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AMENDED AND RESTATED MASCO CORPORATION RETIREMENT BENEFIT RESTORATION PLAN

Employee Benefits Plan Agreement

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Title: AMENDED AND RESTATED MASCO CORPORATION RETIREMENT BENEFIT RESTORATION PLAN
Date: 2/17/2009
Industry: Furniture and Fixtures     Sector: Consumer Cyclical

AMENDED AND RESTATED MASCO CORPORATION RETIREMENT BENEFIT RESTORATION PLAN, Parties: 11 adoption masco corporation
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
MASCO CORPORATION
RETIREMENT BENEFIT
RESTORATION PLAN

Effective January 1, 1995
As Amended and Restated
Effective October 22, 2008

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 1 - ADOPTION OF PLAN

 

 

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1.1 Adoption

 

 

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1.2 Purpose

 

 

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1.3 Construction

 

 

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SECTION 2 - COVERAGE

 

 

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2.1 Covered Employees

 

 

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2.2 Commencement and Cessation of Coverage

 

 

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SECTION 3 - BENEFITS

 

 

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3.1 Amount

 

 

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3.2 Timing and Form of Payments

 

 

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3.3 Forfeitability

 

 

4

 

3.4 No Payment During Employment

 

 

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3.5 Delay of Payment

 

 

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SECTION 4 - SOURCE OF BENEFITS AND CHANGE OF CONTROL

 

 

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4.1 Cost of Plan

 

 

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4.2 Option to Fund Informally

 

 

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4.3 Physical Examinations

 

 

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4.4 No Employee Contributions or Loans

 

 

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4.5 Change of Control

 

 

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SECTION 5 - ADMINISTRATION

 

 

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5.1 Plan Administrator and Named Fiduciary

 

 

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5.2 Claims Procedure

 

 

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5.3 Arbitration.

 

 

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SECTION 6 - LIMITATION OF COVERED EMPLOYEE’S RIGHTS

 

 

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6.1 No Contract of Employment

 

 

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6.2 Unsecured Creditor

 

 

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6.3 No Trust

 

 

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SECTION 7 - AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION

 

 

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7.1 Right to Amend or Terminate Plan

 

 

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7.2 Limitations

 

 

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7.3 Payment of Benefits Upon Termination

 

 

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SECTION 8 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

 

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8.1 Independence of Benefits

 

 

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8.2 Nonalienation of Benefits

 

 

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8.3 Payments for the Benefit of Employee

 

 

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8.4 Use of Words

 

 

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8.5 Headings

 

 

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8.6 Savings Clause

 

 

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SECTION 9 - DEFINITIONS

 

 

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9.1 Code

 

 

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9.2 Company

 

 

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9.3 ERISA

 

 

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9.4 Plan

 

 

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9.5 Masco

 

 

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9.6 Retirement

 

 

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9.7 Change of Control

 

 

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9.8 Deferred Compensation Trust

 

 

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9.9 Beneficiary

 

 

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9.10 Gross-Up Amount

 

 

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9.11 Present Value

 

 

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9.12 PBGC

 

 

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9.13 Control Change

 

 

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9.14 Covered Benefits

 

 

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SECTION 10 - EXECUTION

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED
MASCO CORPORATION RETIREMENT
BENEFIT RESTORATION PLAN

SECTION 1
ADOPTION OF PLAN

          1.1 Adoption . Masco Corporation (“Masco”) hereby adopts the Masco Corporation Retirement Benefit Restoration Plan (“Plan”), originally effective January 1, 1995 (“Effective Date”), as amended and restated herein effective October 22, 2008 (“Restatement Effective Date”).

