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FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (Amended and Restated as of December 31, 2008)

Executive Compensation Plan Agreement

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Title: FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (Amended and Restated as of December 31, 2008)
Date: 2/26/2009
Industry: Auto and Truck Manufacturers     Sector: Consumer Cyclical

FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN (Amended and Restated as of December 31, 2008), Parties: ford motor company
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Exhibit 10-M

 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

(Amended and Restated as of December 31, 2008)

 

1. Purpose. This Plan, which shall be known as the “Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan” and is hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”, is intended to provide for the deferment of payment of (i) awards of incentive compensation under the Ford Motor Company Annual Incentive Compensation Plan and similar plans, (ii) base salary, and (iii) new hire signing bonus.

 

2. Definitions. As used in the Plan, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively:

 

(a) The term “AIC Plan” shall mean the Ford Motor Company Annual Incentive Compensation Pan, as amended.

 

(b) The term “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

(c) The term “Committee” shall mean, unless the context otherwise requires, the following as they from time to time may be constituted:

 

(i) The Compensation Committee with respect to all matters affecting any Section 16 Person.

 

(ii) The Deferred Compensation Committee with respect to all matters affecting employees other than Section 16 Persons.

 

(d) The term “Company” means Ford Motor Company and, when used in the Plan with reference to employment, shall include subsidiaries of the Company.

 

(e) The term “Compensation Committee” shall mean the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

(f) The term “Deferred Compensation” shall mean compensation deferred pursuant to paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of Section 4 hereto, and any interest equivalents, dividend equivalents or other earnings or return on such amounts determined in accordance with the Plan.

 

(g) The term “Deferred Compensation Account” with respect to a participant shall mean the book entry account established by the Company for such participant with respect to his or her Deferred Compensation.

 

(h) The term “Deferred Compensation Committee” shall mean the committee comprised of the Group Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel (or, in the event of a change in title, their functional equivalent), or such other persons as may be designated members of such Committee by the Compensation Committee.

 

(i) The term “employee” shall mean any person who is regularly employed by the Company or a subsidiary at a salary (as distinguished from a pension, retirement allowance, severance pay, retainer, commission, fee under a contract or other arrangement, or hourly, piecework or other wage) and is enrolled on the active employment rolls of the Company or a subsidiary, including, but without limitation, any employee who also is an officer or director of the Company or a subsidiary.

 

(j) The term “Ford Stock” shall mean Ford Common Stock.

 

(k) The term “Ford Stock Unit” shall mean a unit having a value based upon Ford Stock.

 

(l)  The term "IPOC" shall mean the Investment Process Oversight Committee comprised of the Vice President – Treasurer, the Associate General Counsel and Secretary, and the Director – Employee Benefits (or, in the event of a change in title, their functional equivalent).

 

 

 


 

 

(m)  The term "Investment Process Committee" shall mean the committee comprised of the Director – Global Trading and Automotive Risk Management, the Director – Asset Management, and the Director – Global Retirement and Income Security (or, in the event of a change in title, their functional equivalent),.

 

(o) The term “SC Plan” shall mean the Ford Motor Company Supplemental Compensation Plan, as amended.

 

(p) The term “Section 16 Person” shall mean any employee who is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) or the liability provisions of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(q) The term “Separation From Service” shall occur upon an employee's retirement or other termination from employment with the Company.

 

(r) The term “Specified Employee” shall mean an employee of the Company who is a "Key Employee" as defined in Code Section 416(i)(1)(A)(i), (ii) or (iii), applied in accordance with the regulations thereunder and disregarding Subsection 416(i)(5).  A Specified Employee shall be identified as of December 31 st of each calendar year and such identification shall apply to any Specified Employee who shall incur a Separation From Service in the 12-month period commencing April 1 st of the immediately succeeding calendar year.  An employee who is determined to be a Specified Employee shall remain a Specified Employee throughout such 12-month period regardless of whether the employee meets the definition of "Specified Employee" on the date the employee incurs a Separation From Service.  This provision is effective for Specified Employees who incur a Separation From Service on or after January 1, 2005.  For purposes of determining Specified Employees, the definition of compensation under Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(d)(3) shall be used, applied without the use of any of the special timing rules provided in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(e) or the special rule in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(g)(5)(i), but applied with the use of the special rule in Treasury Regulation Section 1.415(c)-2(g)(5)(ii).

