Exhibit 10-K
CHANGE OF CONTROL AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
DANA CORPORATION
AND
PAUL E. MILLER
DATED MAY 3, 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Recitals
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1. OPERATION OF
AGREEMENT; EMPLOYMENT AND TERM
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2. POSITION AND
DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE
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(A) Position
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(B) Duties
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(C) Location Of
Office
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3.
COMPENSATION
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(A) Salary
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(B) Additional
Compensation
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(C) Incentive,
Stock And Savings Plans
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(D) Retirement And
Welfare Benefit Plans
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(E) Expenses
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(F) Fringe
Benefits
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(G) Office And
Support Staff
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(H) Vacation And
Other Absences
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(I) Benefits Shall
Not Be Reduced Under Certain Circumstances
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(J) Certain
Retirement And Severance Definitions
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4. TERMINATION OF
EMPLOYMENT
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(A) Death Or
Disability
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(B) Cause
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(C) Good
Reason
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(D) Notice Of
Termination
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(E) Date Of
Termination
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5. OBLIGATIONS OF
THE CORPORATION UPON TERMINATION
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(A) Termination
Other Than For Cause
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(B) [intentionally
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(C) Cause; Other
Than For Good Reason
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(D) Death Or
Disability
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(E) Resolution Of
Disputes
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(1) Right Of
Election By Executive To Arbitrate Or Sue
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(2) Third-Party
Stakeholder
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6. NON-EXCLUSIVITY
OF RIGHTS
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7. FULL
SETTLEMENT
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8. CERTAIN
ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS BY THE CORPORATION
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9. CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION
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10.
COMPETITION
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11.
SUCCESSORS
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12. CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS
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(A)
Beneficiary
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(B) Change Of
Control
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(C) Change Of
Control Date
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13. AMENDMENT OR
MODIFICATION; WAIVER
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14.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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DEFINED TERMS
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DEFINED TERMS A |
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Accounting
Firm
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8(B) |
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Accrued
Obligations
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5(A)(1)(c) |
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ACP
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3(B) |
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Affiliate
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Affiliated
Companies
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3(A) |
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Agreement
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Introduction |
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Annual Base
Salary
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3(A) |
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Annual Bonus
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3(B) |
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Beneficial
Owner
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12(B) |
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Beneficiary
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12(A) |
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Board
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3(A) |
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Business
Combination
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12(B)(3) |
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Cause
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4(B) |
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Change of
Control
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12(B) |
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Change of Control
Date
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12(C) |
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COC Employment
Period
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Code
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8(B) |
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Competition
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Corporation
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14(E) |
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Date of
Termination
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Disability
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Disability
Effective Date
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Exchange Act
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Excise Tax
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Executive
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Introduction |
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Good Reason
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4(C) |
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Gross-Up
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8(A) |
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Incumbent
Board
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Notice of
Termination
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4(D) |
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Other
Benefits
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5(A)(5) |
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Parachute
Value
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Payment
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Person
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12(B) |
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Prior Voting
Securities
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Renewal Date
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1(D) |
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Safe Harbor
Amount
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Each listed term is intended to include both the singular and
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DEFINED TERMS |
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Service
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Severance
Compensation
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Short-Term
Award
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3(B) |
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Spinoff
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12(B) |
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Subsidiary
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Terminal
Date
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1(A) |
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Termination
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5(A) |
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Termination
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Underpayment
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8(B) |
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Value
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iii
THIS CHANGE OF CONTROL AGREEMENT (the
“Agreement”) made and entered into as of this 3rd day
of May, 2004, by and between DANA CORPORATION, a Virginia
corporation whose principal place of business is located at 4500
Dorr Street, Toledo, Ohio (the “Corporation”), and Paul
E. Miller (the “Executive”);
WHEREAS, the Executive is a principal
executive officer of the Corporation and an integral part of its
management; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation wishes to
assure both itself and the Executive of continuity of management in
the event of any actual or threatened Change of Control of the
Corporation; and
WHEREAS, this Agreement is not
intended to alter materially the compensation and benefits that the
Executive could reasonably expect in the absence of a Change of
Control of the Corporation, and, accordingly, this Agreement,
though taking effect upon execution thereof, will be operative only
upon a Change of Control of the Corporation, as that term is
hereafter defined;
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of
the mutual promises, covenants and agreements set forth below, it
is hereby agreed as follows:
1.
