Exhibit 10.3
CASUAL MALE RETAIL GROUP, INC.
NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I—INTRODUCTION
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1.1 Purpose of Plan
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1.2 Status of Plan
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ARTICLE II—DEFINITIONS
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ARTICLE III—PARTICIPATION
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3.1 Commencement of Participation
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3.2 Contents of Election Form
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3.3 Employment Transfers
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ARTICLE IV—CONTRIBUTIONS
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4.1 Participant Contributions
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4.2 Employer Contributions
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ARTICLE V—ACCOUNTS
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5.1 Accounts
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5.2 Statement of Accounts
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5.3 Investments
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ARTICLE VI—VESTING
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6.1 General
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6.2 Forfeiture Events
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ARTICLE VII—PAYMENT OF
BENEFITS
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7.1 Distribution Events
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7.2 Disability
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7.3 Unforeseeable Emergency
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7.4 Change in Control of the Company
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7.5 Death of Participant
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7.6 Form of Payment
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7.7 Prohibition on Acceleration of
Payments
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7.8 Beneficiary
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7.9 Withholding of Taxes
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ARTICLE VIII—PLAN
ADMINISTRATION
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8.1 Company Duties
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8.2 Plan Administration and
Interpretation
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8.3 Powers, Duties, Procedures, Etc. of Plan
Administrator
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8.4 Information
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8.5 Indemnification of the Plan
Administrator
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8.6 Plan Administration Expenses
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8.7 Claims Procedure
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ARTICLE IX—AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION OF
PLAN
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9.1 Amendments
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9.2 Termination of Plan
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9.3 Existing Rights
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ARTICLE X—MISCELLANEOUS
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10.1 No Funding
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10.2 Nonassignability
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10.3 Location of Participant or Beneficiary
Unknown
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10.4 Employment Status
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10.5 Participants Bound
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10.6 Receipt and Release
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10.7 Governing Law
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10.8 Validity and Severability
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10.9 Headings and Subheadings
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ARTICLE
I—INTRODUCTION
Casual Male Retail Group, Inc. (the
“Company”) adopted the Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan (known as the
“Wraparound Plan” prior to January 1, 2008 and
herein referred to as the “Plan”) effective
November 1, 2006 to recognize the contribution of certain
designated managerial associates to the success of the Company and
its subsidiaries and to provide such managerial associates with the
opportunity to defer compensation in addition to their deferrals
under qualified plans sponsored by the Company. Since inception,
the Plan has operated in good faith compliance with Internal
Revenue Code Section 409A and the regulations and other
guidance issued thereunder.
The Plan is intended to provide a
select group of management and highly compensated employees of the
Company, within the meaning of Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and
401(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(“ERISA”), with the opportunity to defer a portion of
their Compensation and to receive any discretionary Employer
Contributions made by the Company and to have these contributions
treated as if invested in specified investments.
The Plan has been amended and
restated as set forth herein, in order to comply with the
provisions of Section 409A of the Code, with such amendment
and restatement to have retroactive effect, as necessary to comply
with such provisions.
The Plan is intended to be “a
plan which is unfunded and is maintained by an employer primarily
for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select
group of management or highly compensated employees” within
the meaning of Sections 201(2) and 301(a)(3) of ERISA, and to
provide for deferral of constructive receipt and federal income
taxation of contributions to the Plan, and the Plan shall be
interpreted and administered to the extent possible in a manner
consistent with that intent.
ARTICLE
II—DEFINITIONS
Whenever used herein, the following
terms have the meanings set forth below, unless a different meaning
is clearly required by the context:
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2.1
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Account means, for each Participant, the bookkeeping
account established by the Company into which the Company may make
contributions in accordance with Article IV.
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2.2
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Associate
Deferrals means the
pre-tax deferral amounts contributed to the Plan by an Eligible
Employee. Such amounts shall be made by means of payroll deduction
in any whole percentage or dollar amount of Compensation. There is
no maximum imposed on Associate Deferrals under this
Plan.
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Associated
Plan means, under the
terms of the Plan in effect prior to January 1, 2008, the
Casual Male Retail Group, Inc. 401(k) Salaried Plan.
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2.4
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Beneficiary means the person, persons or entity designated
by the Participant to receive any benefits payable under the Plan
pursuant to Section 7.8.
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2.5
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Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended. Reference to any provision of the Code or regulation
(including a proposed regulation) thereunder shall include any
successor provisions or regulations.
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2.6
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Company means Casual Male Retail Group, Inc., and,
effective as of December 18, 2007, CMRG Apparel, LLC, any
successor to all or a major portion of the Company’s assets
or business which assumes the obligations of the Company, and each
other entity that is affiliated with the Company which adopts the
Plan with the consent of the Company, provided that the Company
shall have the sole power to amend this Plan and shall be the Plan
Administrator if no other person or entity is so serving at any
time.
