Exhibit 10.03
FAIRCHILD INCENTIVE PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective
April 1, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Objective and
Structure
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Definitions
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Effective
Date
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4.
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Eligibility for
Plan Participation
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Target Awards
and Participation Levels
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Calculation and
Payment of Awards
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Factors
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Performance
Goal
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C.
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Calculation of
Awards
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D.
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Extraordinary
Events
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E.
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Payment
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Termination of
Employment
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Interpretations
and Rule-Making
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Declaration of
Incentives, Amendment or Discontinuance
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10.
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Miscellaneous
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FAIRCHILD INCENTIVE
PLAN
(As Amended and Restated
Effective April 1, 2009)
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Objective
and Structure
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The Fairchild Incentive Plan (the
“Plan”) is designed to help retain eligible employees
and reward them for contributing to the success and profitability
of the Company. These objectives are accomplished by making
incentive awards under the Plan and providing Participants with a
proprietary interest in the growth and performance of the Company.
The Plan is a non-ERISA cash bonus plan providing cash awards on a
periodic basis to eligible Fairchild employees based on measures of
business performance for the measurement period. The Plan, as set
forth in this document and amended hereafter, also may be referred
to by the acronym FIP.
Whenever used in the Plan, unless
otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings set forth below:
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Award:
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The amount, if
any, to be paid to a Plan Participant for a particular Measurement
Period.
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Award Date:
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The date on
which a FIP Award, if any, is due to be paid. Awards may be issued
once or twice for each Company fiscal year so there shall be annual
or semi-annual Award Dates. They shall be no later than sixty (60)
days after the last day of each Measurement Period, or fifteen (15)
days after consolidated financial statements for the Measurement
Period are completed and accepted by the Company, whichever
deadline is later.
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Company:
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Fairchild
Semiconductor Corporation (“FSC”) or any corporate
successor or assign which adopts or assumes the Plan. For purposes
of eligibility to participate in the Plan, the term
“Company,” as used herein, may also refer to any
subsidiary or affiliate of FSC which adopts the Plan with the
approval of FSC.
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Committee:
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The Plan
administrator shall be a committee consisting of the Executive Vice
President and CFO, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, and the
Senior Vice President and General Counsel. The Committee shall be
responsible for the administration of the Plan, as provided in
Article 8 below, but may delegate routine administrative or
clerical duties to one or more officers or employees of the
Company. The actions, duties and responsibilities of the Committee
noted and called for herein, are subject to the approval and
discretion of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company where
stated herein.
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Disability :
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Inability to
perform any services for the Company, combined with eligibility to
receive disability benefits under the standards used by the
Company’s long-term disability benefit plan.
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Employee :
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An individual
in the regular full-time or regular part-time employ of the Company
(or having comparable status in any foreign location of the
Company, as determined by foreign management and approved by the
Committee based on applicable local laws, customs and practices) at
any time during the Measurement Period, not including any
non-regular employees. Members of a collective bargaining unit, if
any, shall be considered Employees for purposes of the Plan only if
they satisfy the eligibility conditions of the preceding sentence
and their collective bargaining agreement provides for their
participation in the Plan. Any regular employees in a class that is
eligible for a different incentive plan – including, without
limitation: (i) sales, marketing and other employees who are
eligible for the Company’s Sales Incentive Plan (or any
successor plan thereto); (ii) any newly acquired employees who
remain subject to either their prior employer’s incentive or
bonus plan or to any special or transitional incentive or bonus
plan assumed or adopted by the Company in connection with the
acquisition of such employees; and (iii) any other group of one or
more employees who the Committee determines either is covered by a
different bonus or incentive plan or arrangement (except for the
Company’s Key Technologist Incentive Award Plan) or shall not
be covered by this Plan nor any other bonus or incentive plan or
arrangement -- shall not be considered Employees under this Plan
for any Measurement Period during which they fall within any such
exclusion, except to the extent otherwise determined by the
Committee or otherwise specified herein. Employees who are subject
to a separate incentive or bonus pay formula pursuant to a written
employment agreement entered into with their employer and to which
the Company or subsidiary becomes obligated also shall be excluded
from eligible Employee status under this Plan for any Measurement
Periods to which that other arrangement applies, the same as if
such Employees were instead covered by another group incentive
plan, in accordance with the preceding rules.
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Extraordinary
Occurrence
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An event that,
in the opinion of the Committee and with the Chief Executive
Officer’s concurrence, is beyond the significant influence of
Plan Participants or the Company and causes a significant
unintended effect, positive or negative, on Company operating and
financial results for a particular Measurement Period.
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Measurement
Period :
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The period of
performance on which Awards are based. The Measurement Periods
shall be the annual or semi-annual periods corresponding to the
fiscal year or the first half and the second half, respectively, of
the Company’s fiscal year. The Committee shall have sole
discretion in determining whether the Measurement Period shall be
annual or semi-annual.
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Participant :
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An Employee who
at the time shall be a Participant in accordance with the
provisions of Article 4.
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Participation
Levels :
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The allocation
of Participants into groups, by job code level or management
selection, as set forth in Article 4 and 5, for which a single
Target Award level applies within the group ( i.e. , for
that Participation Level). Different Target Award levels may apply
to different groups and within the same job code level, at the
discretion of the Chief Executive Officer. Absent any such special
designations by the Chief Executive Officer, unless otherwise
provided in this Plan a uniform Target Award level of 5% of
Qualified Earnings shall apply to all Participants, so there shall
be just one Participation level as well.
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Performance
Goal :
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Levels of
performance shall be set in accordance with one or more financial
and strategic goals developed by the Chief Executive Officer (with
Board approval) for the Company and, if further desired, for any
division, department, or other business unit or Employee group
within the Company. For each goal up to three levels of performance
may beset, as follows:
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