          1.2 Purpose . The sole purpose of the Plan is to provide benefits to a select group of management or highly compensated employees, that would be provided to such employees who terminate employment or retire after the Effective Date under certain retirement plans of Masco Corporation and its subsidiaries, which plans are set forth in Appendix “A” hereto and are qualified plans under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Code) (the “Qualified Plans”, “Qualified Pension Plans” or “Qualified Profit Sharing Plans”), but for the benefit limitations of the Code, in order to encourage the continued employment and diligent service of such employees with Masco or the company (as hereinafter defined) following the Effective Date. Accordingly (by way of example and not limitation), in no event shall the provisions of the Plan be construed to benefit any employee whose termination of employment occurred prior to the Effective Date. Effective as of the Restatement Effective Date, the Plan as amended and restated herein shall apply to all those employees then eligible to participate hereunder, as well as to all persons who terminated employment prior to such date who retain a deferred vested right to benefits under the Plan or to whom retirement benefits are being paid under the Plan.

          1.3 Construction . The Plan shall be construed in accordance with Michigan law, except where preempted by federal law. It is intended that the Plan, except as permitted herein, shall be unfunded and maintained by Masco primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees, so that the Plan is exempt from the requirements of Parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA). All provisions of the Plan shall be interpreted in accordance with such intentions.

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SECTION 2
COVERAGE

          2.1 Covered Employees . The coverage of the Plan shall be limited to highly-compensated or management employees of Masco and of those subsidiaries of Masco the Qualified Plans of which are listed in Appendix “A”, who individually (a) receives from Masco or the subsidiary of Masco which is the employer of such person (“company”) annual compensation otherwise eligible for coverage under the terms of such Qualified Plan which exceeds the applicable limit as provided by Section 401(a)(17) of the Code, or (b) whose benefits or contributions under the Qualified Plans are reduced due to the application of Section 415 of the Code (hereinafter, “employee”).

          2.2 Commencement and Cessation of Coverage . An employee shall be covered under the Plan commencing on the later of (a) the Effective Date or (b) the earlier of the date that his plan-eligible compensation described in paragraph 2.1 first exceeds the annual limitation amount described in paragraph 2.1 or the date his benefits or contributions under the Qualified Plans are first reduced by the application of Code Section 415. An employee shall cease to be covered by the Plan on his date of termination of employment from Masco or the company and any of their subsidiaries. If prior to such termination an employee ceases to qualify for coverage under the Plan due to some other event (by way of examples and not as limitation, a decrease in Plan-eligible compensation or the commencement of employment with Masco or the company or any of their subsidiaries, which employer has no Qualified Plan or has discontinued its Qualified Plan), his coverage under the Plan shall cease as of the time such disqualifying event occurs and only the benefits accrued hereunder up to such time shall be payable from this Plan.

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SECTION 3
BENEFITS

          3.1 Amount . A covered employee shall be entitled hereunder to either or both, as applicable, of the following supplemental retirement benefits:

     (a) An annual amount equal to the benefit which would have been payable to the employee under any defined benefit (pension) Qualified Plan in which he is a participant (“Qualified Pension Plan”), computed without regard to any benefit limitations imposed by the Code on the computation or amount of such benefit, and reduced (but not below zero) by any benefits which the employee is eligible to receive, prior to giving effect to any qualified domestic relations order or tax levy, under any such Qualified Pension Plan, each benefit being expressed for this purpose in the normal form of payment under said Qualified Pension Plan;

     (b) A single sum amount equal to the difference between (1) the cumulative total of employer contributions (other than contributions characterized as elective deferrals under Code Section 401(k) or matching contributions under Section 401(m)) which from time to time would have been contributed to the account of the employee with respect to periods after December 31, 1993 under any defined contribution (profit sharing) Qualified Plan in which he is a participant computed without regard to any limitations imposed by the Code on the determination or amount of such employer contributions and (2) the actual employer profit sharing contributions made during such periods prior to giving effect to any qualified domestic relations order or tax levy, with such difference adjusted by the average of the investment earnings (or losses) actually experienced for each such period in the Fidelity Freedom Funds which are offered as investment choices in the Masco Corporation Future Service Profit Sharing Plan (or in such other index fund or funds as Masco may determine from time to time), as if the contributions in (1) above had been made simultaneously with the actual contributions referenced in (2) above.