OPERATION OF AGREEMENT; EMPLOYMENT AND TERM.
(A) This Agreement shall be
effective immediately upon its execution by the parties hereto but,
anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, neither
the Agreement nor any provision thereof, except for this
Section 1(A), Section 1(D), Section 2(A)(2),
Section 11, Section 12(B), Section 13, and
Sections 14(A), (B), (C), (F), (N) and (O), shall be
operative unless and until there has been a Change of Control of
the Corporation, as defined in Section 12(B) below, prior to
December 31, 2006 or such later date as shall result from the
operation of Section 1(D) below (the “Terminal
Date”) and while the Executive is in the employ of the
Corporation. Upon such a Change of Control of the Corporation, this
Agreement and all provisions thereof shall become operative
immediately.
(B) The Corporation hereby
agrees to continue the employment of the Executive, and the
Executive hereby agrees to remain in the employ of the Corporation,
in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement, for
the period set forth below (the “COC Employment
Period”).
(C) The COC Employment Period
under this Agreement shall commence on the date this Agreement
becomes operative pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1(A)
above and, subject only to the provisions of Section 4 below
relating to termination of employment, shall continue until the
third anniversary of a Change of Control of the Corporation.
(D) Commencing on
December 31, 2004, and on each anniversary of such date (such
date and each such annual anniversary thereof, the “Renewal
Date”), the Terminal Date set forth in Section 1(A)
above shall be extended so as to occur three (3) years from
the Renewal Date unless either party shall have given notice to the
other party that the Terminal Date is not to be extended or further
extended.
2.
POSITION AND DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE .
(A)
Position .
(1) It is contemplated that during
the COC Employment Period the Executive will continue to serve as a
principal officer of the Corporation and as a member of its Board
of Directors if serving as a member of the Board of Directors
immediately prior to a Change of Control, as defined in
Section 12(B) below, with the office(s) and title(s),
reporting responsibility and duties and responsibilities of the
Executive on the date of this Agreement, as the same may be changed
from time to time after the date of this Agreement and prior to the
date this Agreement becomes operative pursuant to the provisions of
Section 1(A) above.
(2) The office(s), title(s),
reporting responsibility, duties and responsibilities of the
Executive on the date of this Agreement, as the same may be changed
from time to time after the date of this Agreement and prior to the
date this Agreement becomes operative pursuant to the provisions of
Section 1(A) above, shall be summarized in Exhibit A to
this Agreement, it being understood and agreed that if, as when the
office(s), title(s), reporting responsibility, duties and
responsibilities of the Executive shall be changed prior to the
date this Agreement becomes operative pursuant to the provisions of
Section 1(A) above, Exhibit A shall be deemed to be and shall
be updated by the parties to reflect such change; provided ,
however , that Exhibit A is intended only as memorandum
for the convenience of the parties and shall be disregarded if and
to the extent that, at the time this Agreement becomes operative,
Exhibit A shall fail to reflect accurately the office(s),
title(s), reporting responsibility, duties or responsibilities of
the Executive at the time because the parties shall have failed to
update Exhibit A as aforesaid after the last such change prior
to the date this Agreement shall have become operative.
(3) At all times during the COC
Employment Period, the Executive shall hold a position of
responsibility and importance and a position of scope, with the
functions, duties and responsibilities attached thereto, at least
equal in responsibility and importance and in scope to and
commensurate with his position described in general terms above in
this Section 2(A) and intended to be summarized in Exhibit A
to this Agreement.
(4) During the COC Employment Period
the Executive shall, without compensation other than that herein
provided, also serve and continue to serve, if and when elected and
re-elected, as an officer or director, or both, of any United
States Subsidiary, division or Affiliate of the Corporation.
