PRESENT CONDITIONS AND BENEFITS All rights, benefits and working conditions which employees now enjoy, receive or possess as employees of the Employer shall continue to be enjoyed and possessed insofar as they are consistent with this Agreement but may be modified by mutual agreement between the Employer and the Union.
Employees and Benefits (a) The employees of FCB who remain employed after the Effective Date (“Continuing Employees”) shall be given credit under each employee benefit plan, policy, program and arrangement maintained by IBERIABANK after the Closing for their service with FCB prior to the Closing for all purposes, including severance, vacation and sick leave, eligibility to participate, vesting, satisfying any waiting periods, evidence of insurability requirements, seniority or the application of any pre-existing condition limitations, other than benefit accrual under a defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA); provided, however, that accrued vacation taken subsequent to the Effective Date may be subject to such limitations as IBKC or IBERIABANK may reasonably require. Any employee of PFSL or FCB who does not remain employed by FCB after the Effective Date or does not receive a severance payment in connection with the Merger shall receive a severance payment as if he or she were an employee of IBKC for the entire time he or she were an employee of PFSL or FCB. (b) In the event of any termination of any PFSL or FCB health plan, IBKC and IBERIABANK shall make available to Continuing Employees and their dependents, employer-provided health care coverage under health plans provided by IBKC or IBERIABANK. Unless a Continuing Employee affirmatively terminates coverage under a PFSL or FCB health plan prior to the time that such Continuing Employee becomes eligible to participate in the IBKC or IBERIABANK health plan, no coverage of any of the Continuing Employees or their dependents shall terminate under any of the PFSL or FCB health plans prior to the time such Continuing Employees and their dependents become eligible to participate in the health plans, programs and benefits common to all employees and their dependents of IBKC or IBERIABANK. In the event IBKC or IBERIABANK terminates any PFSL or FCB health plan or consolidates of any PFSL or FCB health plan with any IBKC or IBERIABANK health plan, individuals covered by the PFSL or FCB health plan shall be entitled to immediate coverage under the IBKC or IBERIABANK health plan in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended, and the regulations issued thereunder, including limitations on pre-existing condition exclusions, nondiscrimination and special enrollment rights. All PFSL or FCB employees who cease participating in a PFSL or FCB health plan and become participants in a comparable IBKC or IBERIABANK health plan shall receive credit for any co-payment and deductibles paid under PFSL’s or FCB’s health plan, to the extent such credit would be provided under PFSL’s or FCB’s health plan, for purposes of satisfying any applicable deductible or out-of-pocket requirements under the IBKC or IBERIABANK health plan, upon substantiation, in a form reasonably satisfactory to IBKC or IBERIABANK, that such co-payment and/or deductible has been satisfied.
Payments and Benefits If an Event occurs during the Term of this Agreement, then the Executive shall be entitled to receive from the Company or its successor (which includes any person acquiring all or substantially all of the assets of the Company) a cash payment and other benefits on the following basis (unless the Executive's employment by the Company is terminated voluntarily or involuntarily before the occurrence of the earliest Event to occur (the "First Event"), in which case the Executive shall be entitled to no payment or benefits under this Section 3): (a) If at the time of, or at any time after, the occurrence of the First Event and before the end of the Transition Period, the employment of the Executive with the Company is voluntarily or involuntarily terminated for any reason (unless such termination is a voluntary termination by the Executive other than a Constructive Involuntary Termination or is on account of the death or Disability of the Executive or is a termination by the Company for Cause), the Executive (or the Executive's legal representative, as the case may be), subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 3(e) and 3(g), (1) shall be entitled to receive from the Company or its successor, upon such termination of employment with the Company or its successor, a cash payment in an amount equal to three times the sum of (A) the Executive's then-current annual base salary and (B) the greater of (i) the Executive's annualized then-current year's bonus or (ii) the Executive's annual bonus in the year prior to the then-current year, such payment to be made to the Executive by the Company or its successor in a lump sum at the time of such termination of employment; and (2) shall be entitled for three years after the termination of the Executive's employment with the Company to participate in any health, disability and life insurance plan or program in which the Executive was entitled to participate immediately before the First Event as if he were an employee of the Company during such three-year period; provided however, that if the Executive's participation in any such health, disability or life insurance plan or program of the Company is barred, the Company, at its sole cost and expense, shall arrange to