Exhibit 10.15 to 2008 10-K
CONVERGYS
CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(As amended and restated effective
as of January 1, 2005)
CONVERGYS
CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(As amended and restated effective
as of January 1, 2005)
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1.
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Introduction to Plan
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1.1 Name and Sponsor of
Plan . The name of
this Plan is the Convergys Corporation Executive Deferred
Compensation Plan, and its sponsor is Convergys.
1.2 Purpose of Plan
. The purpose of the Plan
is to provide deferred compensation for a select group of
management and highly compensated employees of the Company (within
the meaning of title I of ERISA).
1.3 Effective Amendment Date
of Plan and Effect of Plan On Prior Deferrals .
(a) Deferred Compensation
Subject To Following Terms of This Document .
In order to conform the Plan to the
requirements of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, this
document amends and restates the Plan effective as of the Effective
Amendment Date (January 1, 2005). The provisions of sections 2
through 10 hereof apply to but only to:
(1) amounts that are attributable to
compensation that is deferred under section 4 hereof on or after
the Effective Amendment Date;
(2) amounts that are attributable to
compensation that was deferred under the provisions of the Prior
Plan prior to the Effective Amendment Date but was not earned and
vested (within the meaning of Section 1.409A-6(a)(2) of the
Treasury Regulations) prior to the Effective Amendment Date;
and
(3) amounts that are attributable to
compensation that was deferred under the provisions of the Prior
Plan prior to the Effective Amendment Date and was earned and
vested (within the meaning of Section 1.409A-6(a)(2) of the
Treasury Regulations) prior to the Effective Amendment Date, but
only if the provisions of the Prior Plan that apply to any such
compensation are materially modified (within the meaning of
Section 1.409A-6(a)(4) of the Treasury Regulations). This
document does not by itself materially modify such
provisions.
(b) Effective Date of
Following Terms of This Document When Applied To Pre-Effective
Amendment Date Deferred Compensation . Any amounts described in paragraph (a)(2) and
(3) of this subsection 1.3 shall, beginning as of the
Effective Amendment Date, be subject to the terms of sections 2
through 10 hereof as if this document had been in effect prior to
the Effective Amendment Date.
(c) Incorporation of Terms of
Prior Plan . Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Plan, except as provided in paragraph (a)(2) and (3) of this
subsection 1.3, all rules (including rules as to assumed
investments and distributions) that relate to amounts deferred
under the Prior Plan, adjusted by assumed earnings and losses
thereon as determined under the provisions of the Prior Plan, shall
be governed solely by the terms of the Prior Plan (which terms are
incorporated herein by reference).
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2.
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General
Definitions . For
all purposes of the Plan, the following terms shall have the
meanings hereinafter set forth, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise.
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2.1 “Account” means,
with respect to any Participant, the bookkeeping account maintained
for the Participant under the terms of this Plan and to which
amounts are credited or otherwise allocated under section 5 hereof
in order to help determine the Participant’s benefits under
the Plan.
2.2 “Annual Cash Incentive
Award” means, with respect to any Key Employee, an annual
incentive award or bonus payable in cash to the Key Employee by the
Company.
2.3 “Basic Salary”
means, with respect to any Key Employee, the basic salary, pay in
lieu of paid time off, short term disability pay, sales incentive
payments and bonuses, hiring bonuses, and retention bonuses payable
to the Key Employee by the Company (but not including spot bonuses,
patent bonuses, referral bonuses, severance pay, relocation pay,
imputed income, long term incentive payments, and other special
remuneration not treated by the Company as part of the Key
Employee’s basic rate of pay).
2.4 “Beneficiary” means,
with respect to any Participant, the person or entity designated by
the Participant, on forms furnished and in the manner prescribed by
the Committee, to receive any benefit payable under the Plan after
the Participant’s death. If a Participant fails to designate
a beneficiary or if, for any reason, such designation is not
effective, his or her “Beneficiary” shall be deemed to
be his or her surviving spouse or, if none, his or her
estate.
2.5 “Board” means the
Board of Directors of Convergys.