(5) For all purposes of this
Agreement, (1) a “Subsidiary” shall mean a
corporation or other entity, of which 50% or more of the voting
securities or other equity interests is owned directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, by the Corporation,
and (2) an “Affiliate” shall mean a corporation or
other entity which is not a Subsidiary and which directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is
controlled by, or is under common control with, the Corporation.
For the purpose of this definition, the terms
“control”, “controls” and
“controlled” mean the possession, direct or indirect,
of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
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cies of a
corporation or other entity, whether through the ownership of
voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
(B) Duties . Throughout
the COC Employment Period the Executive shall devote his full time
and undivided attention during normal business hours to the
business and affairs of the Corporation except for reasonable
vacations and except for illness or incapacity, but nothing in this
Agreement shall preclude the Executive from devoting reasonable
periods required for:
(1) serving as a director or member
of a committee or any organization involving no conflict of
interest with the interests of the Corporation;
(2) delivering lectures, fulfilling
speaking engagements, teaching at educational institutions;
(3) engaging in charitable and
community activities; and
(4) managing his personal
investments;
provided , that such activities do not materially interfere
with the regular performance of his duties and responsibilities
under this Agreement.
(C) Location Of Office .
During the COC Employment Period, the office of the Executive shall
be located at the principal offices of the Corporation, within the
greater Toledo, Ohio area, and the Executive shall not be required
to locate his office elsewhere without his prior written consent,
nor shall he be required to be absent therefrom on travel status or
otherwise more than thirty (30%) of the working days in any
calendar year nor for more than ten (10) consecutive days at
any one time.
3.
COMPENSATION .
The Executive shall receive the
following compensation for his services:
(A) Salary . So long as
the Executive is employed by the Corporation, he shall be paid an
annual base salary, payable not less often than monthly, at the
rate of not less than $29,583.33 per month with such increases as
shall be awarded from time to time in accordance with the
Corporation’s regular administrative practices of other
salary increases applicable to executives of the Corporation,
subject to any and all required withholdings and deductions for
Social Security, income taxes and the like (the “Annual Base
Salary”). The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the
“Board”) may from time to time direct such upward
adjustments to Annual Base Salary as the Board deems to be
necessary or desirable; provided , however , that
during the COC Employment Period, the Annual Base Salary shall be
reviewed at least annually and shall be increased at any time and
from time to time but not less often than annually and shall be
substantially consistent with increases in base salary generally
awarded in the ordinary course of business to other senior
executives of the Corporation and its “Affiliated
Companies” (a term which, as used in this Agreement, shall
mean a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Corporation) and, in
addition, shall be adjusted effective as of January lst of each
calendar year commencing in the COC Employment Period to reflect
increases in the cost of living during the preceding calendar year.
Annual Base Salary shall not be reduced after any increase thereof
pursuant to this Section 3(A).
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Any
increase in Annual Base Salary shall not serve to limit or reduce
any other obligation of the Corporation under this Agreement.
(B) Additional
Compensation . So long as the Executive is employed by the
Corporation, he shall be eligible to receive annual short-term
incentive awards or bonuses (such award or bonus is hereinafter
referred to as “Short-Term Award” or “Annual
Bonus”) from the Dana Corporation Additional Compensation
Plan, and from any successor or replacement plan (the Dana
Corporation Additional Compensation Plan and such successor or
replacement plans being referred to herein collectively as the
“ACP”), in accordance with the terms thereof;
provided , however , that, with respect to each
fiscal year of the Corporation ending during the COC Employment
Period, the Executive shall be awarded (whether under the terms of
the ACP or otherwise) an Annual Bonus in an amount that shall not
be less than sixty percent (60%) of his Annual Base Salary rate in
effect on the last day of such fiscal year (which amount shall be
prorated if such fiscal year shall be less than 12 months).
