SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT
PLAN
(As amended and restated effective
January 1, 2009)
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT
PLAN
The Visteon
Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (the
“Plan”) has been adopted to promote the best interests
of Visteon Corporation (the “Company”) and the
stockholders of the Company by attracting and retaining key
management employees possessing a strong interest in the successful
operation of the Company and its subsidiaries or affiliates and
encouraging their continued loyalty, service and counsel to the
Company and its subsidiaries or affiliates. The Plan was originally
adopted effective July 1, 2000, and is amended and restated
effective January 1, 2009, as set forth herein.
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND
CONSTRUCTION
Section 1.01. Definitions . The following terms
have the meanings indicated below unless the context in which the
term is used clearly indicates otherwise.
(a) Affiliate:
A person or legal entity that directly or indirectly, through one
or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is under
common control, with the Company, within the meaning of Code
Sections 414(b) and (c); provided that Code Section 414(b) and
(c) shall be applied by substituting “at least fifty
percent (50%)” for “at least eighty percent (80%) each
place it appears therein.
(b) Balance
Plus Program: The Balance Plus component of the Visteon Pension
Plan.
(c) Beneficiary:
The person or entity designated by a Participant to be his or her
beneficiary for purposes of this Plan (subject to such limitations
as to the classes and number of beneficiaries and contingent
beneficiaries and such other limitations as the Committee may
prescribe). A Participant’s designation of beneficiary shall
be valid and in effect only if a properly executed designation, in
such form as the Committee shall prescribe, is filed and received
by the Committee or its delegate prior to the Participant’s
death. If a Participant designates his or her spouse as
beneficiary, such beneficiary designation automatically shall
become null and void on the date of the Participant’s divorce
or legal separation from such spouse. If a valid designation of
beneficiary is not in effect at the time of the Participant’s
death, the Participant’s surviving spouse, or if there is no
surviving spouse, the estate of the Participant, shall be deemed to
be the sole beneficiary. If multiple beneficiaries have been
designated and one or more of the beneficiaries predecease the
Participant, then upon the Participant’s death, payment shall
be made exclusively to the surviving beneficiary or beneficiaries
unless the Participant’s designation specifies an alternate
method of distribution. Further, in the event that the Committee is
uncertain as to the identity of the Participant’s
beneficiary, the Committee may deem the estate of the Participant
to be the sole beneficiary. Beneficiary designations shall be in
writing (or in such other form as authorized by the Committee for
this purpose, which may include on-line designations), shall be
filed with the Committee or its delegate, and shall be in such form
as the Committee may prescribe for this purpose.
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(d) Board:
The Board of Directors of the Company.
(e) Code: The
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as interpreted by regulations and
rulings issued pursuant thereto, all as amended and in effect from
time to time. Any reference to a specific provision of the Code
shall be deemed to include reference to any successor provision
thereto.
(f) Committee:
The Organization and Compensation Committee of the
Board.
(g) Company:
Visteon Corporation, or any successor thereto.
(h) Covered
Employment Classification: The employment positions classified by
the Company (or by a Participating Employer with the consent of the
Company) as Leadership Level One, Leadership Level Two, Leadership
Level Three, Leadership Level Four, Corporate Officer, Executive
Leader, Senior Director, Director or, prior to January 1,
2006, Senior Leader.
(i) Credited
Service: For purposes of determining supplemental benefits under
Article II, the years and any fractional year of credited
service attributable to employment through June 30, 2006,
without duplication and not exceeding one year for any calendar
year, of the Participant under all the Retirement Plans; provided,
that solely for purposes of this Plan as applied to a Participant
who is a Transferred Group I or II Employee as defined under the
Visteon Pension Plan, and subject to Section 2.03, the
Participant’s credited service under all of the Retirement
Plans shall be deemed to include, to the extent not otherwise
considered under the Retirement Plans, the Participant’s
credited service recognized under the General Retirement Plan of
Ford Motor Company for employment through June 30, 2000. For
purposes of determining the Pension Equity Benefit under
Section 3.03, the service that is or would be recognized for
the Participant under the pension equity component of the
BalancePlus Program, taking into account the modifications set
forth in Section 3.03 of this Plan.