2.6 “Change in Control”
means the occurrence of any of the events described in paragraphs
(a), (b), and (c) of this subsection 2.6. All of such events
shall be determined under and, even if not so indicated in the
following paragraphs of this subsection 2.6, shall be subject to
all of the terms of Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) of the Treasury
Regulations.
(a) A change in the ownership of
Convergys (within the meaning of Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v) of
the Treasury Regulations). In very general terms,
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(v) of the Treasury Regulations provides
that a change in the ownership of Convergys occurs when a person or
more than one person acting as a group acquires outstanding voting
securities of Convergys that, together with stock held by such
person or group, constitutes more than 50 percent of the total fair
market value or total voting power of the stock of
Convergys.
(b) A change in the effective
control of Convergys (within the meaning of
Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vi) of the Treasury Regulations). In
very general terms, Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vi) of the Treasury
Regulations provides that a change in the effective control of
Convergys occurs either:
(1) when a person or more than one
person acting as a group acquires (or has acquired during the
twelve-month period ending on the date of the most recent
acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of
Convergys possessing 30% or more of the total voting power of the
stock of Convergys; or
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(2) when a majority of members of
the Board is replaced during any twelve-month period by directors
whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the
members of the Board prior to the date of the appointment or
election.
(c) A change in the ownership of a
substantial portion of the assets of Convergys (within the meaning
of Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vii) of the Treasury Regulations).
In very general terms, Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vii) of the
Treasury Regulations provides that a change in the ownership of a
substantial portion of the assets of Convergys occurs when a person
or more than one person acting as a group acquires (or has acquired
during the twelve-month period ending on the date of the most
recent acquisition by such person or persons) assets from Convergys
that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than 40%
of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of
Convergys immediately prior to such acquisition or
acquisitions.
2.7 “Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it exists as of the Effective
Amendment Date and as it may thereafter be amended. A reference to
a specific section of the Code shall be deemed to be a reference
both (i) to the provisions of such section as it exists as of
the Effective Amendment Date and as it is subsequently amended,
renumbered, or superseded (by future legislation) and (ii) to
the provisions of any section of the Treasury Regulations that is
issued under such section.
2.8 “Committee” means
the Compensation and Benefits Committee of the Board.
2.9 “Company” means all
of the Employers considered collectively.
2.10 “Convergys” means
Convergys Corporation (and, except for purposes of determining
whether a Change in Control has occurred, any legal successor to
Convergys Corporation that results from a merger or similar
transaction).
2.11 “Date of
Separation” means, with respect to any Participant, the date
on which the Participant separates from service with the
Company.
2.12 “Effective Amendment
Date” means January 1, 2005.
2.13 “Employee” means
any person who is a common law employee of the Company (
i.e. , a person whose work procedures are subject to control
by the Company) and is treated as an employee on an employee
payroll of the Company.
2.14 “Employer” means
each of: (i) Convergys; and (ii) each other corporation
or other organization that is deemed to be a single employer with
Convergys under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (
i.e. , as part of a controlled group of corporations that
includes Convergys or under common control with
Convergys).
2.15 “ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as it exists as of
the Effective Amendment Date and as it may thereafter be amended. A
reference to a specific section of ERISA shall be deemed to be a
reference both (i) to the provisions of such section as it
exists as of the Effective Amendment Date and as it is subsequently
amended, renumbered, or superseded (by future legislation) and
(ii) to the provisions of any government regulation that is
issued under such section as of the Effective Amendment Date or as
of a later date.
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2.16 “Key Employee”
means, as of any date, a person who on such date is an Employee,
who has previously been designated as a participant in the Plan by
action of the Board or the Committee (adopted either prior to the
Effective Amendment Date or on or after such date) in accordance
with the provisions of section 3 below, and who has not previously
been removed as a participant in the Plan by action of the Board or
the Committee adopted in accordance with the provisions of section
3 below.
2.17 “LTIP” means the
Convergys Corporation 1998 Long Term Incentive Plan, as such plan
exists as of the Effective Amendment Date and as it may thereafter
be amended.