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Compensation means earnings required to be reported in the
Wages, Tips and Other Compensation box of Form W-2 excluding
Employee Pre-Tax Contributions and other Elective Deferrals, and
elective contributions that are excluded from income under Code
§ 125 (cafeteria plan); and reimbursements or other expense
allowances, fringe benefits (cash and non cash), moving expenses,
deferred compensation and welfare benefits.
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2.8
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Covered
Employment means
employment with the Company as a management associate designated as
eligible to participate by the Plan Administrator.
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2.9
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Effective
Date of the Plan means
November 1, 2006.
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2.10
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Election
Form means the form to be
submitted by each Participant regarding his or her specific
elections made under the Plan as set forth in
Section 3.2.
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2.11
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Eligible
Employee means a
management associate employee of the Company who has been
designated by the Company as eligible to participate in the
Plan.
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2.12
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Employer
Contribution means a
discretionary contribution made by the Company on behalf of any
Eligible Employee into an Account in accordance with
Section 4.2.
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2.13
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ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended.
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2.14
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Executive
Committee means the
committee responsible for the implementation, oversight and
administration of the Plan as selected by the Board of Directors of
the Company.
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2.15
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Investments means the investment fund options selected by
the Plan Administrator that are used to measure the return credited
to a Participant’s Account.
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2.16
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Late
Retirement Date means
retirement from the service of the Company after a Participant has
attained age 65 which becomes effective as of the first day of the
month following the date the Participant terminates service with
the Company.
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Normal
Retirement means
retirement from the service of the Company which becomes effective
as of the first day of the month following a Participant’s
attainment of age 65.
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2.18
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Participant means any Eligible Employee who participates in
the Plan in accordance with Article III.
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2.19
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Plan means the Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan and all amendments
thereto.
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2.20
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Plan
Administrator means
Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.
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2.21
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Plan
Year means the initial
short Plan Year beginning November 1, 2006 and ending
December 31, 2006 and thereafter, each 12-month period
beginning January 1 and ending the following
December 31.
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2.22
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Retirement means the voluntary termination of employment of
a Participant from the Company at Normal Retirement.
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2.23
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Trust means the rabbi trust established by the Company
and administered by the Trustee to accumulate the assets for the
benefits provided by the Plan.
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2.24
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Trustee means the trustee of the Plan’s
Trust.
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2.25
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Year of
Service means a calendar
year during which a Participant completes at least 1,000 hours of
service with the Company. Hours of service shall be calculated
under the actual hours method.
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ARTICLE
III—PARTICIPATION
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3.1
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Commencement
of Participation
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An Eligible Employee shall become a
Participant in the Plan upon designation by the Company. A
Participant shall be required to make an election as to the amount
of his or her Associate
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Deferrals, form of distribution, preferred
initial Investments, and may designate a beneficiary on the
Election Form.
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3.2
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Contents of
Election Form
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The Company provides an Election
Form to be completed by a Participant which contains the following
information:
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(1)
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Contribution
Election . The
contribution election sets forth the amount of Associate Deferrals
a Participant elects to contribute to the Plan on a voluntary
basis;
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(2)
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Distribution
Election . The
distribution election sets forth the distribution option elected by
the Participant of his or her Account upon the Participant’s
separation from service with the Company and the manner in which
payments are to be made in accordance with the provisions of
Article VII, such election to be made annually with respect to
contributions for the upcoming Plan Year;
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(3)
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Investment
Election . The investment
election sets forth the initial Investments elected by the
Participant; and
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Designation
of Beneficiary . The
designation of beneficiary sets forth the Beneficiary or
Beneficiaries elected by the Participant to receive payments under
the Plan in the event of the Participant’s death and the
distribution option selected by the Participant for the
Participant’s surviving Beneficiary or
Beneficiaries.
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In the event the employment of a
Participant under the Wraparound Plan prior to January 1, 2008
and/or under the current terms of the Plan on and after
January 1, 2008, is transferred to or from Casual Male Retail
Group, Inc. to or from CMRG Apparel, LLC, or any other wholly owned
subsidiary designated by the Company, in no event shall such a
transfer be deemed a separation from service for Plan purposes.
Accordingly, any Plan elections in effect for the Plan Year during
which such a transfer occurs shall remain in full force and effect
until the enrollment period applicable to the next succeeding Plan
Year.
ARTICLE
IV—CONTRIBUTIONS
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4.1
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Participant
Contributions
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(a)
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Within the
thirty-day (30) period prior to the beginning of each calendar
year, each eligible Participant shall elect what amount, if any, of
his or her total Compensation such Participant desires to have
credited to his or her Plan Account as Associate Deferrals for such
calendar year.
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Notwithstanding
the preceding paragraph, in the calendar year during which an
Eligible Employee is first eligible to participate hereunder, he or
she may make such election within the 30-day period during which he
or she first became eligible to participate hereunder, provided
such election shall apply only to Compensation earned with respect
to services rendered subsequent to the date such election is made.
Such election shall apply with respect to Compensation earned for
the performance of services during the remainder of the calendar
year in which such election is made.