In no case shall there be any adjustments for forfeitures of any kind and no payment made pursuant to this Plan shall have any gross-up for tax effect, other than as provided under paragraphs 4.5 or 4.6 hereof.

          3.2 Timing and Form of Payments . (a) Retirement benefit payments hereunder which are supplemental to a Qualified Pension Plan shall be made commencing at Retirement and shall be payable either (i) for an employee who is unmarried at the time payments commence, in the form of a single life annuity, (ii) for any employee who is married when payments commence, in the form of a 50% joint and survivor annuity with the employee’s spouse, or (iii) in an optional form which the employee validly elects (pursuant to the same procedures, and for the same optional forms, as are specified in the Qualified Pension Plan) for payment of benefits hereunder. Any optional form selected shall be paid at such times and in such amounts as are in the aggregate, actuarially equivalent to the Plan’s payments when made

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as a single life annuity (including, as applicable, additional early commencement actuarial reduction for amounts payable under paragraph 3.1(a) which commence prior to the Qualified Pension Plan’s normal retirement date, other than benefits (for example, disability benefits) which by their terms would be payable prior to the normal retirement date with no reduction for early commencement); such actuarial equivalents shall be computed using the same formulas and actuarial factors as set forth for determinations of comparable optional forms of benefits as are offered under the Qualified Pension Plan; for purposes of this paragraph 3.2(a), an employee’s marital status and spouse shall be determined in accordance with the Qualified Pension Plan. Other than as provided in paragraphs 4.5 and 4.6 or in the case of a benefit the Present Value of which is less than $5000, the Plan may not make an actuarially equivalent payment in the form of a lump sum.

          (b) A sum payable hereunder which is supplemental to a Qualified Profit Sharing Plan shall be paid in a single lump sum promptly following Retirement to the employee (or to the Beneficiary named under the Qualified Profit Sharing Plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, such payment shall be subject to delay as described in paragraph 3.5 for those persons subject thereto.

          3.3 Forfeitability . Except as provided in paragraph 4.5(a)(i), the right to any payment of benefits under the Plan shall be vested in the same manner and to the same extent as benefits are vested under the Qualified Pension and Qualified Profit Sharing Plans.

          3.4 No Payment During Employment . Notwithstanding the foregoing, no periodic payments computed under paragraph 3.1 shall be made until after termination of employment from Masco, the company or any of their subsidiaries.

          3.5 Delay of Payment . Notwithstanding the foregoing, any payments of Covered Benefits (those benefits subject to the provisions of Code Section 409A) otherwise payable hereunder to an employee who is a person described in 26 CFR 1.409A-1(i) shall be delayed for the first six months following termination of employment, and after six months such delayed payments shall be paid to the employee in a single lump sum, with no interest adjustment for such delay.

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SECTION 4
SOURCE OF BENEFITS AND CHANGE OF CONTROL

          4.1 Cost of Plan . Other than as provided in paragraphs 4.2, 4.5 and 4.6, the entire cost of providing benefits under the Plan, including the costs of the Plan Administrator, shall be paid by Masco out of its general assets, and Masco’s obligations under the Plan shall be an unfunded and unsecured promise to pay. Other than as provided in paragraphs 4.2, 4.5 and 4.6, Masco shall not be obligated to separately fund its obligations under the Plan.

          4.2 Option to Fund Informally . Notwithstanding paragraph 4.1, Masco may, at its sole option, or by agreement, informally fund its obligations under the Plan in whole or in part, provided, however, in no event shall such informal funding be construed to create any trust fund (other than pursuant to paragraphs 4.5 and 4.6), escrow account or other security for an employee with respect to the payment of benefits under the Plan. Furthermore, if Masco decides to informally fund the Plan, in whole or in part, by procuring, as owner, life insurance for its own benefit on the lives of employees, the form of such insurance and the amounts thereof shall be the sole decision of Masco, and in no event shall an employee have any incidents of ownership in any such policies of insurance.