2.18 “Maximum 401(m)
Match” means, with respect to any Key Employee and as of any
date, the maximum Company matching contribution which would have
been made for the Key Employee under the RSP by reason of his or
her elective contributions made to the RSP as of such date if the
Key Employee had elected to contribute to the RSP on a pre-tax
basis 5% of the amount that otherwise would be his or her Total
Compensation for such date (or, if less, the maximum amount that he
or she could contribute to the RSP as of such date under the
Code’s rules that apply to the RSP and the terms of the
RSP).
2.19 “Participant” means
a person who as a Key Employee elects or elected to defer any
amounts under this Plan. Such person shall remain a Participant
until the amounts allocated to his or her Account have been fully
paid and/or forfeited, as the case may be.
2.20 “Performance-Based
Award” means, with respect to a Key Employee, an award
granted to the Key Employee by the Company (regardless of whether
or not any such award is otherwise payable in cash or Shares) that
constitutes Performance-Based Compensation, provided that the Key
Employee performs services for the Company continuously from a date
no later than the date upon which the performance criteria
applicable to such award are established through the date upon
which the Key Employee makes an initial deferral election with
respect to any part of such award under subsection 4.1(b) hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall stock option or
stock appreciation right awards be considered Performance-Based
Awards under this Plan.
2.21 “Performance-Based
Compensation” means, with respect to any Key Employee, any
compensation provided by an Employer to the Key Employee
(i) where the amount of, or entitlement to, the compensation
is contingent on the satisfaction of preestablished organizational
or individual performance criteria relating to a performance period
of at least twelve months in which the Key Employee performs
services for the Company and (ii) which constitutes
“performance-based compensation” within the meaning of,
and in accordance with the rules of, Section 1.409A-1(e) of
the Treasury Regulations.
2.22 “Plan” means the
Convergys Corporation Executive Deferred Compensation Plan. This
document amends and restates the Plan effective as of the Effective
Amendment Date to the extent indicated by subsection 1.3
hereof.
2.23 “Prior Plan” means
the versions of the Plan that were in effect before the Effective
Amendment Date.
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2.24 “Restricted Stock
Award” means, with respect to any Key Employee, an award
granted to the Key Employee under the LTIP and under which Shares
are issued to the Key Employee by Convergys pursuant to an
agreement that restricts the right of the Key Employee to dispose
of such shares (and that makes such shares forfeitable) until and
unless certain conditions are met.
2.25 “Restricted Stock Unit
Award” means, with respect to any Key Employee, an award
granted to the Key Employee under the LTIP and under which the Key
Employee has the right to receive a number of Shares in the future
if and when certain conditions are met.
2.26 “RSP” means the
Convergys Corporation Retirement and Savings Plan, as such plan
exists as of the Effective Amendment Date and as it may thereafter
be amended. The RSP is a defined contribution plan that is
sponsored by Convergys and that is intended to qualify as a
tax-favored plan under Section 401(a) of the Code.
2.27 “Shares” means
common shares of Convergys.
2.28 “Tax Year” means,
with respect to any Key Employee, the Key Employee’s taxable
year for federal income tax purposes. Unless the Company or the
Committee is notified otherwise by the Key Employee, the Company
and the Committee may assume for purposes of this Plan that a Key
Employee’s Tax Year is a calendar year.
2.29 “Total
Compensation” means, with respect to any Key Employee and as
of any date, the total amount of Basic Salary and Annual Cash
Incentive Awards paid to the Key Employee on such date (or which
would have been paid to the Key Employee on such date if he or she
had not deferred the receipt of any portion of such amount under a
401(k) plan or a cafeteria plan), and including, for all purposes
of the Plan except for purposes of determining the Key
Employee’s Maximum 401(m) Match as of such date, any amount
of such Basic Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Awards the receipt
of which is deferred on such date under this Plan.
2.30 “Treasury
Regulations” means all final regulations issued by the U.S.
