employer Contribution is
otherwise deemed credited to a Participant.
4.3 Annual Bonus . The
Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement may also contain an election
to defer all or part of an Eligible Employee’s Annual Bonus
(“Bonus Deferral”) limited to amounts earned for
services provided during the fiscal year. The Bonus Deferral shall
be in whole percentages of either 25 percent, 50 percent, 75
percent or 100 percent. The portion
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of each Participant’s Annual Bonus
deferred pursuant to a Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement shall
be credited to such Participant’s Supplemental Salary
Deferral Account.
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4.4
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Execution of Supplemental
Salary Deferral Agreement .
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(a)
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A Supplemental Salary Deferral
Agreement shall be executed prior to the beginning of the calendar
year to which the agreement relates (except that with respect to
the first year an employee becomes an Eligible Employee he may
enter into a Supplemental Salary Deferral Agreement within 30 days
of becoming an Eligible Employee for Compensation for services
performed subsequent to execution of such Agreement) and shall be
effective only for the calendar year to which it
relates.
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(b)
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Bonus deferral elections must
be made before the commencement of the 12-month service period (or
if applicable, such longer period) over which the bonus is earned
(currently the service period for bonuses is the 12-month period
from April 1 st to March 31
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). Where deferral is
made in the first year of eligibility and after the beginning of
the specified performance period for an Annual Bonus, an election
will be deemed to apply to the Annual Bonus paid for services
performed after the election if the election applies to no more
than an amount equal to the total amount of the Annual Bonus for
the performance period multiplied by the ratio of the number of
days remaining in the performance period after the election over
the total number of days in the performance period.
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A Participant shall make such
elections with respect to a coming twelve (12) month Plan Year
or service period during such period established by the
Committee.
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Once a Plan Year or service
period has begun, Participant elections shall be irrevocable,
unless the Participant experiences an Unforeseeable Emergency, as
defined in Section 7.7, or as required by the Savings Plan to
enable the Participant to take a hardship withdrawal from the
Savings Plan in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.401(k)-1(d)(2). If a Participant discontinues a
deferral election, he will not be permitted to elect to make
deferrals again until open enrollment for the succeeding Plan Year
(for salary) or service period (for bonuses).
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No Supplemental Salary Deferrals
shall occur after a Participant is no longer an Eligible
Employee.
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ARTICLE
5: ACCOUNTING
5.1 Establishment of
Accounts . The Committee shall establish and maintain a
separate Supplemental Salary Deferral Account and Matching
Contribution Account for each Participant. A Participant’s
Supplemental Salary Deferral Account shall be credited with the
Participant’s Supplemental Salary Deferrals, Bonus Deferrals
and earnings thereon, and a Participant’s Matching
Contribution Account shall be credited with the Participant’s
Matching
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Contribution and the earnings thereon. The
accounts shall be bookkeeping entries only and the Participant
shall have no secured or vested interest in any specified assets. A
Participant’s interest in the two accounts shall be referred
to in the aggregate as his “Deferred Compensation
Account.”
5.2 Adjusting of
Accounts . The Committee shall provide to each Participant
a list of investments from which a Participant can choose as a
deemed investment for such Participant’s Deferred
Compensation Account. A Participant’s Deferred Compensation
Account shall be deemed invested in the investments selected by
such Participant (provided that if no investment is selected, the
Deferred Compensation Account shall be deemed invested in a
balanced fund selected by the Committee). Each Participant’s
Deferred Compensation Account shall be adjusted as of each
Valuation Date to reflect increases or decreases in the value of
such deemed investments. A Participant shall have the right to
change the deemed investment of his Deferred Compensation Account
and the allocation of future Supplemental Salary Deferrals,
Matching Contributions and Bonus Deferrals by notice to the
Committee in such form as required by the Committee. Such changes
in deemed investments shall be made on the Valuation Date next
following the date upon which said change was requested, or as soon
thereafter as may be administratively practicable. To the greatest
extent practicable, the same valuation and accounting methods shall
be used as are used to recalculate the Participant’s account
balances under the Savings Plan. A Participant shall have no right
to compel investment of any amounts credited to Participant’s
Deferred Compensation Account.
ARTICLE 6: PLAN
ADMINISTRATION
This Plan shall be administered by
the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of
Directors, the Employee Benefits Committee of the Company (the
“Committee”), and the Board of Directors of the
Company, and their respective powers and obligations