provide the Executive with benefits substantially similar to those that the Executive would be entitled to receive under such plan or program as if he were not barred from participation. (b) The payments provided for in this Section 3 shall be in addition to any salary or other remuneration otherwise payable to the Executive on account of employment by the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries or its successor (including any amounts received before such termination of employment for personal services rendered after the occurrence of the First Event) but shall be reduced by any severance pay which the Executive receives from the Company, its subsidiaries or its successor under any other policy or agreement of the Company in the event of involuntary termination of Executive's employment. (c) The Company shall also pay to the Executive all legal fees and expenses incurred by the Executive as a result of such termination, including all such fees and expenses, if any, incurred in contesting or disputing any such termination or in seeking to obtain or enforce any right or benefit provided by this Agreement. (d) If at any time from the date of the First Event until the end of the Transition Period, (1) the Executive shall not be given substantially equivalent or greater title, duties, responsibilities and authority, in each case as compared with the Executive's status immediately before the First Event, other than for Cause or on account of Disability; (2) the Executive's annual base salary or bonus formula shall be reduced from the Executive's annual base salary or bonus formula in effect immediately before the First Event; (3) the Company shall fail to provide the Executive with benefits under the Company's pension, profit sharing, retirement, life insurance, medical, health and accident, disability, bonus and incentive plans and other employee benefit plans and arrangements that in the aggregate for all such plans and arrangements are at least as favorable to the Executive as those benefits covering the Executive immediately before the First Event or shall fail to provide the Executive with at least the number of paid vacation days to which the Executive was entitled immediately before the First Event; (4) the Company shall have failed to obtain assumption of this Agreement by any successor as contemplated by Section 5(b) hereof; (5) the Company shall require the Executive to relocate to any place other than a location within 30 miles of the location at which the Executive performed his primary duties immediately before the First Event or, if the Executive performed such duties at the Company's principal executive offices, the Company shall relocate its principal executive offices to any location other than a location within 30 miles of the location of the principal executive offices immediately before the First Event; or (6) the Company shall require that the Executive travel on Company business to a substantially greater extent than required immediately before the First Event; then a termination of employment with the Company by the Executive thereafter shall constitute a "Constructive Involuntary Termination." (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, except the last sentence of this Section 3(e), if the lump-sum cash payment due and the other benefits to which the Executive shall become entitled under Section 3(a), either alone or together with other payments in the nature of compensation to the Executive that are contingent on a change in the ownership or effective control of the Company or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company or otherwise, would constitute a "parachute payment" as defined in Section 280G of the Code or any successor provision thereto, such lump-sum payment and/or such other benefits and payments shall be reduced (but not below zero) to the largest aggregate amount as will result in no portion thereof being subject to the excise tax imposed under Section 4999 of the Code (or any successor provision thereto) or being non-deductible to the Company for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Section 280G of the Code (or any successor provision thereto). The Executive in good faith shall determine the amount of any reduction to be made pursuant to this Section 3(e) and shall select from among the foregoing benefits and payments those which shall be reduced. No modification of, or successor provision to, Section 280G or Section 4999 after the date of this Agreement shall, however, reduce the benefits to which the Executive would be entitled under this Agreement in the absence of this Section 3(e) to a greater extent than they would have been reduced if Section 280G and Section 4999 had not been modified or superseded after the date of this Agreement, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in the first sentence of this Section 3(e). (f) The Executive shall not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment or other benefit provided for in this Section 3 by seeking other employment or otherwise, nor (except as specifically provided in Section 3(a)(2) or 3(b)) shall the amount of any payment or other benefit provided for in this Section 3 be reduced by any compensation earned by the Executive as the result of employment by another employer after termination, or otherwise. (g) Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement, if (1) an Event has not yet occurred, (2) the Board of Directors of the Company desires to cause the Company to effect a transaction that