Department of the Treasury under the Code, as such regulations
exist as of the date on which this document is executed on its
final page by an officer or representative of Convergys and as they
are subsequently amended, renumbered, or superseded. A reference to
a specific section or paragraph of the Treasury Regulations shall
be deemed to be a reference to the provisions of such section or
paragraph as it exists as of the date on which this document is
executed on its final page by an officer or representative of
Convergys and as it is subsequently amended, renumbered, or
superseded.
3.1 Designation of Key
Employees Eligible To Participate in Plan .
Either the Board or the Committee,
by action taken under its policies and procedures, may at any time
on or after the Effective Amendment Date designate any Employee, or
each Employee in a certain class of Employees (including but not
limited to a class of Employees based on their annual basic
compensation rates), who it determines is (or may at any time prior
to the Effective Amendment Date have designated any Employee, or
each Employee in a certain class of Employees, who it determined
was) (i) key to the success of the Company and (ii) part
of a select group of management or highly compensated employees
(within the meaning of Sections 201, 301, and
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401 of ERISA), as a participant in the Plan. For
purposes of the Plan, such a designation shall be effective on the
date such action is or was taken by the Board or the Committee (as
the case may be) or such later date that is or was set by the Board
or the Committee in such action. Any Employee who is or was
designated as a key employee for purposes of the Plan is referred
to in the Plan as a Key Employee.
3.2 Removal of Key Employees
as Participants in Plan . In addition, either the Board or the Committee,
by action taken under its policies and procedures, may at any time
on or after the Effective Amendment Date designate that any Key
Employee shall no longer be considered a Key Employee under the
Plan and shall no longer participate in the Plan (other than to the
extent he or she may participate in the Plan for the purpose of
receiving benefits he or she accrued while he or she was designated
as a Key Employee under the Plan) should it determine that such
Employee (i) is no longer key to the success of the Company or
(ii) is no longer part of a select group of management or
highly compensated employees (within the meaning of Sections 201,
301, and 401 of ERISA).
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4.
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Deferral
Elections and Company Match .
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4.1 General Rules for Election
of Deferrals .
(a) Deferral Elections for
Non-Performance-Based Compensation .
(1) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may elect for any Tax Year (for purposes
of this subparagraph (1), the “subject Tax Year”), by
completing a deferral form or forms prescribed by the Committee and
filing such form or forms with the Committee by the filing deadline
set forth in such form or forms and not in any event later than the
last day of the immediately preceding Tax Year (or, if the subject
Tax Year is the Tax Year in which he or she first becomes a Key
Employee, not in any event later than 30 days after the date on
which he or she or she first becomes a Key Employee), to defer the
receipt of any whole percent or whole dollar amount (but not a
percent or amount that is in excess of 75%, or such larger
percentage as may be prescribed by the Committee) of his or her
Basic Salary that is earned by him or her in the subject Tax Year
(and also, if the subject Tax Year is the Tax Year in which he or
she first becomes a Key Employee, that is earned by him or her
after his or her deferral election is filed with the
Committee).
(2) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may elect for any Tax Year (for purposes
of this subparagraph (2), the “subject Tax Year”), by
completing a deferral form or forms prescribed by the Committee and
filing such form or forms with the Committee by the filing deadline
set forth in such form or forms and not in any event later than the
last day of the immediately preceding Tax Year, to defer the
receipt of any whole percent (up to 100%) or any whole dollar
amount (not less than $1,000) of his or her Annual Cash Incentive
Award, and/or any other award granted under the LTIP that is
payable in cash, if such award both is not Performance-Based
Compensation and is earned by him or her in the subject Tax
Year.
(3) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may elect for any Tax Year (for purposes
of this subparagraph (3), the “subject Tax Year”) to
defer the receipt of any whole
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number of Shares (not less than
1,000 Shares) subject to a Restricted Stock Award and/or a
Restricted Stock Unit Award, to the extent that any such award both
is not Performance Based Compensation and is earned by him or her
in the subject Tax Year, by completing a deferral form or forms
prescribed by the Committee and filing such form or forms with the
Committee by the filing deadline set forth in such form or forms
and not in any event later than the last day of the immediately
preceding Tax Year (or not in any event later than 30 days after
the date on which such award is granted if (i) under the terms
of such award the award is subject to a forfeiture condition
requiring the Participant’s continued services for a period
of at least 12 months from the date the award is granted and
(ii) the election is made at least 12 months in advance of the
earliest date at which the forfeiture condition could
lapse).