(j) Eligibility
Service: Subject to Section 2.06, service with a Participating
Employer while employed in a Covered Employment Classification;
provided, that in the case of a Participant who was covered under
the Ford Motor Company Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan on
June 30, 2000, Eligibility Service recognized for such
Participant under the
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Ford Motor
Company Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan as of June 30,
2000 shall be recognized as Eligibility Service under this
Plan.
(k) Employee:
A person who is (i) classified by a Participating Employer as
a common law employee enrolled on the active employment rolls of
the Participating Employer, and (ii) regularly employed by a
Participating Employer on a salaried basis (as distinguished from a
pension, retirement allowance, severance pay, retainer, commission,
fee under a contract or other arrangement, or hourly, piecework or
other wage).
(l) ERISA:
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as interpreted
by regulations and rulings issued pursuant thereto, all as amended
and in effect from time to time. Any reference to a specific
provision of ERISA shall be deemed to include reference to any
successor provision thereto.
(m) Participant:
Subject to Section 2.06, an Employee who is employed in a
Covered Employment Classification, and where the context so
requires, a former Employee entitled to receive a benefit
hereunder.
(n) Participating
Employer: The Company, Visteon Systems, LLC, Visteon Global
Technologies, Inc., and each other subsidiary a majority of the
voting stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by the
Company or a limited liability company a majority of the membership
interest of which is owned directly or indirectly by the Company,
that with the consent of the Committee, participates in the Plan
for the benefit of one or more Participants in its
employ.
(o) Pension
Equity Benefit: The amount calculated under
Section 3.03(a)(i)(B) and Section 3.03(c). This amount is
determined (with certain modifications) by reference to the pension
equity formula of the BalancePlus Program. A pension equity benefit
under Section 3.03 will be calculated for each Participant,
whether or not the Participant is actually covered under the
BalancePlus Program and/or the pension equity component of the
BalancePlus Program.
(p) Plan: The
Visteon Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as
amended and in effect from time to time.
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(q) Retirement
Plans: The Visteon Pension Plan (other than the Balance Plus
Program) and the Salaried Retirement Plan of Visteon Systems, LLC
(as in effect prior to its merger into the Visteon Pension Plan),
all as amended and in effect from time to time. The Retirement Plan
includes the following components:
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(i)
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Contributory/Noncontributory Service
Program: The portion of the Retirement Plan, excluding the Cash
Balance Program.
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(ii)
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Cash Balance Program: The portion of
the Retirement Plan that calculates benefit accruals using a cash
balance and/or pension equity formula, including, without
limitation, the BalancePlus Component.
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(r) Separation
from Service: The date on which a Participant terminates employment
from the Company and all Affiliates, provided that (1) such
termination constitutes a separation from service for purposes of
Code Section 409A, and (2) the facts and circumstances
indicate that the Company (or the Affiliate) and the Participant
reasonably believed that the Participant would perform no further
services (either as an employee or as an independent contractor)
for the Company (or the Affiliate) after the Participant’s
termination date, or believed that the level of services the
Participant would perform for the Company (or the Affiliate) after
such date (either as an employee or as an independent contractor)
would permanently decrease such that the Participant would be
providing insignificant services to the Company or an Affiliate.
For this purpose, a Participant is deemed to provide insignificant
services to the Company or an Affiliate, and thus to have incurred
a bona fide Separation from Service, if the Participant provides
services at an annual rate that is less than twenty percent (20%)
of the services rendered by such Participant, on average, during
the immediately preceding thirty-six (36) months of employment
(or his or her actual period of employment if less).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Participant takes a leave of
absence from the Company or an Affiliate for the purpose of
military leave, sick leave or other bona fide leave of absence, the
Participant’s employment will be deemed to continue for the
first six (6) months of the leave of absence, or if longer,
for so long as the Participant’s right to reemployment is
provided either by statute or by contract; provided that if the
leave of absence is due to a medically determinable physical or
mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or last
for a continuous period of not less than six
(6) months,
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where such
impairment causes the Participant to be unable to perform the
duties of his or her position of employment or any substantially
similar position of employment, the leave may be extended for up to
twenty-nine (29) months without causing a Separation from
Service.