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In the case of
any performance-based Compensation based on services performed over
a period of at least 12 months, an election to defer such
Compensation may be made no later than 6 months before the end of
such period. For purposes of this paragraph, the term
“performance-based Compensation” refers to Compensation
where (i) the payment of the Compensation or the amount of the
Compensation is contingent on the satisfaction of organizational or
individual performance criteria, and (ii) the performance
criteria are not substantially certain to be met at the time a
deferral election is permitted.
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Once an
Associate Deferral election is made pursuant to the provisions of
this Section 4.1 with respect to Compensation for services
rendered in a given Plan Year, such Associate Deferral election
shall be irrevocable and the Participant shall not increase or
decrease such election for the remainder of the calendar year to
which such election relates: provided that a Participant may revoke
such election with respect to amounts which he or she has not yet
earned as of the date of revocation in connection with the
occurrence of an approved unforeseeable emergency with respect to
which a Participant has requested accelerated distribution of his
Plan interests pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof. If a
Participant revokes an election pursuant to this paragraph, such
Participant may not again elect to participate in the Plan as of a
date prior to the first day of the calendar year next following the
date he or she ceased to participate in the Plan as a result of
such revocation.
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(e)
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Effective prior
to January 1, 2008, under the terms of the Wraparound Plan, by
January 31 of the year following the end of the Plan Year
during which a Participant made Associate Deferrals, the Company
performed or caused to be performed, nondiscrimination testing of
the Associated Plan to determine the maximum amount that each
Participant in the Wraparound Plan could contribute to the
Associated Plan with respect to the immediately preceding Plan
Year. The Associate Deferrals not in excess of such maximum where
then transferred to the Associated Plan with the balance of the
Associate Deferrals in excess of such maximum remaining to the
credit of the Participant under this Plan.
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(f)
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Effective
January 1, 2008, as a result of the adoption of “safe
harbor 401(k) provisions” under the Associated Plan in
accordance with the terms of Code Sections 401(k)(12) and
401(m)(11), the provisions of paragraph (e) of this
Section 4.1 were no longer necessary and were eliminated. Any
amounts held under the terms of the Plan prior to January 1,
2008 shall continue to be held for the benefit of Participants who
participated in the
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Wraparound Plan and shall
continue to be governed by the amended and restated provisions
outlined herein.
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4.2
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Employer
Contributions
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(a)
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The Company
shall add Matching Credits to each Participant’s Account
based on the amount of Associate Deferrals for the Plan Year and
shall be determined annually for each Plan Year by the Company, in
its sole and absolute discretion.
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(b)
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Matching
Credits shall be limited to no more than fifty percent
(50%) of a Participant’s Associate Deferrals for a Plan
Year which are not in excess of six percent (6%) of the
Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year.
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In order to be
eligible to receive an allocation of Matching Credits, a
Participant must be actively employed by the Company as of the last
day of the Plan Year for which the Matching Credit is
made.
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Notwithstanding
the foregoing, effective prior to January 1, 2008, by
January 31 of the year following the Plan Year for which
Matching Credits were made to the Wraparound Plan, the Company
performed, or caused to be performed, nondiscrimination testing of
the Associated Plan to determine the maximum amount of Matching
Credits eligible for transfer from the Wraparound Plan to the
Associated Plan for the immediately preceding Plan Year. Matching
Credits not exceeding such maximum were then transferred to the
Associated Plan with the balance in excess of such maximum retained
under the Wraparound Plan.
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Effective
January 1, 2008, as a result of the adoption of “safe
harbor 401(k) provisions” under the Associated Plan in
accordance with the terms of Code Sections 401(k)(12) and
401(m)(11), the provisions of paragraph (d) of this
Section 4.1 were no longer necessary and were eliminated. Any
amounts held under the terms of the Plan prior to January 1,
2008 shall continue to be held for the benefit of Participants who
participated in the Wraparound Plan and shall continue to be
governed by the amended and restated provisions outlined
herein.
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Notwithstanding
the preceding paragraphs of this Section 4.2, the Company
retains the sole discretion make additional Supplemental Credits
hereunder, without regard to whether a Participant makes Associate
Deferrals, as well as the sole discretion to select the Eligible
Employees who may receive an Employer Contribution in a particular
form and amount determined by the Company for a Plan Year. The
amount of any such Employer Contribution will be determined by the
Company in accordance with such criteria as it shall adopt from
time to time and shall be made in proportion to each
Participant’s Compensation. Except in the event of retirement
at or after normal retirement age, disability or death, a
Participant shall be required to be actively employed on the last
day of the Plan Year for which the Supplemental Credit is made in
order to be eligible for an allocation.
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Any Employer
Contribution (including Matching Credits and Supplemental Credits,
if any) under this Section 4.2 shall be credited to
Participant Accounts in accordance with the Plan. Each Employer
Contribution and any accrued earnings (net of all gains and losses)
shall be distributed in a manner consistent with the elections last
made by the Participant on file with the Plan Administrator in
accordance with the provisions of Article VII.
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ARTICLE
V—ACCOUNTS
The Plan Administrator shall
establish an Account for each Participant to reflect Participant
Contributions and
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