(4) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may change, or terminate and thereby
void, any deferral election that he or she has made for a Tax Year
under the provisions of subparagraph (1), (2), or (3) of this
paragraph (a), by completing an appropriate form and filing such
form with the Committee, up to but not after the latest day by
which he or she could still make a deferral election for such Tax
Year under the provisions of subparagraph (1), (2), or (3) of
this paragraph (a) (and provided that, if such Tax Year is the
Tax Year in which he or she first becomes a Key Employee, prior to
his or her initial deferral election being used to defer the
receipt of any compensation pursuant to the provisions of this
paragraph (a)).
(5) When a Key Employee’s
award is a Restricted Stock Award, an election made by the Key
Employee to surrender to Convergys any of the restricted Shares
subject to such award (on a deferral form that is filed with the
Committee on a timely basis in accordance with the provisions of
subparagraphs (3) and (4) of this paragraph(a)) shall be
deemed to be an election to defer the receipt of the part of the
award reflected by such surrendered restricted Shares for all
purposes of paragraph (a) and the other provisions of the
Plan.
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions
of subparagraphs (3) and (5) of this paragraph
(a) or any other provision of the Plan, a Key Employee may not
elect to defer the receipt of any part of a Restricted Stock Award
(pursuant to the provisions of subparagraphs (3) and
(5) of this paragraph (a) or otherwise) when such award
is granted to the Key Employee after December 31,
2006.
(b) Deferral Elections for
Performance-Based Awards .
(1) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may elect to defer the receipt of any
part of an Annual Cash Incentive Award, a Restricted Stock Unit
Award, and/or any other award granted under the LTIP, to the extent
that any such award is a Performance-Based Award, by completing a
deferral form prescribed by the Committee and filing such form with
the Committee while the Key Employee is still a Key Employee and by
the filing deadline set forth in such form and in any event at
least six months before the end of the performance period that
relates to the portion of such award that is being deferred,
provided that in no event may such election be made after the
amount of compensation attributable to such award has become both
substantially certain to be paid and readily
ascertainable.
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(2) If permitted by the Committee
and subject to such administrative rules as the Committee may
prescribe, a Key Employee may terminate and thereby void any
deferral election that he or she has made with respect to a
Performance-Based Award under the provisions of subparagraph
(1) of this paragraph (b), by completing an appropriate form
and filing such form with the Committee, up to but not after the
latest day by which he or she could still make a deferral election
with respect to such Performance-Based Award under the provisions
of subparagraph (1) of this paragraph (b).
(c) Conditions on Validity of
Deferral Election . Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan,
any election that a Key Employee makes under the foregoing
provisions of this subsection 4.1 to defer the receipt of any part
of an award (whether such award is Performance-Based Compensation
or not) shall be deemed to be void and of no effect in the event
and when the Key Employee forfeits any right to receive such award
part ( e.g. , if and when the Participant fails to satisfy
the conditions necessary to ever become entitled to receive such
award part or if and when any performance criteria applicable to
such award part are not satisfied) and in such case no amounts
attributable to such award part shall be credited to the Account of
the Key Employee under the Plan.
(d) Special Pre-March 15,
2005 Deferral Election Right . Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan
and pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of Q&A-21 of
Internal Revenue Service Notice 2005-1, the requirements of
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection 4.1 relating to
the timing of deferral elections shall not be applicable to any
election that is made by a Key Employee on or before March 15,
2005 to defer the receipt of any compensation that both is subject
to the terms of this Plan under the provisions of paragraphs
(a) and (b) of this subsection 4.1 and relates to
services performed by the Key Employee on or before
December 31, 2005, provided that (i) the compensation to
which the deferral election relates has not or had not been paid or
become payable by the time of the election and (ii) the
election to defer is or was made in accordance with the terms of
the Plan or the Prior Plan that at the time of the election were
then in effect.