          4.3 Physical Examinations . If a physical examination is required for Masco to obtain insurance for covered employees under paragraph 4.2, each employee agrees to undergo such physical examinations as may be required by the insurance carrier. Such physical examinations shall be conducted by a physician approved by Masco, at the expense of Masco.

          4.4 No Employee Contributions or Loans . No loans or hardship distributions or contributions by employees are permitted or required under the Plan.

          4.5 Change of Control . (a) Immediately upon the occurrence of any Change of Control:

(i) If the employee is then employed by Masco or the company, if not already 100%, vesting in all benefits hereunder shall be deemed for all purposes of this Plan to be 100%.

(ii) Masco shall forthwith deposit to an account in the employee’s name (or that of the employee’s Beneficiary if the employee is then deceased and the employee’s Beneficiary is entitled to benefits hereunder) in the Deferred Compensation Trust, which Masco shall theretofore have established, 110% of the sum of the Gross-Up Amount plus:

(A) If the employee is then employed by Masco or the company, an amount equal to the discounted Present Value of the benefits which would have been payable under paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2 of this Plan upon

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Retirement at age 65 or attained age if greater, assuming for purposes of this clause, no compensation increases and that if younger than age 65 the employee and the employee’s Beneficiary had attained such age;

(B) If employment has previously been terminated but the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary is then entitled in the future to receive benefits under this Plan, an amount equal to the discounted Present Value of the benefits which would have been so payable; and

(C) If the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary is then receiving payments under paragraph 3.2 of this Plan, an amount equal to the Present Value of those benefits payable in the future to the employee and the employee’s Beneficiary.

(b) If the Deferred Compensation Trust is not established prior to or within thirty days after the Change of Control, all payments which would otherwise have been made to the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary from the Deferred Compensation Trust shall immediately after such thirty day period be made to the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary by Masco.

(c) Any deposit by Masco to an account in the employee’s name or that of the employee’s Beneficiary in the Deferred Compensation Trust prior to the occurrence of the Change of Control, together with all income then accrued thereon (but only to the extent of the value of such deposited amount and the income accrued thereon on the day of any deposit under clause (a)(ii) of this paragraph 4.5), shall reduce by an equal amount the obligations of Masco to make the deposit required under clause (a)(ii) of this paragraph 4.5.

(d) At or prior to making the deposit required by clause (a)(ii) of this paragraph 4.5, Masco shall deliver to the Trustee under the Deferred Compensation Trust a certificate specifying that portion, if any, of the amount in the trust account, after giving effect to the deposit, which is represented by the Gross-Up Amount. Payment of 90.91% of the amount required by clause (a)(ii) of this paragraph 4.5 to be paid to the trust account, together with any income accrued thereon from the date of the Change of Control, is to be made to the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary, as applicable, under the terms of the Deferred Compensation Trust, at the earlier of (1) immediately upon a Change of Control if the employee then is deceased or has attained age 65, (2) the employee’s death subsequent to the Change of Control, or (3) the date which is one year after the Change of Control (subject, in each case, to paragraph 3.5 if applicable); provided , however , that the Trustee under the Deferred Compensation Trust is required promptly to pay to the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary, as applicable, from the trust account from time to time amounts, not exceeding in the aggregate the Gross-Up Amount, upon the employee’s or the employee’s Beneficiary’s certification to the Trustee that the amount to be paid has been or within 60 days will be paid by the employee or the employee’s Beneficiary to a Federal, state or local taxing authority as a result of the Change of Control and the imposition of the excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code (or any

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successor provision) on the receipt of any portion of the Gross-Up Amount. All amounts in excess of the amount required to be paid from the trust account by the preceding sentence, after all expenses of the Deferred Compensation Trust have been paid and the Deferred Compensation Trust has been t


 
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