Welfare, Pension and Incentive Benefit Plans During the Employment Period, Executive (and his eligible spouse and dependents) shall be entitled to participate in all the welfare benefit plans and programs maintained by the Company from time-to-time for the benefit of its senior executives including, without limitation, all medical, hospitalization, dental, disability, accidental death and dismemberment and travel accident insurance plans and programs. In addition, during the Employment Period, Executive shall be eligible to participate in all pension, retirement, savings and other employee benefit plans and programs maintained from time-to-time by the Company for the benefit of its senior executives, other than any annual cash incentive plan.
Defined Benefit Pension Plans The Borrower will not adopt, create, assume or become a party to any defined benefit pension plan, unless disclosed to the Lender pursuant to Section 5.10.
Termination of Employee Plans The Company shall have provided Parent with evidence, reasonably satisfactory to Parent, as to the termination of the benefit plans referred to in Section 5.12.
ERISA; Benefit Plans Schedule 3.22 (i) lists (A) each ERISA Pension Benefit Plan (1) the funding requirements of which (under Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code) are, or at any time during the six-year period ended on the date hereof were, in whole or in part, the responsibility of the Company or (2) respecting which the Company is, or at any time during that period was, a "contributing sponsor" or an "employer" as defined in Sections 4001(a)(13) and 3(5), respectively, of ERISA (each plan this clause (A) describes being a "Company ERISA Pension Plan"), (B) each other ERISA Pension Benefit Plan respecting which an ERISA Affiliate is, or at any time during that period was, such a "contributing sponsor" or "employer" (each plan this clause (B) describes being an "ERISA Affiliate Pension Plan") and (C) each other ERISA Employee Benefit Plan that is being, or at any time during that period was, sponsored, maintained or contributed to by the Company (each plan this clause (C) describes and each Company ERISA Pension Plan being a "Company ERISA Benefit Plan"), (ii) states the termination date of each Company ERISA Benefit Plan and ERISA Affiliate Pension Plan that has been terminated and (iii) identifies for each ERISA Affiliate Pension Plan the relevant ERISA Affiliates. The Company has provided Buyer with true, complete and correct copies of (i) the Company ERISA Benefit Plan and ERISA Affiliate Pension Plan, (ii) each trust agreement related thereto and (iii) all amendments to those plans and trust agreements. Except as Schedule 3.22 sets forth, (i) the Company is not, and at no time during the six-year period ended on the date hereof was, a member of any ERISA Group that currently includes, or included when the Company was a member, among its members any Person other than the Company and (ii) no Person is an ERISA Affiliate of the Company.
Pension and Benefit Plans The Company hereby represents and warrants to Acquiror that: (a) Schedule 5.14(a) contains a correct and complete list identifying each material “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, each employment, severance, change in control or similar contract, plan, arrangement or policy and each other plan or arrangement providing for compensation, profit-sharing, stock option or other stock-related rights or other forms of incentive or deferred compensation, insurance (including any self-insured arrangements), health or medical benefits, disability or sick leave benefits, post-employment or retirement benefits and fringe benefits (each, an “Employee Plan”) which is maintained, administered or contributed to by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate and covers any Employee or Former Employee of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate. Copies of such plans and arrangements (and, if applicable, related trust or funding agreements or insurance policies) and all amendments thereto and written interpretations thereof have been furnished to Acquiror. Such plans are referred to collectively herein as the “Employee Plans.” (b) None of the Company, any of its ERISA Affiliates and any predecessor thereof sponsors, maintains or contributes to, or has in the past sponsored, maintained or contributed to, any Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or any defined benefit plan. (c) None of the Company, any ERISA Affiliate of the Company and any predecessor thereof contributes to, or has in the past contributed to, any Multiemployer Plan, as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA (a “Multiemployer Plan”). (d) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate sponsors any Employee Plans. (e) There is no current or projected Liability in respect of post-employment or post-retirement health or medical or life insurance benefits for retired, former or current Employees, except as required to avoid excise tax under Section 4980B of the Code. (f) As to all Employees Plans: (i) all such Plans comply and have been administered in all material respects in form and in operation with all applicable Laws, all required returns (including without limitation information returns) have been prepared in accordance with all applicable Laws and have been timely filed in accordance with applicable Laws, and neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has received any outstanding written notice from any Governmental or quasi-Governmental Body questioning or challenging such compliance; (ii) all Employee Plans intended to qualify to comply with Section 401 of the Code maintained or previously maintained by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate comply and complied in form and in operation with all applicable requirements of the Code and ERISA, a favorable determination letter has been received from the IRS with respect to each such Plan (or the sponsor of the Plan is entitled to rely on a favorable opinion letter issued to the Plan’s prototype sponsor by the IRS) and no event has occurred that will or could reasonably be expected to give rise to disqualification of any such Plan or to a tax under Section 511 of the Code; (iii) there are no non-exempt “prohibited transactions” (as described in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with respect to any Employee Plan and neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has otherwise engaged in any prohibited transaction; and (iv) there have been no acts or omissions by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate that have given rise to or could reasonably be expected to give rise to material fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Sections 502(c), 502(i) or 4071 of ERISA or Chapter 43 of the Code for which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate may be liable and neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees or any other fiduciary has committed any breach of fiduciary responsibility imposed by ERISA that would subject the Company or any ERISA Affiliate or any of their respective directors, officers or employees to liability under ERISA. (g) All individuals considered by the Company and any ERISA Affiliate to be independent contractors are, and could only be reasonably considered to be, in fact “independent contractors” and are not “employees” or “common law employees” for tax, benefits, wage, labor or any other legal purpose. (h) No Employee is entitled to, nor shall any Employee accrue or receive, additional benefits, services, accelerated rights to payment of benefits or accelerated vesting, whether pursuant to any Employee Plan or otherwise, including the right to receive any parachute payment as defined in Section 280G of the Code, or become entitled to severance, termination allowance or other similar payments as a result of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereunder. (i) All options that have been granted by the Company to Employees that purport to be “incentive stock options” under the Code comply with all applicable requirements necessary to qualify for such tax status, and no option is subject to the provisions of Section 409A of the Code. (j) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate maintains any “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code.