4.2 Company Match
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(a) Right To Company Match
. As of each day (for
purposes of this subsection 4.2, a “deferral date”) on
which Basic Salary, Annual Cash Incentive Award, Restricted Stock
Award, or Restricted Stock Unit Award deferrals are credited under
subsection 5.1 hereof to the Account of a Key Employee, there shall
also be credited, to such Account under subsection 5.1(d) hereof,
an amount computed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph
(b), (c), or (d) of this subsection 4.2 (which amount shall be
referred to in the Plan as a “Company match”).
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any of the following paragraphs of
this subsection 4.2, no Company match shall be made under the
provisions of paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection 4.2
for any Key Employee who was hired by the Company on or after
January 1, 2002 with respect to any deferral date that occurs
before the Key Employee has completed one year of eligibility
service (as such term is defined in the RSP).
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(b) Amount of Company Match
for Basic Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Award Deferrals When
Deferral Date Occurs On or After April 1, 2008
. The Company match to be
credited to a Key Employee’s Account by reason of any Basic
Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Award deferrals made with respect
to any deferral date that occurs on or after April 1, 2008
shall be the lesser of:
(1) the result obtained (not less
than zero) by subtracting the Key Employee’s Maximum 401(m)
Match for such deferral date from 5% of the Key Employee’s
Total Compensation for such deferral date; or
(2) 100% of the first 5% of the
amount of the Basic Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Award deferred
by the Key Employee pursuant to the Plan as of such deferral
date.
(c) Amount of Company Match
for Basic Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Award Deferrals When
Deferral Date Occurs Prior to April 1, 2008 .
The Company match to be credited to
a Key Employee’s Account by reason of any Basic Salary and
Annual Cash Incentive Award deferrals made with respect to any
deferral date that occurs prior to April 1, 2008 shall be the
lesser of:
(1) the result obtained (not less
than zero) by subtracting the Key Employee’s Maximum 401(m)
Match for such deferral date from 4% of the Key Employee’s
Total Compensation for such deferral date; or
(2) the sum of (i) 100% of the
first 3% of the amount of the Basic Salary and Annual Cash
Incentive Award deferred by the Key Employee pursuant to the Plan
as of such deferral date and (ii) 50% of the next 2% of the
amount of the Basic Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Award deferred
by the Key Employee pursuant to the Plan as of such deferral
date.
(d) Amount of Company Match
for Restricted Stock Award and Restricted Stock Unit Award
Deferrals . The
Company match to be credited to a Key Employee’s Account by
reason of any Restricted Stock Award and Restricted Stock Unit
Award deferrals made with respect to any deferral date shall be an
amount equal to 4% of the values of the Restricted Stock Award and
Restricted Stock Unit Award deferred by the Key Employee pursuant
to the Plan as of such deferral date.
(e) Special Rules As to Basic
Salary and Annual Cash Incentive Awards Used To Determine Company
Match . Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan,
for purposes of determining the Company match for any deferral date
under the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
subsection 4.2, a Key Employee’s Basic Salary and Annual Cash
Incentive Award as of such date shall be deemed not to include any
award payable under the LTIP or any other long term incentive plan
or any type of compensation which is excluded from being treated as
“covered compensation” under the terms of the RSP
(other than compensation that is excluded from being treated as
“covered compensation” under the RSP merely because it
exceeds an applicable dollar limit imposed under the
RSP).
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5.
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Maintenance and Valuation of
Accounts .
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5.1 Accounts .
An Account shall be established for
each Participant in accordance with the following paragraphs of
this subsection 5.1 to reflect the amounts of (i) his or her
Basic Salary, Annual Cash Incentive Awards, other awards (including
any LTIP awards), and Company matches that are to be credited to
such Account under the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
and/or (d) of this subsection 5.1 and (ii) the assumed
investment of such amounts. The Committee shall create subaccounts
under any Participant’s Account to the extent
needed
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administratively ( e.g. , to account for
different distribution rules that apply to different portions of
the Participant’s Account). For purposes of this Plan, the
net investment returns and losses of the assumed investment of any
credits made to a Participant’s Account, or any Company match
that relates to any deferred Basic Salary or award credits made to
the Participant’s Account, shall be deemed to be
“attributable” to the portion of such Account that
reflects such credits.