(s) SERP
Eligibility Date: The date on which the Participant has, for each
of at least five years of Eligibility Service immediately preceding
the Participant’s termination of the employment with a
Participating Employer, been selected to participate in the
Company’s Annual Incentive program and has been granted a
target bonus under such program of at least 30% (for Participants
terminating prior to July 1, 2006, 40%) of the
Participant’s annual base salary rate in effect on the date
the target bonus amount is established.
Section 1.02. Construction and Applicable Law
.
(a) Wherever
any words are used in the masculine, they shall be construed as
though they were used in the feminine in all cases where they would
so apply; and wherever any words are use in the singular or the
plural, they shall be construed as though they were used in the
plural or the singular, as the case may be, in all cases where they
would so apply. Titles of articles and sections are for general
information only, and the Plan is not to be construed by reference
to such items.
(b) This Plan
is intended to be a plan of deferred compensation maintained for a
select group of management or highly compensated employees as that
term is used in ERISA, and shall be interpreted so as to comply
with the applicable requirements thereof. In all other respects,
the Plan is to be construed and its validity determined according
to the laws of the State of Michigan to the extent such laws are
not preempted by federal law. In case any provision of the Plan is
held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or
invalidity will not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, but the
Plan shall, to the extent possible, be construed and enforced as if
the illegal or invalid provision had never been
inserted.
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ARTICLE II. SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFITS
FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH
RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICE (OTHER THAN SERVICE RECOGNIZED UNDER
THE CASH BALANCE PROGRAMS)
Section 2.01. Eligibility .
(a) Prior
to July 1, 2006 . Subject to Section 2.06, a
Participant whose termination of employment (other than termination
of employment on account of death) occurs prior to July 1,
2006 shall be eligible to receive a supplemental benefit as
provided in this Article II if the Participant:
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(i)
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is
employed in a Covered Employment Classification at termination of
employment and either (A) retires directly from employment
with a Participating Employer on normal or disability retirement
under the Retirement Plan, or (B) terminates employment with
the approval of the Participating Employer at or after age
55;
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(ii)
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is
eligible to receive a monthly normal, disability or early
retirement benefit under one or more Retirement Plans (other than
the Balance Plus Program);
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(iii)
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has
at least ten (10) years of Credited Service, without
duplication, under all Retirement Plans;
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(iv)
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has
at least five continuous years of Eligibility Service immediately
preceding termination of employment, unless the eligibility
condition set forth in this subsection (d) is waived by the
Chairman of the Board or the President of the Company;
and
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(v)
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is
not covered by the Balance Plus Program.
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(b) After
June 30, 2006. A Participant who is covered under the
Contributory/Noncontributory Service Program or under the Salaried
Retirement Plan of Visteon Systems, LLC (as in effect prior to its
merger into the Visteon Pension Plan) and whose
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termination of
employment (other than termination of employment on account of
death) occurs after June 30, 2006 shall be eligible to receive
a supplemental benefit as provided in this Article II if the
Participant:
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(i)
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employed in a Covered Employment Classification at termination of
employment; and
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(ii)
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terminates employment after his or
her SERP Eligibility Date with the approval of the Participating
Employer.
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Section 2.02. Additional Definitions . For
purposes of this Article II, the following terms have the
meanings indicated below:
(a) Final
Five Year Average Base Salary: The average of the
Participant’s Monthly Base Salary for the five
December 31 measurement dates coincident with or immediately
preceding the first date on which the Participant retires from or
otherwise ceases to be employed in a Covered Employment
Classification with the Company and its Affiliates.