will qualify as a pooling-of-interests transaction (a "Pooling Transaction") and (3) the independent certified public accountants for the Company advise the Board of Directors that they will be unable to render an opinion that such transaction will be treated as a Pooling Transaction solely because of the payments provided for in this Agreement (or in similar agreements with other employees of the Company), then the Executive agrees that upon the happening of any Event in connection with such Pooling Transaction he shall not be entitled to any payments under this Agreement as a result of such Event to the extent such payments would in the opinion of the Company's independent certified public accountants prevent them from providing the Company with a favorable opinion with respect to the treatment of the desired transaction as a Pooling Transaction. (h) The obligations of the Company under this Section 3 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
Severance Payments and Benefits If Executive (a) executes this Agreement and the revocation period described in Section 8 hereof expires within sixty (60) days following the Termination Date (the date on which such revocation period expires, the “Release Effective Date”) and (b) continues to comply with the covenants under the Employee Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement and any other material ongoing obligations to which he is subject, then the Executive shall be entitled to the following (the “Severance Benefits”): (a) An amount in cash equal to $4,000,000, payable in substantially equal installments for twenty-four (24) months following the Termination Date (the “Payment Period”) in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices; provided that the first such payment shall be made on the first regularly scheduled payroll date following the Release Effective Date and shall include all payments that would have otherwise been made between the Termination Date and the Release Effective Date if such payments had commenced on the Termination Date; (b) A lump sum cash payment equal to the product of (i) the lesser of (A) the cash bonus, if any, that would have been paid to Executive pursuant to the terms of the annual cash incentive plan in which Executive participates in respect of the 2015 fiscal year, had he remained in employment and (B) $1,000,000 and (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days that elapsed in the 2015 fiscal year through the Termination Date and the denominator of which is 365, payable on the date such bonuses are paid to then-current employees of the Company; (c) Subject to Executive’s timely election to continue coverage under COBRA, the Company shall pay the COBRA premiums to continue Executive’s coverage (including coverage for Executive’s eligible dependents, if applicable) for eighteen (18) months following the Termination Date (with such payments to end if Executive becomes eligible for group health insurance coverage through a new employer or Executive ceases to be eligible for COBRA continuation coverage for any reason), provided that the cost of such coverage shall be reported to the tax authorities as taxable income to Executive; (d) 4,882,143 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.00000625 per share of the Company (each, a “Share”) subject to the Make-Whole Grant (as defined in the Offer Letter) shall vest as of the Termination Date; (e) 228,938 Shares subject to Executive’s Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, dated March 14, 2014, shall vest as of the Termination Date; and (f) 189,552 Shares subject to Executive’s Stock Option Grant Notice and Option Agreement, dated March 14, 2014, shall vest as of the Termination Date. Executive shall have up to two (2) years from the Termination Date to exercise not only these vested Shares, but also the Shares from all previously vested and currently unexercised Stock Option Grants. (g) Company agrees to reimburse Executive for attorneys’ fees and costs that he may incur for legal advice regarding the negotiation of this Agreement, up to a maximum payment of $25,000. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if, on or following the Termination Date, Executive (i) fails to comply with his material obligations to the Company or (ii) materially breaches any of the covenants under the Employee Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement or Section 15 of the Offer Letter or any other material ongoing obligations to which he is subject, then Executive shall immediately forfeit his right to receive the Severance Benefits, to the extent then unpaid, provided that such material breach or obligation causes a measure of harm to the Company. The Company shall provide Executive with written notice of the breach and give him ten (10) days to either cure the breach, to the extent curable, or explain why he does not believe there has been a breach. This paragraph shall be in addition to any other remedy at law or in equity available to the Company.
Pay and Benefits An employee involved in a return to work program will receive pay and benefits as set out below. Employees participating in a return to work program for fifteen (15) hours or more per week are entitled to all the benefits of the agreement, on a proportionate basis, except for medical, extended health and dental plan coverage, which shall be paid in accordance with Article 38. Wage entitlement, when participating in the program, will be consistent with the terms of the agreement and are outlined below: