Exhibit 10.1
INFOCUS
CORPORATION
2006 RESTATED
CORPORATE EXECUTIVE
SEVERANCE PAY PLAN
AND
SUMMARY PLAN DESCRIPTION
INFOCUS CORPORATION
2006 RESTATED CORPORATE EXECUTIVE
SEVERANCE PAY PLAN
AND
SUMMARY PLAN DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS
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ii
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PART A
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PREAMBLE
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Intent and Purpose
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2
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Effective Dates
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PART B
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Eligibility
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2
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Payment Events
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3
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Severance Benefits
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4
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Payment Commencement Date
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2
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5
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Release and Waiver Agreement
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6
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Salary Continuation Severance Benefit
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2
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7
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COBRA Premium Equivalent Payment
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3
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8
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Outplacement Benefits
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3
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9
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Conditions to Benefit Payments
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10
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“Good Reason”
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11
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“Change in Control”
Exception
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12
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“Cause”
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8
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13
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Withholding
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14
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280G Adjustment
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9
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15
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Death Benefit
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Amendment or Termination
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9
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17
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Transition Election
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10
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PART C
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND GENERAL
PROVISIONS
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10
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PART D
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STATEMENT OF ERISA RIGHTS
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14
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INDEX OF
DEFINED TERMS
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Beneficiary
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Part B, Section 15
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Board of Directors
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Part B, Section 1
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Business
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Part B, Section 9.b.(i)
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Cause
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Part B, Section 12
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Change in Control
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Part B, Section 11
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Code
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Part A, Section 2
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Company
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Part A, Section 1
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Compensation
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Part B, Section 6.c
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Competitive Entity
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Part B, Section 9.b.(i)
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Date of Termination
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Part B, Section 5.d
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Effective Date
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Part A, Section 2
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ERISA
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Part D
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Excess Parachute Payment
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Part B, Section 14
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Exchange Act
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Part B, Section 11.a.(i)
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Excise Tax
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Part B, Section 14
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Executive
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Part B, Section 1
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Good Reason
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Part B, Section 10
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InFocus
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Part A, Section 1
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Management Change in Control
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Part B, Section 11.b
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Payment Commencement Date
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Part B, Section 4
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Person
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Part B, Section 11.a.(i)
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Plan
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Part A, Section 1
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Plan Administrator
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Part C, Section 1
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Plan Year
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Part C, Section 7
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Specified Employee
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Part B, Section 9.e
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Tax Counsel
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Part B, Section 14
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Top Hat Welfare Plan
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Part C, Section 8
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2006 RESTATED CORPORATE EXECUTIVE
SEVERANCE
PAY PLAN
AND
SUMMARY PLAN DESCRIPTION
Approved November 28,
2006
PART A. PREAMBLE
1.
Intent and Purpose.
This is the restatement of the
InFocus Executive Severance Pay Plan (the “Plan”). It
is intended to foster the continued employment of key management
employees of InFocus Corporation (“InFocus”) and its
affiliates (collectively the “Company”).
2.
Effective Dates.
The Plan was originally effective
April 10, 2000. This restatement is generally effective immediately
upon the approval date stated in the caption. However, provisions
that reference Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section
409A or are otherwise required or intended to comply with Code
Section 409A are effective retroactive to January 1,
2005.
PART B. TERMS AND
CONDITIONS
1.
Eligibility.
This Plan is limited to officers of
the Company with a grade level of E-30 (Vice-Presidents and above)
who have been selected by the Board of Directors of InFocus
(“Board”) for coverage under this Plan
(“Executive”). The Board shall notify InFocus’s
Director, Human Resources & Facilities of the selection of an
Executive for participation in this Plan. The Director, Human
Resources & Facilities shall maintain a list of the Executives
who have been selected for participation in the Plan and the date
their coverage began.
2 .
Payment Events.
Benefits will be paid under this
Plan only to those Executives:
a.
Whose employment is involuntarily
terminated other than for Cause (as defined in Section 12 below);
or
b.
Who resign with Good Reason within
18 months of a Change in Control (as defined in Sections 10 and 11
below, respectively).
3.
Severance Benefits.
