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EX-10.5 - EX-10.5 - EMS TECHNOLOGIES INC | g27532exv10w5.htm |
EX-10.1 - EX-10.1 - EMS TECHNOLOGIES INC | g27532exv10w1.htm |
EX-10.2 - EX-10.2 - EMS TECHNOLOGIES INC | g27532exv10w2.htm |
EX-10.4 - EX-10.4 - EMS TECHNOLOGIES INC | g27532exv10w4.htm |
EXHIBIT 10.3
Amendment
of Employee Performance Bonus Plan
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that, effective as of the Effective Time, Section 5 of the
Performance Bonus Plan is amended to adopt a new Section 5(e) to read as follows:
(e) Determination in Connection With a Change in Control - Notwithstanding any provision of
this Plan to the contrary, if a Participant is employed by the Company on the date of a
Change in Control (as hereinafter defined) that was previously approved by the Incumbent
Board (whether or not such Participant is employed on the date 2011 bonuses under the
Performance Bonus Plan are approved (the Bonus Approval Date), unless such Participant
resigns prior to the applicable Bonus Approval Date), then notwithstanding the fact that
such Participant is terminated by the Company (including any successor to the Company or
such successors subsidiaries or affiliates) prior to the applicable Bonus Approval Date,
other than a termination for Cause (as hereinafter defined), such Participant will receive a
lump-sum cash payment equal to the Target Bonus for such Participant, within 30 days
following the applicable Bonus Approval Date. For purposes of this Section 5(e), Cause
means any of the following, as determined in the sole discretion of the Committee: (i) clear
evidence of a significant violation of the Companys code of business conduct; (ii) a fraud
committed against the Company; (iii) the misappropriation, embezzlement or reckless or
willful destruction of Company property; (iv) the willful failure to perform, or gross
negligence in the performance of, duties; (v) the conviction (treating a nolo contendere
plea as a conviction) of a felony (whether or not any right to appeal has been or may be
exercised); (vi) the knowing falsification of any records or documents of the Company; (vii)
a significant breach of any statutory or common law duty of loyalty to the Company; (viii)
intentional and improper conduct significantly prejudicial to the business of the Company,
or (ix) the violation of Company rules and policies that, based on a single occurrence,
would not meet the significance thresholds of (i), (vii) or (viii) above, but that shall,
for purposes of such significance thresholds, be deemed to constitute a violation thereof in
the event any such violation occurs more than once. For purposes of this Section 5(e),
Change in Control means any of the following events: (1) the acquisition in one or more
transactions by any person or group (as such terms are defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the 1934 Act)), of Beneficial Ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under 1934 Act) of 50% or more of the combined voting
power of the Companys then-outstanding voting securities; or (2) the individuals who are
members of the Incumbent Board (as defined below), cease for any reason to constitute at
least two-thirds of the Board. The Incumbent Board consists of the individuals who as of
January 23, 1997, are members of the Board and any individual becoming a director subsequent
to January 23, 1997, whose election, or nomination for election by the Companys
shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then composing
the Incumbent Board; provided, however, that any individual who is not a member of the
Incumbent Board at the time he or she becomes a member of the Board shall become a member of
the Incumbent Board upon the completion of two full years as a member of the Board, except
that no individual shall be considered a member of the Incumbent Board if such
individual initially assumed office (i) as a result of either an actual or threatened
election contest (within the meaning of Rule 14a-11 under the 1934 Act) or other actual or
threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a person other than the
Board (a Proxy Contest), or (ii) with the approval of the other Board members, but by
reason of any agreement intended to avoid or settle a Proxy Contest; or (3) approval by
shareholders of the Company of (i) a merger or consolidation involving the Company if such
shareholders do not, immediately following such merger or consolidation, own, directly or
indirectly, more than 50% of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting securities
of the corporation resulting from such merger or consolidation in substantially the same
proportion as their ownership of the Companys voting securities immediately before such
merger or consolidation, or (ii) a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or an
agreement for the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company.