(a) Crediting To Account of
Basic Salary or Non-Performance-Based Award .
Subject to such administrative rules
as the Committee may prescribe, any amount of Basic Salary or any
part of an award that is not a Performance-Based Award deferred by
a Participant under the Plan pursuant to the provisions of
subsection 4.1(a) hereof shall be credited to the Account of the
Participant as of the day on which such deferred amount or part
would otherwise have been paid to the Participant; except that any
part of a Restricted Stock Award deferred by a Participant under
the Plan pursuant to the provisions of subsection 4.1(a) hereof
shall be credited to the Account of the Participant as of the day
on which the restricted Shares that are reflected by such part are
surrendered to Convergys.
(b) Crediting To Account of
Performance-Based Award . Subject to such rules as the Committee may
prescribe, any part of a Performance-Based Award deferred by a
Participant under the Plan under the provisions of subsection
4.1(b) hereof shall be credited to the Account of the Participant
as of the latest of (i) the day on which the performance
period applicable to such award part ends, (ii) the first day
on which the Participant has no substantial risk of forfeiture
(within the meaning of Section 1.409A-1(d) of the Treasury
Regulations) with respect to such Performance-Based Award part and
the amount of such part has become readily ascertainable, or
(iii) the first day on which any portion of such
Performance-Based Award part would otherwise (but for the deferral
election) have been paid to the Participant or his or her
Beneficiary.
(c) Determination of Share
Value or Shares Credited To Account . When any part of an award that is deferred by a
Participant under the Plan and credited to the Account of the
Participant is otherwise payable in Shares (but is not a Restricted
Stock Award or a Restricted Stock Unit Award), the amount credited
to the Account as of the day determined under the provisions of
paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection 5.1 shall equal
the fair market value (determined as of such day) of the number of
Shares that would otherwise be paid to the Participant (or that
would otherwise have their restrictions lapse under such award
part). In contrast, when any part of a Restricted Stock Award or a
Restricted Stock Unit Award is deferred by a Participant under the
Plan and credited to the Account of the Participant, the credit to
the Account (that is made as of the day determined under the
provisions of paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection
5.1) shall be denominated in Shares and equal the number of Shares
that would otherwise be paid to the Participant (or that would
otherwise have their restrictions lapse under such award
part).
(d) Crediting To Account of
Company Match . Subject to such rules as the Committee may
prescribe, any amount of a Company match applicable to a
Participant under the provisions of subsection 4.2 hereof shall be
credited to the Account of the Participant as of the date on which
the deferred amount or part of the Participant’s Basic Salary
or award to which the Company match relates would otherwise have
been paid to the Participant (or, to the extent that the deferred
award part to which the Company match relates is part of a
Restricted Stock Award, the Company match amount shall be credited
to the Account of the Participant as of the date the Shares
reflected by such deferred part are surrendered to
Convergys).
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(e) Assumed Investment of
Account . Any amounts
credited to the Account of a Participant under paragraphs (a), (b),
(c), and/or (d) of this subsection 5.1 shall be assumed to
have been invested in the investments designated or deemed to be
designated by the Participant on a form provided by and filed with
the Committee, and adjusted by reason of such assumed investments,
in accordance with the provisions of subsection 5.2
hereof.
5.2 Assumed Investments
. The Committee shall
designate in notices or other documents provided to Participants a
limited number of “assumed investments” for purposes of
the Plan. Such assumed investments will generally be (but will not
be required to be) limited to mutual funds or similar types of
investments but may and generally will include an assumed
investment in Shares. Some or all of the assumed investments
designated for the Plan may be changed by the Committee to other
assumed investments, effective as of any date, in which case prior
written notice of such change shall be provided by the Committee to
all Participants.
(a) General Rules on
Participant Designations of Assumed Investments .
