Preamble | 1 | |
ARTICLE 1: DEFINITIONS | 2 | |
ARTICLE 2: ELIGIBILITY AND MEMBERSHIP | 12 | |
2.01 | Eligibility | 12 |
2.02 | Membership | 13 |
2.03 | Reemployment of Former Employees and Former Members | 13 |
2.04 | Termination of Membership | 14 |
2.05 | Automatic Membership | 14 |
ARTICLE 3: CONTRIBUTIONS | 16 | |
3.01 | Deferred Cash Contributions | 16 |
3.02 | Catch-Up Contributions | 17 |
3.03 | Automatic Contribution Arrangement. | 17 |
3.04 | Roth Deferred Cash Contributions | 19 |
3.05 | After-Tax Contributions | 20 |
3.06 | Limitation on Deferred Cash and After-Tax Contributions | 20 |
3.07 | Employer Matching Contributions | 20 |
3.07A | CW Savings Contributions | 21 |
3.08 | Rollover Contributions | 21 |
3.09 | Change in Contributions | 23 |
3.1 | Suspension of Contributions | 23 |
3.11 | Actual Deferral Percentage Test | 24 |
3.12 | Contribution Percentage Test | 25 |
3.13 | Additional Discrimination Testing Provisions | 27 |
3.14 | Maximum Annual Additions | 28 |
3.15 | Return of Contributions | 30 |
3.16 | Contributions during Periods of Military Leave | 31 |
3.17 | Earnings on Distribution of Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions | 32 |
ARTICLE 4: INVESTMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS | 33 | |
4.01 | Investment Funds | 33 |
4.02 | Investment of Members' Accounts | 33 |
4.03 | Responsibility for Investments | 33 |
4.04 | Change of Election for Current and Future Contributions | 33 |
4.05 | Reallocation of Accounts Among the Funds | 34 |
4.06 | Limitations Imposed by Contract | 34 |
4.07 | ERISA Section 404(c) Compliance | 34 |
4.08 | Investment Advice Arrangement | 34 |
ARTICLE 5: VALUATION OF THE ACCOUNTS | 35 | |
5.01 | Valuation of Member Accounts | 35 |
5.02 | Right to Change Procedures | 35 |
5.03 | Statement of Accounts | 35 |
ARTICLE 6: VESTED PORTION OF ACCOUNTS | 36 | |
6.01 | Member Account, Deferred Account, Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account and Rollover Contributions Account | 36 |
6.02 | Employer Account | 36 |
6.03 | Disposition of Forfeitures | 38 |
ARTICLE 7: WITHDRAWALS WHILE STILL EMPLOYED | 40 | |
7.01 | Withdrawal of After-Tax Contributions | 40 |
7.02 | Withdrawal of Rollover Contributions Account | 40 |
7.02A | Withdrawal of Certain Contributions Under the EMS Plan | 40 |
7.03 | Withdrawal After Age 59½ | 40 |
7.04 | Hardship Withdrawal | 40 |
7.05 | Procedures and Restrictions | 42 |
7.06 | Determination of Vested Portion of Employer Account | 42 |
7.07 | Separate Contracts. | 43 |
7.08 | Active Military Duty Withdrawals. | 43 |
ARTICLE 8: LOANS TO MEMBERS | 44 | |
8.01 | Availability | 44 |
8.02 | Terms and Conditions | 44 |
ARTICLE 9: DISTRIBUTION OF ACCOUNTS UPON TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY OR DEATH | 45 | |
9.01 | Eligibility | 45 |
9.02 | Form of Distribution | 45 |
9.03 | Date of Payment of Distribution | 46 |
9.04 | Age 70½ Required Distribution | 47 |
9.05 | Status of Accounts Pending Distribution | 49 |
9.06 | Proof of Death and Right of Beneficiary or Other Person | 49 |
9.07 | Distribution Limitation | 49 |
9.08 | Direct Rollover of Certain Distributions | 49 |
9.09 | Waiver of Notice Period | 51 |
9.1 | Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 | 51 |
ARTICLE 10: ADMINISTRATION OF PLAN | 52 | |
10.01 | Appointment of Administrative Committee | 52 |
10.02 | Duties of Administrative Committee | 52 |
10.03 | Individual Accounts | 53 |
10.04 | Meetings | 53 |
10.05 | Action of Majority | 53 |
10.06 | Compensation and Bonding | 53 |
10.07 | Establishment of Rules | 53 |
10.08 | Prudent Conduct | 54 |
10.09 | Service in More Than One Fiduciary Capacity | 54 |
10.1 | Limitation of Liability | 54 |
10.11 | Indemnification | 54 |
10.12 | Claims Review Procedure | 54 |
10.13 | Named Fiduciary | 55 |
ARTICLE 11: MANAGEMENT OF FUNDS | 56 | |
11.01 | Trust Agreement | 56 |
11.02 | Exclusive Benefit Rule | 56 |
11.03 | Investment, Management and Control | 56 |
11.04 | Payment of Certain Expenses | 56 |
ARTICLE 12: AMENDMENT, MERGER AND TERMINATION | 57 | |
12.01 | Amendment of Plan | 57 |
12.02 | Merger, Consolidation or Transfer | 57 |
12.03 | Additional Participating Employers | 57 |
12.04 | Termination of Plan | 58 |
ARTICLE 13: GENERAL PROVISIONS | 60 | |
13.01 | Nonalienation | 60 |
13.02 | Conditions of Employment Not Affected by Plan | 60 |
13.03 | Facility of Payment | 61 |
13.04 | Information | 61 |
13.05 | Top-Heavy Provisions | 61 |
13.06 | Written Elections | 63 |
13.07 | Construction | 63 |
13.08 | Electronic Provision of Notices to Members | 64 |
13.09 | Prevention of Escheat | 64 |
13.1 | Blackout Periods | 64 |
ARTICLE 14: HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF | 65 | |
14.01 | Qualified Individual. | 65 |
14.02 | Hurricane Katrina Distribution. | 65 |
14.03 | No Rollover Treatment. | 66 |
14.04 | Recontributions. | 66 |
14.05 | Loan Amount. | 66 |
14.06 | Documentation Requirements. | 67 |
APPENDIX A: SPECIAL RULES APPLICABLE TO ACQUIRED ENTITIES | 69 |
1.01 | "Accounts" means the Employer Account, the Member Account, the Deferred Account, the Catch-Up Account, the Rollover Contributions Account, the Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account and the Roth Catch-Up Account. |
1.02 | “Acquired Forfeiture Account” means the account credited with forfeitures transferred to the Plan from defined contribution plans of entities that were acquired by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer. |
1.02A | “Acquired Member” means any Member who is a Cimarron Employee described in paragraph 26(a) of Appendix A, Williams Employee described in paragraph 27(a) of Appendix A, Exlar Employee described in paragraph 28(a) of Appendix A, Parvus Employee described in paragraph 29(a) of Appendix A, or Arens Employee described in paragraph 30(a) of Appendix A. |