Each Annual Bonus shall be paid no later than the end of the third
month of the fiscal year next following the fiscal year for which
the Annual Bonus is awarded, unless the receipt of such Annual
Bonus is deferred in accordance with the terms of the ACP.
(C) Incentive, Stock And
Savings Plans . So long as the Executive is employed by the
Corporation, he shall be and continue to be a full participant in
the Dana Corporation Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan, the
ACP (providing for Short-Term Awards) and in any and all other
incentive, stock, savings, practices or policies in which
executives of the Corporation participate that are in effect on the
date hereof and that may hereafter be adopted, including, without
limitation, any stock option, stock purchase or stock appreciation
plans, or any successor plans that may be adopted by the
Corporation with, except in the case of the ACP after the
commencement of the COC Employment Period, at least the same reward
opportunities, if any, that have heretofore been provided to the
Executive. Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude improvement of
reward opportunities in such plans or other plans in accordance
with the practices in effect on the first day of the calendar month
that this Agreement becomes operative. Any provision of the ACP or
of this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, any Short-Term
Awards made to the Executive (whether for services rendered prior
to or after the date this Agreement becomes operative) shall be
paid wholly in cash as soon as practicable after the awards are
made.
(D) Retirement And Welfare
Benefit Plans . The Executive, his dependents and Beneficiary,
including, without limitation, any beneficiary applicable to the
payment of benefits under the Supplemental Executive Retirement
Plan for Paul Miller, shall be entitled to all payments and
benefits and service credit for benefits during the COC Employment
Period (1) under the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
for Paul Miller and (2) to which other senior executives of
the Corporation, their dependents and their beneficiaries are
entitled under the terms of employee retirement and welfare benefit
plans and practices of the Corporation, including, without
limitation, the Corporation’s SavingsWorks Plan, its Stock
Purchase Plan, its Income Protection Plan for Management and
Certain Other Employees providing layoff and severance benefits,
its 1989 and 1999 Restricted Stock Plans, its death benefit plans
(consisting of its Group Insurance Plan for Management Employees
providing life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment
insurance, and travel accident insurance), its disability benefit
plans (consisting of its salary continuation, sickness and accident
and long-term disability benefits programs), its medical, dental
and health and welfare plans and other present or equivalent
successor plans and practices of the
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Corporation, its Subsidiaries and divisions, for which officers,
their dependents and beneficiaries, are eligible, and to all
payments or other benefits under any such plan or practice
subsequent to the COC Employment Period as a result of
participation in such plan or practice during the COC Employment
Period.
(E) Expenses . So long
as the Executive is employed by the Corporation, he shall be
entitled to receive prompt reimbursement for all reasonable
expenses incurred by the Executive in accordance with the polices,
practices and procedures of the Corporation and its Affiliated
Companies from time to time in effect, commensurate with his
position and on a basis at least comparable to that of other senior
executives of the Corporation.
(F) Fringe Benefits . So
long as the Executive is employed by the Corporation, he shall be
entitled to fringe benefits, including, without limitation, the
business and personal use of an automobile, and payment or
reimbursement of club initiation fees and dues, in accordance with
the plans, practices, programs and policies of the Corporation and
its Affiliated Companies from time to time in effect, commensurate
with his position and at least comparable to those received by
other senior executives of the Corporation.
(G) Office And Support
Staff . So long as the Executive is employed by the
Corporation, he shall be entitled to an office or offices of a size
and with furnishings and other appointments, and to exclusive
personal secretarial and other assistance, commensurate with his
position and at least comparable to those received by other senior
executives of the Corporation.
(H) Vacation And Other
Absences . So long as the Executive is employed by the
Corporation, he shall be entitled to paid vacation and such other
paid absences whether for holidays, illness, personal time or any
similar purposes, in accordance with the plans, policies, programs
and practices of the Corporation and its Affiliated Companies in
effect from time to time, commensurate with his position and at
least comparable to those received by other senior executives of
the Corporation.