(b) Monthly
Base Salary: Subject to Section 2.06, the monthly base salary
paid to a Participant while employed in a Covered Employment
Classification on a December 31 measurement date coincident
with or immediately preceding the first date on which the
Participant retires from or otherwise ceases to be employed in a
Covered Employment Classification with the Company and its
Affiliates. The Participant’s monthly base salary shall be
determined prior to giving effect to any salary reduction agreement
to which Section 125 or Section 402(a)(8) of the Code
applies, and shall not include any other kind of extra or
additional compensation. For purposes of this subsection, base
salary paid by Ford Motor Company prior to July 1, 2000 shall
be treated as if paid by the Company.
Section 2.03. Amount of Supplemental Benefit
.
(a) Subject
to Section 2.06, any reductions pursuant to subsections
(b) and (c) below and to any limitations and reductions
pursuant to other provisions of the Plan, the supplemental benefit,
when expressed in the form of a monthly life annuity with no
survivor benefits commencing on the first day of the month next
following the Participant’s termination of
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employment,
shall be an amount equal to the Participant’s Final Five Year
Average Base Salary multiplied by the Participant’s years of
Credited Service,, and further multiplied by the Applicable
Percentage based on the Covered Employment Classification in which
the Participant served immediately prior to his or her retirement,
as follows:
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Covered Employment
Classification
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Immediately Prior to
Retirement
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Applicable Percentage
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0.90
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0.80
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%
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0.80
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0.75
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0.70
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%
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Executive Leader (other than a Participant who
was a Senior Leader on January 1, 2006 and who became an
Executive Leader on such date coincident with the elimination of
the Senior Leader classification) or Leadership Level
Two
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0.40
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Director, Senior Director or Senior Leader
(including Participants who were classified as Senior Leaders on
January 1, 2006 and who became either Executive Leaders or Senior
Directors coincident with the elimination of the Senior Leader
classification), Leadership Level Three, or Leadership Level
Four
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(b) For a
Participant who is a Transferred Group I or II Employee as defined
under the Visteon Pension Plan and who is entitled to a benefit
under the Ford Motor Company Supplemental Executive Retirement
Plan, the monthly supplement benefit payable hereunder shall be
reduced by the amount of the supplemental benefit to which the
Participant is entitled under the Ford Motor Company Supplemental
Executive Retirement Plan (or to which the Participant would have
been entitled under such plan except for any forfeiture of benefits
attributable to the Participant’s conduct), assuming
commencement on the first day of the month
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next following
the Participant’s termination of employment. In addition, the
Committee may further adjust the monthly supplemental benefit
payable to a Participant who is a Transferred Group I or II
Employee if such action is necessary or desirable as a result of
changes in the Ford Motor Company Supplemental Executive Retirement
Plan or if such action is otherwise necessary or desirable in order
to avoid duplicative benefits or to ensure that the
Participant’s aggregate benefit from this Plan and from the
Ford Motor Company Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, and the
allocation of benefits between such plans, is consistent with the
Employee Transition Agreement dated April 1, 2000 by and
between the Company and Ford Motor Company, and any amendments
thereto.
(c) For a
Participant who shall retire before age 62, the monthly
supplemental benefit payable hereunder shall equal the amount
calculated in accordance with subsections (a) and
(b) immediately above, reduced by 5/18 of 1% multiplied by the
number of months from the later of the date the supplemental
benefit commences, or age 55 in the case of earlier receipt by
reason of disability retirement, to the first day of the month
after the Participant would attain age 62.