1.03 | "Actual Deferral Percentage" means, with respect to a specified group of Employees, the average of the ratios, calculated separately for each Employee in that group, of |
(a) | the amount of Deferred Cash Contributions made pursuant to Section 3.01 for a Plan Year and the amount of Roth Deferred Cash Contributions made pursuant to Section 3.04 for a Plan Year (including Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions returned to a Highly Compensated Employee under Section 3.01(c) and Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions returned to any Employee pursuant to Section 3.01(d)), to |
(b) | the Employees' Statutory Compensation for that entire Plan Year, provided that, upon direction of the Administrative Committee, Statutory Compensation for a Plan Year shall only be counted if received during the period an Employee is, or is eligible to become, a Member. |
(a) | relate to compensation that either would have been received by the Employee in the Plan Year but for the deferral election, or are attributable to services performed by the Employee in the Plan Year and would have been received by the Employee within 2½ months after the close of the Plan Year but for the deferral election, |
(b) | are allocated to the Employee as of a date within that Plan Year and the allocation is not contingent on the participation or performance of service after such date, and |
(c) | are actually paid to the Trustee no later than 12 months after the end of the Plan Year to which the contributions relate. |
1.04 | “Administrative Committee” means the person(s) appointed by the Company to act on behalf of the Company as the sponsor and ”named fiduciary” (within the meaning of Section 402(a)(2) of ERISA), as appropriate, with respect to Plan administrative matters. When performing any activity or exercising any authority under the provisions of the Plan, the Administrative Committee shall be deemed to act solely on behalf of the Company, and not in an individual capacity. |
1.05 | "Affiliated Employer" means any company which is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the Code) which also includes as a member the Employer; any trade or business under common control (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code) with the Employer; any organization (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of an affiliated service group (as defined in Section 414(m) of the Code) which includes the Employer; and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations under Section 414(o) of the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of Sections 1.31 and 3.14, the definitions in Sections 414(b) and (c) of the Code shall be modified by substituting the phrase "more than 50 percent" for the phrase "at least 80 percent" each place it appears in Section 1563(a)(1) of the Code. |
1.06 | "After-Tax Contributions" means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.05. |
1.07 | "Annual Dollar Limit" means the dollar amount as adjusted from time to time for cost of living in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code ($265,000 in 2015). |
1.08 | "Annuity Starting Date" means the first day of the first period for which an amount is paid, as an annuity or in any other form, following a Member's retirement or termination of employment. |
1.09 | "Beneficiary" means any person or persons designated by a Member to receive any benefits payable in the event of the Member's death. However, a married Member's spouse shall be deemed to be his Beneficiary unless or until he elects another Beneficiary with Spousal Consent. If no Beneficiary designation is in effect at the Member's death, or if no person or persons so designated survives the Member, the Member's surviving spouse, if any, shall be deemed to be the Beneficiary; otherwise the Beneficiary shall be the personal representative of the estate of the Member. |
1.10 | "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. |
1.11 | “Casual Employee” means an Employee who, under the Employer’s generally applicable payroll and human resources practices, |
(a) | is hired for an assignment of a limited nature and duration, which shall not exceed 90 days; and |
(b) | is classified as being in inactive status upon the completion of an assignment, subject to recall for another assignment of limited nature and duration. |
1.12 | "Catch-Up Account" means the account credited with the Catch-Up Contributions made on a Member's behalf and earnings on those contributions. |
1.13 | "Catch-Up Contributions" means amounts contributed to the Plan that satisfy the requirements of Section 3.02. |
1.14 | "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. |
1.15 | "Compensation" means the total of an Employee's compensation paid by the Employer during any Plan Year prior to any reduction for deferred compensation under Section 401(k) of the Code, or pursuant to a cafeteria plan under Section 125 of the Code, or pursuant to a qualified transportation fringe under Section 132(f) of the Code. |
1.16 | "Contribution Percentage" means, with respect to a specified group of Employees, the average of the ratios, calculated separately for each Employee in that group, of |
(a) | the sum of the Employee's After-Tax Contributions and Matching Contributions for that Plan Year, to |
(b) | his Statutory Compensation for that entire Plan Year; provided that, upon direction of the Administrative Committee, Statutory Compensation for a Plan Year shall only be counted if received during the period an Employee is, or is eligible to become, a Member. |