(I) Benefits Shall Not Be
Reduced Under Certain Circumstances . Nothing in this Agreement
shall preclude the Corporation from amending or terminating any
employee benefit or welfare plan or practice, but, it being the
intent of the parties that the Executive shall continue to be
entitled during the COC Employment Period to perquisites as set
forth in this Section 3 and to benefits and service credit for
benefits under Section 3(D) above at least equal to those
attached to his position on the date of this Agreement, and except
as provided in the last sentence of this Section 3(I), nothing
in this Agreement shall operate or be construed to reduce, or
authorize a reduction without the Executive’s written consent
in, the level of such perquisites, benefits or service credit for
benefits; in the event of any such reduction, by amendment or
termination of any plan or practice or otherwise, the Executive,
his dependents and Beneficiary, shall continue to be entitled to
perquisites, benefits and service credit for benefits at least
equal to the perquisites, benefits and service credit for benefits
under such plans or practices that he or his dependents and
Beneficiary would have received if such reduction had not taken
place. If and to the extent that such perquisites, benefits and
service credits are not payable or provided under any such plans or
practices by reason of such amendment or termination thereof, the
Corporation itself shall pay or provide therefor. Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Section 3(I), the Executive
hereby waives the benefit of the foregoing minimum benefit
protection only as it
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applies
to the Dana Corporation SavingsWorks Plan, and to its medical,
dental and health plans. The Executive expressly does not waive the
application of the foregoing minimum benefit protection to any of
the other benefit plans, programs or practices enumerated in
Section 3 above, including, without limitation, the
Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan for Paul Miller, the
Corporation’s death benefit plans, its disability benefit
plans, and its Income Protection Plan for Management and Certain
Other Employees. The Executive reserves the right to cancel the
above waiver, prospectively, at any future time by giving written
notice to the Corporation of such cancellation. Nothing in this
Section 3(I) shall be construed to prohibit the Corporation
from amending or terminating any employee benefit or welfare plan
or practice to reduce benefits, so long as such reduction applies
to all salaried Corporation employees covered by such plan or
practice equally and such reduction is adopted prior to the Change
of Control Date.
(J) Certain Retirement And
Severance Definitions .
(1) The term “Severance
Compensation” shall mean the sum of (1) one-twelfth
(1/12) of the Annual Base Salary provided in Section 3(A) at
the rate being paid at the time the Executive’s termination
of employment occurred, and (2) one-twelfth (1/12) of the
greater of (x) the average of the highest Annual Bonuses
payable to the Executive for any three (3) consecutive full or
partial fiscal years during his employment by the Corporation or
(y) the Executive’s target annual bonus (currently 60%)
in effect under the ACP as of the Date of Termination (which, for
purposes of this Section 3(J) and notwithstanding any
reduction following the Change of Control Date, shall not be less
than the Executive’s target annual bonus as of immediately
prior to the Change of Control Date).
(2) The term “Service”
shall mean employment as an employee by the Corporation, any
Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof or any corporation the capital
stock or assets of which have been acquired by, or which has been
merged into or consolidated with the Corporation or any Subsidiary
or Affiliate thereof.
4.
TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT .
(A) Death Or Disability
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(1) The Executive’s employment
shall terminate automatically upon the Executive’s death
during the COC Employment Period.
(2) If the Corporation determines in
good faith that the Disability (as defined below) of the Executive
has occurred during the COC Employment Period, it may give to the
Executive written notice in accordance with Section 14(B)
below of its intention to terminate the Executive’s
employment. In such event, the COC Employment Period shall
terminate effective on the 30th day after receipt of such notice by
the Executive (the “Disability Effective Date”),
provided , that within the 30 days after such receipt,
the Executive shall not have returned to full-time performance of
the Executive’s duties. For purposes of this Agreement,
“Disability” shall mean the absence of the Executive
from the Executive’s duties with the Corporation on a
full-time basis for 180 consecutive business days as a result of
incapacity due to mental or physical illness which is
determined
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to be total and
permanent by a physician selected by the Corporation or its
insurers and acceptable to the Executive or the Executive’s
legal representative (such agreement as to acceptability not to be
withheld unreasonably).