An Executive whose employment
terminates under one of the circumstances described in Section 2
above, shall, subject to the conditions of Sections 4 and 9.b.
below, receive the following severance benefits under this
Plan:
a.
The salary continuation severance
benefit under Section 6 below;
b.
The COBRA premium equivalent payment
under Section 7 below; and
c.
Outplacement benefits under Section
8 below.
4.
Payment Commencement
Date. Subject to the
six-month delay in payment under Section 9.e. below for certain
Executives, payment of the severance benefits under this Plan will
begin on the eighth business day after the Executive has returned
to the Plan Administrator a signed Release and Waiver Agreement (as
provided under Section 5 below), or as soon as administratively
feasible thereafter (the “Payment Commencement Date”),
provided:
a.
Neither party has revoked the
Release and Waiver Agreement during the seven-day rescission period
that begins on the day after the Executive returns the signed
agreement to the Plan Administrator; and
b.
The Executive is then in compliance
with Section 9.b. below.
5.
Release and Waiver
Agreement.
a.
The Release and Waiver Agreement
shall be in the form shown in the Addendum to this Agreement. The
Executive may use the form attached to this Agreement or may obtain
an additional form from the Plan Administrator.
b.
The Executive shall have 45 days
from the Executive’s Date of Termination to consider and
return the Release and Waiver Agreement. Absent extenuating
circumstances acceptable to the Plan Administrator, failure to
return that Agreement within 45 days will result in a forfeiture of
any benefits payable under this Plan.
c.
A Release and Waiver Agreement will
be deemed returned to the Plan Administrator on the date it is
actually delivered or the date it is postmarked if sent by first
class U.S. mail.
d.
“Date of Termination”
means the effective date of the Executive’s termination of
employment with the Company.
6.
Salary Continuation Severance
Benefit. The salary
continuation severance benefit will be paid as follows:
a.
Gross Amount of Benefit:
(i)
For Executive Vice President, Sr.
Vice President and Vice President-level employees: 12 months of
Compensation.
(ii)
For CEO or President-level
Executives: 24 months of Compensation.
b.
Payment Terms.
(i)
Subject to the Executive’s
initial and ongoing compliance with Section 9.b. below, payments
will begin on the Payment Commencement Date and the remaining 11 or
23 payments, as applicable, will be paid in equal monthly
installments on the Company’s regular payroll
dates.
(ii)
Payments are subject to:
(I)
Withholding under Section 13 below;
and
(II)
The 280G adjustment under Section 14
below.
c.
“Compensation” means the
Executive’s annual base salary as of the Date of Termination
or, if applicable, the date the Executive is notified of the
involuntary termination, whichever is greater, and, as such,
excludes any bonus, profit share pay, target sales commissions or
other types of remuneration.
7.
COBRA Premium Equivalent
Payment. The COBRA
premium equivalent payment will be paid as follows:
a.
Gross Amount of Payment. The
Executive will receive a single lump sum cash payment equal to the
estimated premiums for the COBRA coverage that the Executive would
be entitled to elect under the Company’s group health policy
for the following period:
(i)
For Executive Vice President, Sr.
Vice President and Vice President-level employees: 12
months.
(ii)
For CEO or President-level
Executives: 24 months.
b.
Payment Terms.
(i)
The lump-sum payment will be made on
the Payment Commencement Date.
(ii)
The payment is subject to
withholding under Section 13 below.
8.
Outplacement Benefits.
The Executive will be entitled to
receive executive-level outplacement services for up to 12 months
from the Payment Commencement Date. These services will be provided
by an outplacement consulting service provider selected or approved
by the Plan Administrator. The Company will pay the service
provider directly for these benefits. The Executive will not have
an option to receive cash in lieu of these outplacement
benefits.
9.
Conditions to Benefit
Payments.
a.
No mitigation shall be required,
and, except as provided in subparagraph b.(i) below, no reduction
shall be made if an Executive finds employment during the payout
period.
b.