The credits to any
Participant’s Account made in accordance with subsection 5.1
hereof shall be assumed to have been invested among such assumed
investments, and in such proportions, as is elected in a writing
filed by the Participant with the Committee, except that any
investment direction of the Participant is subject to such
reasonable administrative rules concerning such assumed investment
directions as are adopted or used by the Committee.
(b) Initial Assumed Investment
Election . The
Participant must elect on or before the first date a credit is made
to the Account established for him or her under the provisions of
subsection 5.1 hereof the assumed investments in which his or her
Account credits are to be initially assumed to be invested and the
proportions of each credit initially assumed to be invested in each
designated assumed investment. Otherwise, the Participant shall be
deemed to have elected that his or her Account credits will not be
assumed to be invested in any investment until he or she makes an
investment election under the provisions of this subsection 5.2
(or, if the Committee in its discretion so decides, the Participant
shall be deemed to have elected that his or her Account credits
will be assumed to be initially invested in an investment or
investments chosen by the Committee).
(c) Change in Assumed
Investment Election . Further, the Participant may request a change
in the assumed investments of his or her Account and the
proportions of his or her new Account credits assumed to be
invested in each designated investment to other assumed investments
and/or proportions effective as of any January 1, or as of any
other date as the Committee may provide in its discretion, upon
written notice to the Committee prior to such date (or such earlier
date as may be established by the Committee).
(d) Adjustment of Account for
Assumed Investment Returns and Losses . The amounts credited to any Participant’s
Account shall be adjusted as of each December 31, and as of
such other dates as the Committee may provide in its discretion, to
reflect the assumed investment returns or losses (since the last
prior adjustment in the Account) that are attributable to the
assumed investments in which his or her Account is deemed to be
invested.
(e) Special Assumed Investment
Rule for Deferred Restricted Stock Award and Restricted Stock Unit
Award Credits . Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan,
when any amounts credited to a Participant’s Account reflect
any deferred part of a
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Restricted Stock Award or a
Restricted Stock Unit Award, and any Company match attributable to
such deferred award parts, the Participant shall be deemed to have
designated such credits to be assumed to be invested solely in
Shares from the day such amounts are credited to the
Account.
5.3 Nonvested Company Match
Amounts .
(a) Vesting Conditions on
Company Match . In
its discretion, the Committee may, by notice to a Participant on or
prior to the date on which a Company match is credited to the
Account of the Participant, condition the right to receive payments
with respect to all or a portion of the part of such Account that
reflects such Company match on the Participant’s completing a
minimum period of service with the Company. If the Committee does
so, then, until the Participant satisfies such condition, the
amounts allocated to the part of such Account that is subject to
such condition shall be considered to be
“nonvested.”
(b) Effect of Nonvested Status
of Company Match . Any portion of the Account of a Participant that
is at any time nonvested under the provisions of paragraph
(a) of this subsection 5.3 shall not in any event, even when
the provisions of section 6 hereof would otherwise permit a
distribution of such Account portion at such time and
notwithstanding any provision of section 6 hereof which may be read
to the contrary, be able to be distributed to the Participant or
any other party claiming through the Participant until such Account
portion is no longer nonvested (and any distribution of such
Account portion otherwise called for under section 6 hereof shall
to the extent necessary be deferred until, and shall be made as of,
the date such portion is no longer nonvested).
(1) Consistent with the rule set
forth in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (b) and
notwithstanding any other provision of section 6 hereof, any
reference in any provision of section 6 hereof to the amounts
allocated to a portion of the Account of a Participant at any time
shall be deemed not to include the amounts allocated to any part of
such Account portion that is then nonvested and such part shall be
treated as if it were a separate class of Account until it is no
longer nonvested.
(2) Further, if a Participant
separates from service with the Company (other than by reason of
his or her death) when any portion of the Account established for
him or her is nonvested, he or she shall never be entitled to
receive the amounts allocated to such Account portion and such
amounts shall be forfeited on his or her Date of
Separation.
5.4 Valuation
.
(a) Valuation of Account
. The balance of the
Account of a Participant shall be determined periodically (under
procedures adopted by the Committee) to reflect all amounts
credited to the Account under the