(B) Cause . The
Corporation may terminate the Executive’s employment during
the COC Employment Period for Cause. For purposes of this
Agreement, the termination of the Executive’s employment
shall be deemed to have been for “Cause” only
(1) if termination of his employment
shall have been the result of his conviction of, or plea of guilty
or nolo contendere to, the charge of having committed a felony
(whether or not such conviction is later reversed for any reason),
or
(2) if there has been a breach by the
Executive during the COC Employment Period of the provisions of
Section 2(B), relating to the time to be devoted to the
affairs of the Corporation, or of Section 9, relating to
confidential information, and such breach results in demonstrably
material injury to the Corporation, and, with respect to any
alleged breach of Section 2(B) hereof, the Executive shall
have either failed to remedy such alleged breach within thirty days
from his receipt of written notice from the Secretary of the
Corporation pursuant to resolution duly adopted by the Board of
Directors of the Corporation after notice to the Executive and an
opportunity to be heard demanding that he remedy such alleged
breach, or shall have failed to take all reasonable steps to that
end during such thirty-day period and thereafter;
provided , that there shall have been delivered to the
Executive a certified copy of a resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation adopted by the affirmative vote of not
less than three-fourths of the entire membership of the Board of
Directors called and held for that purpose and at which the
Executive was given an opportunity to be heard, finding that the
Executive was guilty of conduct set forth in subparagraph
(1) or (2) above, specifying the particulars thereof in
detail.
Anything in this Section 4(B) or
elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the
employment of the Executive shall in no event be considered to have
been terminated by the Corporation for Cause if termination of his
employment took place
(1) as
the result of bad judgment or negligence on the part of the
Executive, or
(2) because of an act or omission believed by the Executive in
good faith to have been in or not opposed to the interests of the
Corporation, or
(3) for
any act or omission in respect of which a determination could
properly be made that the Executive met the applicable standard of
conduct prescribed for indemnification or reimbursement or payment
of expenses under (A) the Bylaws of the Corporation, or
(B) the laws of the State of Virginia, or (C) the
directors’ and officers’ liability insurance of the
Corporation, in each case either
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as in effect
at the time of this Agreement or in effect at the time of such act
or omission, or
(4) as
the result of an act or omission which occurred more than twelve
calendar months prior to the Executive’s having been given
notice of the termination of his employment for such act or
omission unless the commission of such act or such omission could
not at the time of such commission or omission have been known to a
member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (other than the
Executive, if he is then a member of the Board of Directors), in
which case more than twelve calendar months from the date that the
commission of such act or such omission was or could reasonably
have been so known, or
(5) as
the result of a continuing course of action which commenced and was
or could reasonably have been known to a member of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation (other than the Executive, if he is
then a member of the Board of Directors) more than twelve calendar
months prior to notice having been given to the Executive of the
termination of his employment.
(C) Good Reason . The
Executive may terminate his employment during the COC Employment
Period for Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement, “Good
Reason” shall mean the occurrence (without the
Executive’s express written consent) of any of the following
events, unless in the case of any act or failure to act described
in clauses (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) below, such act or
failure to act is corrected by the Corporation within 30 days
after receipt by the Corporation of written notice from the
Executive in respect of such event:
(1) Failure to elect or reelect the
Executive to the Board of Directors of the Corporation, if the
Executive shall have been a member of the Board of Directors on the
date of this Agreement or at any time thereafter during the COC
Employment Period, or a substantial diminution in the
Executive’s title(s) or office(s) described in
Section 2(A) above and intended to be summarized in
Exhibit A to this Agreement, or the removal of Executive from
any such positions.
(2) A material change or diminution
in the position, duties, responsibilities or status of the
Executive that is adversely inconsistent with the position, duties,
responsibilities or status attached to the position described in
Section 2 above and intended to be summarized in
Exhibit A to this Agreement.
(3) The Executive’s
compensation, annual bonus opportunity or benefit entitlements as
in effect immediately prior to the Change of Control or as
increased following the Change of Control are reduced.