 

(s) The term “SSIP” shall mean the Company’s Savings and Stock Investment Plan for Salaried Employees, as amended.

 

(t) The term “subsidiary” shall mean (i) any corporation a majority of the voting stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by the Company or (ii) any limited liability company a majority of the membership interest of which is owned directly or indirectly by the Company.

 

(u) The term “VIP Plan” shall mean Ford Motor Credit Company Variable Incentive Plan, as amended.

 

3. Administration. Except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the Compensation Committee shall have full power and authority to construe, interpret and administer the Plan. The Compensation Committee shall make all decisions relating to matters affecting any Section 16 Person, but may otherwise delegate any of its authority under the Plan. The Compensation Committee and the Deferred Compensation Committee each may at any time adopt or terminate, and may from time to time amend, modify or suspend such rules, regulations, policies and practices as they in their sole discretion may determine in connection with the administration of, or the performance of their respective responsibilities under, the Plan.  In the event that an Article, Section or paragraph of the Code, Treasury Regulations, AIC Plan, SC Plan, SSIP, or VIP Plan is renumbered, such renumbered Article, Section or paragraph shall apply to applicable references herein.

 

4. Eligibility of Participants; Amounts Deferrable.

 

(a) Participating Subsidiaries and Foreign Location Participants. The Deferred Compensation Committee shall determine the extent to which subsidiaries and employees at foreign locations may participate in the Plan or similar plans and the type and amount of compensation that may be deferred under, or the type and amount of account balances that may be transferred to, the Plan pursuant to this paragraph (a).

 

(b) Annual Incentive Compensation Deferrals under the AIC Plan and Other Similar Plans. Subject to any limitations determined under paragraph (a) or paragraph (g) of this Section 4 or paragraph (a) of Section 5, U.S. employees who receive an annual incentive compensation award or an installment of such an award payable in cash under the AIC Plan or the VIP Plan are eligible to defer payment under the Plan from 1% to 100%, in 1% increments, of such amount, net of applicable taxes, but not less than $1,000, provided that such employees are actively employed by the Company in Leadership Level 1-5 or the equivalent at the time of the election to defer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Compensation Committee may in its sole discretion allow deferrals under this paragraph (b) by persons that do not meet the eligibility requirements described above.

 

 

 


 

 

(c) Base Salary Deferrals. Subject to any limitations determined under paragraph (a) or paragraph (g) of this Section 4, U.S. employees who are eligible to participate in the AIC Plan or the VIP Plan, and who are actively employed by the Company in Leadership Level 1-5 or the equivalent at the time a salary deferral election is made, are eligible to defer payment from 1% to 50%, in 1% increments, of base salary, net of applicable taxes, provided that the Compensation Committee has determined that base salary deferrals may be made for the employment period covered by such deferral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Compensation Committee may impose such additional limitations on eligibility as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion.

 

(d) Deferral of Awards under SC Plan. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, deferrals of awards of supplemental compensation made under the SC Plan for years 1995-1997 shall be governed by the same provisions of the Plan that apply to awards of incentive compensation under the AIC Plan. Any references to the AIC Plan shall be deemed to cover awards under the SC Plan.

 

(e) Deferral of New Hire Signing Bonus. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Plan to the contrary, subject to any limitations determined under paragraph (a) or paragraph (e) of this Section 4, newly hired U.S. employees who are eligible to participate in the AIC Plan or the VIP Plan, and who received an employment offer from the Company that included a new hire signing bonus in cash, are eligible to defer payment from 1% to 100%, in 1% increments, of such new hire signing bonus, net of applicable taxes, but not less than $1,000, provided that such employees are actively employed by the Company in Leadership Level 1-5 or the equivalent at the time the new hire signing bonus would otherwise be payable in the absence of such deferral.