All benefits under this Plan shall
cease and the Company shall have no payment obligation to or on
behalf of the Executive if:
(i)
The Executive, directly or
indirectly, owns, has any interest in, acts as an officer,
director, agent, employee or consultant of, or assists in any way
or in any capacity any person, firm, association, partnership,
corporation or other entity which engages or proposes to engage in
any business competitive with the Business (as defined below) of
InFocus in any geographical area where InFocus engages in such
business (a “Competitive Entity”). The restrictions of
this section prohibiting ownership in a Competitive Entity shall
not apply to Executive’s ownership of less than one percent
(1%) of publicly traded securities of any Competitive Entity. The
“Business” is defined as the manufacture, distribution
or development of data/video projectors or components
thereof;
(ii)
The Executive induces, asks,
solicits, or attempts to induce, ask, or solicit, directly,
indirectly, or by assisting others, any person who is in the
Company’s employment or providing services to the Company, to
leave such employment or business relationship and, as a result,
said person actually does leave the employment or business
relationship with the Company, unless the Executive receives prior
written consent from the Company;
(iii)
The Executive materially
breaches:
(I)
The Business Protection Agreement
(or any successor proprietary information, assignment of invention
and/or confidentiality agreement(s)) or any other agreements or
Company policies regarding the protection of the Company’s
trade secrets or proprietary or confidential information;
or
(II)
The Executive’s common law
duty to protect the Company’s proprietary or confidential
information; or
(iv)
The Executive’s employment is
terminated due to the Executive’s death or disability;
provided, however, that once an Executive becomes entitled to
severance benefits hereunder, any subsequent death or disability of
the Executive during the relevant severance benefit payment period
will not impair or terminate the severance benefits.
c.
Nothing contained in this Plan is
designed to limit in any manner any additional legal or equitable
remedies that the Company may have against the Executive for
violation of his or her contractual or legal obligations regarding
confidentiality, competition or solicitation.
d.
If the Executive is found to have
violated any of the provisions within subparagraph b.(i), (ii) or
(iii) above, the Company has the right to recover from the
Executive, and the Executive shall repay, all payments made to
him/her through the date of the failure to conform with such
provisions.
e.
Payments of the salary continuation
severance benefit or the COBRA premium equivalent payment may not
be made to an Executive who is a CEO or President-level Executive
before the date which is six months after the date of the
Executive’s Date of Termination. The first payment shall be
made on the first business day following such six-month period and
shall consist of all payments that would have been made absent the
six-month suspension. This subparagraph also applies to any other
Executive whose severance benefits may become subject to the
six-month delay provision applicable to a “specified
employee” (as defined in Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B) and the
applicable regulations).
f.
Nothing herein affects, modifies or
amends any benefit that may be available under any other plan,
agreement or other Company policy that is either in effect on the
date this Plan is approved or that will be in effect on the date
the notice of termination is sent by the Company to the Executive
or, if applicable, by the Executive to the Company.
g .
Payments to an Executive hereunder
may not be accelerated except to the extent that the accelerated
payment is:
(i)
Allowed under Code Section 409A and
the applicable regulations; and
(ii)
Approved by the Plan
Administrator.
h.
Any payment due under this Plan will
be delayed if, in the opinion of the Company’s counsel or
accountants, that payment would violate:
(i)
A term of a loan agreement or other
similar contract to which the Company is a party but only
if:
(I)
That violation will cause material
harm to the Company; and
(II)
The Company has first made a good
faith effort to have the lender waive that term and the lender has
refused to do so; or
(ii)
Federal securities laws or other
applicable law.
Payment of the delayed payment must
be made at the earliest date at which, in the opinion of the
Company’s counsel or accountants, the payment would not cause
such a violation or, in the case of a violation under subparagraph
h.(ii) above, such violation will not cause material harm to the
Company.
10.
“Good
Reason.” Subject to
the notice requirement in paragraph b. below, “Good
Reason” shall mean:
a.
The occurrence, within 18 months
after a Change in Control (and without the Executive’s
written consent), of any one of the following acts by the Company,
or failures by the Company to act:
(i)
The assignment to the Executive of
any material duties inconsistent with Executive’s status at
the time of the Change in Control, or a substantial adverse
alteration in the nature and status of Executive’s
responsibilities as existed immediately prior to the Change in
Control; or
(ii)
Any material reduction by the
Company in the Executive’s annual base salary as in effect
immediately prior to the Change in Control; or
(iii)
The failure by the Company to pay to
the Executive any portion of Executive’s current salary or
incentive compensation within ten (10) days of the date
su