(4) A breach by the Corporation of
any provision of this Agreement not embraced within the foregoing
clauses (1), (2) and (3) of this Section 4(C).
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(5) The liquidation, dissolution,
consolidation or merger of the Corporation or transfer of all or a
significant portion of its assets unless a successor or successors
(by merger, consolidation or otherwise) to which all or a
significant portion of its assets have been transferred shall have
assumed all duties and obligations of the Corporation under this
Agreement but without releasing the corporation that is the
original party to this Agreement;
provided , that in any event set forth in this
Section 4(C), the Executive shall have elected to terminate
his employment under this Agreement, upon not less than ten and not
more than ninety days’ advance written notice to the
Corporation, attention of the Secretary, given, except in the case
of a continuing breach, within three calendar months after
(A) failure to be so elected or reelected, or removal,
(B) expiration of the 30-day cure period with respect to such
event, or (C) the closing date of such liquidation,
dissolution, consolidation, merger or transfer of assets, as the
case may be. The Executive’s mental or physical incapacity
following the occurrence of an event described above in clauses
(1) through (5) shall not affect the Executive’s
ability to terminate employment for Good Reason.
An election by the Executive to
terminate his employment for Good Reason under the provisions of
this Section 4(C) shall not be deemed a voluntary termination
of employment by the Executive for the purpose of this Agreement or
any plan or practice of the Corporation.
(D) Notice Of
Termination . Any termination by the Corporation for Cause, or
by the Executive for Good Reason, shall be communicated by Notice
of Termination to the other party hereto given in accordance with
Section 14(B) below. For purposes of this Agreement, a
“Notice of Termination” means a written notice
which
(1) indicates the specific
termination provision in this Agreement relied upon,
(2) to the extent applicable, sets
forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to
provide a basis for termination of the Executive’s employment
under the provision so indicated and
(3) if the Date of Termination (as
defined in Section 4(E) below) is other than the date of
receipt of such notice, specifies the termination date (which date
shall be not more than fifteen days after the giving of such
notice).
(E) Date Of Termination
. “Date of Termination” means
(1) if the Executive’s
employment is terminated by the Corporation for Cause, or by the
Executive for Good Reason, the later of (a) the date of
receipt of the Notice of Termination or any later date specified
therein, as the case may be or (b) the end of any applicable
30-day cure period described in Section 4(C),
(2) if the Executive’s
employment is terminated by the Corporation other than for Cause or
Disability, the Date of Termination shall be the date on which the
Corporation notifies the Executive of such termination and
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(3) if the Executive’s
employment is terminated by reason of death or Disability, the Date
of Termination shall be the date of death of the Executive or the
Disability Effective Date, as the case may be.
5.
OBLIGATIONS OF THE CORPORATION UPON TERMINATION .
(A) Termination Other Than
For Cause . If, during the COC Employment Period, the
Corporation shall terminate the Executive’s employment other
than for Cause or the Executive shall terminate his employment
following a Change of Control for Good Reason (termination in any
such case referred to as “Termination”) and subject to
the Executive entering into and not revoking a release (unless the
Corporation determines not to request such release) substantially
in the form set forth as Exhibit B hereto:
(1) the Corporation shall pay the
Executive in a lump sum in cash within 30 days after the Date
of Termination the sum of
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the Executive’s Annual Base Salary through the Date of
Termination to the extent not theretofore paid, |
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to the extent that the Annual Bonus has not been paid to the
Executive in respect of the fiscal year in which the Date of
Termination occurs, the product of (x) the Executive’s
target annual bonus in effect under the ACP as of the Date of
Termination (which, for purposes of Section 3(J) and
notwithstanding any reduction following the Change of Control Date,
shall not be less than the Executive’s target annual bonus as
of immediately prior to the Change of Control Date) and (y) a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the
current fiscal year through the Date of Termination, and the
denominator of which is 365, and |
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any compensation previously deferred by the Executive (together
with any accrued interest or earnings thereon) and any accrued
vacation pay |
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