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.
(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