(a)
Payments Commencing Prior to January 1, 2007. Subject
to the earning-out conditions set forth in Article VI,
supplemental benefits for a Participant who satisfies the
eligibility requirements set forth in Section 2.01, in the
amount determined under Section 2.03, shall be payable out of
the Company’s general funds monthly, commencing either
(1) in the case of a Participant whose payments commenced
prior to January 1, 2005, on the first day of the month
following the Participant’s termination of employment, or
(2) in the case of a Participant whose payments commenced
after December 31, 2004 and prior to January 1, 2007, on
the first day of the seventh month following the
Participant’s Separation from Service. For a Participant
whose payments commenced on the first day of the seventh month
following the Participant’s Separation from Service, the
first payment shall equal seven months of supplemental benefit
payments and thereafter, beginning on the first day of the eighth
month following the Participant’s Separation from Service,
supplemental benefit payments shall be made monthly. Payments to a
Participant hereunder shall cease at the end of the month in which
the Participant
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dies. There is
no pre-retirement or post-retirement death benefit payable under
this Article II following the death of the Participant.
(b)
Payments Commencing on or After January 1, 2007 .
Supplemental benefit payments that commence on or after
January 1, 2007 shall be paid to the Participant in the form
of a single lump sum payment on the first day of the seventh month
following the Participant’s Separation from Service. The
amount of the lump sum payment will be equal to the present value
of the monthly amount calculated under Section 2.03 above,
with such present value determined by using (i) for
distributions prior to January 1, 2009, the discount rates and
mortality tables that were used to calculate the obligations for
the Plan as disclosed in the Company’s audited financial
statements for the year ended immediately prior to the year in
which occurs the Participant’s benefit payment date, and
(ii) for distributions after December 31, 2008, the
discount rates and mortality tables that are used to calculate the
obligations for the Plan as disclosed in the Company’s
audited financial statements for the year ended immediately prior
to the year in which occurs the Participant’s Separation from
Service (the “Financial Statement Factors”). The lump
sum present value is calculated in three ways, and the Participant
is entitled to the greatest of the three. Under the first
calculation, the lump sum is equal to the sum of (i) the lump
sum value determined when the monthly amount calculated under
Section 2.03 is multiplied by an immediate annuity factor that
is determined by reference to the Financial Statement Factors and
the Participant’s age at Separation from Service, and
(ii) six months of interest, at the rate determined by
reference to the Financial Statement Factors, on the amount
determined under clause (i). Under the second calculation, the lump
sum is the amount determined when the monthly amount calculated
under Section 2.03 is multiplied by an immediate annuity factor
that is determined by reference to the Financial Statement Factors
and the Participant’s age at Separation from Service plus six
months. Under the third calculation, which is applicable only if
the Participant will be under age 55 at the benefit payment date,
the lump sum is the amount determined when the monthly amount
calculated under Section 2.03 is multiplied by a deferred to
age 55 annuity factor that is determined by reference to the
Financial Statement Factors and the Participant’s age at
Separation from Service.
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Section 2.05. Death Benefits .
(a) Prior
to January 1, 2007. There is no pre-retirement death
benefit (with respect to a Participant who dies during employment)
or post-retirement death benefit (with respect to a Participant who
dies after termination of employment).
(b) On or
After January 1, 2007.
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(i)
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Death During Employment
. If the Participant
dies during employment, no benefit is payable under the
Plan.
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(ii)
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Death After Termination But Prior to
Benefit Payment . In the event a Participant who
terminates from employment with an entitlement to a benefit dies
prior to payment of such benefit, the benefit will be paid to the
Participant’s Beneficiary in the form of a single lump sum
payment (calculated in accordance with Section 2.04) on the
first day of the seventh month following the Participant’s
Separation from Service.
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(iii)
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Death After Benefit
Payment . If
a Participant dies on or after the date on which a lump sum payment
of the Participant’s supplement benefit has been made, no
further benefits are payable following the Participant’s
death.
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Section 2.06. Special Rules for Certain Employees
Affected by 2001 Work Force Restructuring Program . The
following rules shall apply to an Employee who (i) was
employed in a Covered Employment Classification immediately prior
to the Company’s 2001 Work Force Restructuring (the
“Restructuring”), and (ii) continued to be
employed by a Participating Employer following the Restructuring
but, as a result of the Restructuring, ceased to be employed in a
Covered Employment Classification:
(a) The
Employee will continue as a Participant in the Plan notwithstanding
the Employee’s transfer to a non-Covered Employment
Classification.