1.16A | “Co-Op Student Employee” means an Employee who, under the Employer’s generally applicable payroll and human resources practices, |
(a) | is a college or university student; and |
(b) | receives academic credit for his employment with the Employer. |
1.16B | “CW Savings Contributions” means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.07A. |
1.17 | "Deferred Account" means the account credited with the Deferred Cash Contributions made on a Member's behalf and earnings on those contributions. |
1.18 | "Deferred Cash Contributions" means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.01. |
1.19 | “Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions” means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.03. |
1.20 | "Disability" means total and permanent disability. A Member shall be deemed to be totally and permanently disabled when, on the basis of medical evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Committee, he is found to be wholly and permanently prevented from engaging in any occupation or employment for wages or profit as a result of bodily injury or disease, either occupationally or non-occupationally caused, but not as a result of bodily injury or disease which originated from service in the Armed Forces of any country. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a Member employed by an Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, the term “Disability” means a Member’s inability, due to injury or sickness, to engage in any gainful occupation for which he is reasonably fitted by education, training or experience, provided he has completed at least 10 years of Vesting Service. |
1.21 | "Earnings" means the amount of income to be returned with any excess deferrals, excess contributions, or excess aggregate contributions under Section 3.01, 3.11 or 3.12. Income on excess deferrals and excess contributions shall be determined (a) by multiplying allocable gain or loss on the Deferred Account and Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account (excluding Catch-Up Contributions, Roth Catch-Up Contributions and income attributable to Catch-Up Contributions and Roth Catch-Up Contributions) for the Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the excess deferrals or excess contributions, as the case may be, for the Plan Year and the denominator of which is the sum of the balances of the Deferred Account and the Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account at the end of the Plan Year, disregarding any income or loss occurring during the Plan Year, and (b) by adding to the amount determined under clause (a) 10 percent of the amount determined under clause (a) for Plan Years beginning prior to January 1, 2008, multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Plan Year and the date of the distribution, counting the month of distribution if the distribution occurs after the 15th day of the month. Income on excess aggregate contributions shall be determined in a similar manner by substituting the sum of the allocable gain or loss on the Employer Account and Member Account for the Deferred Account and Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account, and the excess aggregate contributions for the excess deferrals and excess contributions in the preceding sentence. |
1.22 | "Effective Date" means, as to the Plan, July 1, 1982. The Effective Date of this amendment and restatement of the Plan is January 1, 2015, except as otherwise provided herein, or as required by applicable law. The Effective Date of the EMS Plan was January 1, 2004. |
1.23 | "Employee" means a person employed by the Employer who receives stated compensation other than a pension, severance pay, retainer, or fee under contract; however, |
1.24 | "Employer" means Curtiss-Wright Corporation or any successor by merger, purchase or otherwise, with respect to its employees; or any other company participating in the Plan as provided in Section 12.03, with respect to its employees. |
1.25 | "Employer Account" means the account credited with Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions and earnings on those contributions. The Administrative Committee shall establish such separate subaccounts within the Employer Account as may be necessary to properly account for Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions. |
1.25A | “EMS Plan” means the Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation Savings Plan, as constituted on and before December 31, 2014. |
1.26 | "Enrollment Date" means the Effective Date and the first day of any payroll period following that date. |
1.27 | "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. |
1.28 | "Fund" or "Investment Fund" means the fund or funds in which contributions to the Plan are invested in accordance with Article 4. |
1.29 | "Highly Compensated Employee" means for a Plan Year any employee of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer (whether or not eligible for membership in the Plan) who: |
(a) | was a 5 percent owner of the Employer (as defined in Section 416(i) of the Code) for such Plan Year or the prior Plan Year, or |
(b) | for the preceding Plan Year received Statutory Compensation in excess of $120,000, and was among the highest 20 percent of employees of the Employer for the preceding Plan Year when ranked by Statutory Compensation paid for that year, excluding, for the purpose of such determination, employees described in Section 414(q)(5) of the Code. The $120,000 dollar amount in the preceding sentence shall be adjusted from time to time for cost of living in accordance with Section 414(q)(1) of the Code. |
1.30 | "Hour of Service" means, with respect to any applicable computation period, |