 

(f) Eligibility of Compensation Committee Members. No person while a member of the Compensation Committee shall be eligible to participate under the Plan.

 

(g) Transfer of Deferral Accounts from SC Plan. Effective as of the close of business on October 16, 1998, all outstanding book entry accounts maintained under the SC Plan in the form of contingent credits for cash and/or Ford Common Stock shall be transferred to the Plan and governed by the provisions of the Plan. Upon such transfer, contingent credits for cash shall be valued based on the Fidelity Retirement Money Market Portfolio and contingent credits for Ford Common Stock shall be valued based on the Ford Stock Fund until such time, if any, as all or any part of such amounts are transferred by the applicable participants to other investment options available under the Plan. Ultimate payout of a transferred deferral account shall be in cash, except that, to the extent that the transferred account is valued based on the Ford Stock Fund, the participant may make an election prior to the transfer of the account to receive the ultimate payout in whole shares of Common Stock.

 

(h) Transfer of Deferral Accounts to Visteon Plan. Anything in the Plan to the contrary notwithstanding, all outstanding book entry deferral accounts maintained under the Plan for participants who become employees of Visteon Corporation ("Visteon") or any of its consolidated subsidiaries immediately following employment with the Company shall be transferred to a new Visteon Deferred Compensation Plan ("Visteon DCP") to be adopted by Visteon and governed by the provisions of that plan, effective as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 30, 2000 (the "Transfer Date"). The transferred account balances may not be immediately available for redesignations under the Plan until account balances have been properly verified by the recordkeepers for both plans.  On and after the Transfer Date, any deferrals by such employees shall be made under the Visteon DCP, even if the election to defer was made prior to the Transfer Date.  Unless the participant changes his or her investment options for any such deferral, the Visteon DCP shall honor the investment elections that were in effect under this Plan for such class year and type of compensation to the extent the Visteon DCP has the same investment choices.  The Visteon DCP shall have a Ford Stock Fund investment option for those transferred accounts that had deferrals based on the Ford Stock Fund under this Plan as of the Transfer Date, but the Ford Stock Fund under the Visteon DCP shall be a "sell only" fund, and would not be available for any new deferrals or redesignations into such fund from other funds or for credits based on dividend equivalents.  Distributions relating to the transferred accounts shall be made under the Visteon DCP in the form specified by the participant while employed by the Company.

 

5. Deferral Elections.

 

(a) Annual Incentive Compensation Deferrals. For performance years beginning prior to January 1, 2005, a participant’s decision to defer payment of annual incentive compensation under paragraph (b) of Section 4 under the Plan must be made prior to October 31 of the performance year for which the compensation is determined. For performance years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, a participant’s decision to defer payment of annual incentive compensation under paragraph (b) of Section 4 under the Plan must be made on or before June 30 of the performance year for which the compensation is determined; provided, however, that, at the time of such deferral election, the amount of any annual incentive compensation subject to such deferral election is substantially uncertain; provided, further, that newly hired employees who are hired on or after June 1 st may not make such an election to defer payment of annual incentive compensation in the year of hire.

 

 

 


 

 

(b) Base Salary Deferrals. A participant’s decision to defer payment of base salary under the Plan must be made prior to the calendar year during which the base salary will be earned; provided, however, that such decision may be made with respect to base salary earned during the first calendar year that base salary deferrals are permitted under the Plan within thirty days of implementation of the base salary component of the Plan but prior to earning any such salary.  Employees hired or rehired on or after June 1 st may not make such elections to defer payment of base salary until the next election period following the year of hire or rehire.

 

(c) New Hire Signing Bonus Deferrals. A participant’s decision to defer payment of a new hire signing bonus must be made before the earlier of:  (i) the payment date of such signing bonus, or (ii) 30 days after the date of hire or rehire.

 

(d) Mandatory Deferrals. The Compensation Committee may mandatorily defer payment under the Plan of all or a portion of certain annual incentive compensation awards pursuant to the AIC Plan.  In no event may any mandatory deferral pursuant t


 
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