(b) The
Employee will continue to accumulate Eligibility Service for
employment with a Participating Employer following the
Restructuring, and such employment shall be
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treated, for
purposes of Section 1.01(n), 2.01(a)(iii) and 2.02(b), as if
it were employment in an Eligible Employment
Classification.
(c) The
amount of the Employee’s supplemental benefit under
Section 2.03 shall be based on the Covered Employment
Classification in which the Employee was employed immediately prior
to the Restructuring.
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ARTICLE III. SUPPLEMENTAL
BENEFITS FOR SERVICE RECOGNIZED UNDER
THE CASH BALANCE PROGRAMS
Section 3.01. Eligibility . A Participant shall
be eligible to receive a supplemental benefit as provided in this
Article III if the Participant:
(a) is
covered under and will receive a monthly annuity benefit from the
Cash Balance Program;
(b) is
employed in a Covered Employment Classification at termination of
employment; and
(c) terminates
employment after his or her SERP Eligibility Date with the approval
of the Participating Employer.
Section 3.02. Additional Definitions . For
purposes of this Article III, the following terms have the
meanings indicated below:
(a) Annual
Incentive: The portion of the Visteon Incentive Plan, or any
successor plan, that provides for incentive compensation that is
awarded in the form of a cash bonus and that is based on a
performance period of 12 months or less.
(b) Compensation:
The Participant’s compensation as defined in the Cash Balance
Program that is applicable for purposes of determining the
Participant’s cash balance accruals, plus for any month after
the Participant’s SERP Eligibility Date, if not otherwise
recognized, any Annual Incentive amounts actually paid to the
Participant (or that would have been paid to the Participant except
for the Participant’s election to defer all or a portion of
such payment), all as determined without regard to the compensation
limitation of Code Section 401(a)(17).
(c) Final
Average Compensation: The final average compensation that would be
determined for the Participant under the BalancePlus Program (or
that would be determined for the Participant under the BalancePlus
Program assuming if the Participant is treated as being eligible
for the pension equity component of the BalancePlus Program) for
purposes of determining pension equity accruals, plus the average
of the three highest consecutive Annual Incentive amounts paid to
the Participant (or that would have been paid to the Participant
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for the
Participant’s election to defer all or a portion of such
payment) during the 120 month period immediately preceding the
Participant’s termination of employment, all as determined
without regard to the compensation limitation of Code
Section 401(a)(17).
Section 3.03. Amount of Supplemental Benefit
.
(a) Subject
to any limitations and reductions pursuant to other provisions of
the Plan, the supplemental benefit, when expressed in the form of a
life annuity without survivor benefits, shall be an amount equal
to:
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(i)
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The
greater of (A) the monthly annuity benefit that the
Participant would have received under the Cash Balance Program
(excluding any pension equity component) if the Participant’s
benefit under such program had been calculated in accordance with
the modifications described in subsection (b) below, or
(B) the monthly Pension Equity Benefit calculated in
accordance with subsection (c) below; minus
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(ii)
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The
monthly annuity benefit to which the Participant is actually
entitled under the Cash Balance Program (including any pension
equity component); minus
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(iii)
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The
monthly annuity benefit to which the Participant is actually
entitled under the Visteon Corporation Pension Parity Plan (prior
to conversion of the benefit to a single sum form of
payment).
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(b) The Cash
Balance Program monthly annuity benefit for purposes of subsection
(a)(i)(A) above is the monthly annuity benefit to which the
Participant would have been entitled under the Cash Balance Program
(disregarding any pension equity component) if the
Participant’s benefit under such program were calculated
consistent with the following modifications:
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(i)
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The
limitations of Code Section 415 are disregarded;
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(ii)
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For
purposes of calculating a Participant’s cash balance benefit,
the benefit is calculated by applying the definition of
Compensation set forth
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