(a) | each hour for which the employee is paid or entitled to payment for the performance of duties for the Employer or an Affiliated Employer; |
(b) | each hour for which the employee is paid or entitled to payment by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer on account of a period during which no duties are performed, whether or not the employment relationship has terminated, due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence, but not more than 501 hours for any single continuous period; and |
(c) | each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer, excluding any hour credited under (a) or (b), which shall be credited to the computation period or periods to which the award, agreement or payment pertains rather than to the computation period in which the award, agreement or payment is made. |
1.31 | "Leased Employee" means any person (other than a common law employee of the Employer) who, pursuant to an agreement between the Employer and any other person (“leasing organization”), has performed services for the Employer or any related persons determined in accordance with Section 414(n)(6) of the Code on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year and such services are performed under the primary direction of or control by the Employer. In the case of any person who is a Leased Employee before or after a period of service as an Employee, the entire period during which he has performed services as a Leased Employee shall be counted as service as an Employee |
1.32 | "Matching Contributions" means (a) amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.07(a) prior to September 1, 1994, at which time such Matching Contributions ceased, (b) Employer contributions described in Appendix A that constitute matching contributions within the meaning of Code Section 401(m)(4) and Treasury regulations thereunder, and (c) amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.07(c) on or after January 1, 2014. The term Matching Contributions shall also refer to amounts transferred to the Plan in a transaction described in Section 12.02 that had been accounted for as matching contributions under the terms of the transferor plan. |
1.33 | "Member" means any person included in the membership of the Plan as provided in Article 2. |
1.34 | “Covered Member” means any eligible Employee who is covered by the Automatic Contribution Arrangement under Section 3.03. |
1.34A | “Frozen Member” means any eligible Employee (i) whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or after February 1, 2010, for whom benefit accruals under Article 4 of the CWC Component of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Retirement Plan have ceased pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.02 of such Plan, (ii) whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or before January 31, 2010, but for whom benefit accruals under Article 6 of the CWC Component of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Retirement Plan have ceased pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.01(c) or (e) of such Plan, (iii) whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or before January 31, 2010, and for whom benefits were accruing under only Article 4 of the CWC Component of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Retirement Plan pursuant to the provisions of Schedule J of such Plan, (iv) whose date of hire, rehire or transfer to an Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan was on or before December 31, 2013, and who did not elect to participate in the EMD Component of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Retirement Plan after January 1, 2014, by means of a timely-filed election that was effective on or before January 1, 2014, or (v) whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or after January 1, 2014, and who is not eligible to accrue benefits under Article 4 of the CWC Component of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Retirement Plan pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.01(a) of such Plan. |
1.35 | "Member Account" means the account credited with the After-Tax Contributions and earnings on those contributions. |
1.36 | “Non-highly Compensated Employee” means for any Plan Year an employee of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer who is not a Highly Compensated Employee for that Plan Year. |
1.37 | "Plan" means the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Savings and Investment Plan as set forth in this document or as amended from time to time. The Plan is a continuation of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Employee Savings Plan and the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan, which plans were merged effective September 1, 1994. The Plan is also a continuation of certain other plans which have been merged with and into the Plan from time to time. |
1.38 | "Plan Year" means the 12-month period beginning on any January 1. |
1.39 | “Rollover Contributions Account” means, except as provided below, the account credited with Rollover Contributions made by a Member and earnings on those contributions. Before-tax amounts rolled over from an eligible deferred compensation plan under Section 457(b) of the Code that is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state shall be accounted for separately within the Rollover Contributions Account. Amounts attributable to Roth Deferred Cash Contributions directly rolled over from a plan qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code shall be credited to a Member's Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account. |
1.40 | "Rollover Contributions" mean amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.08. |
1.41 | “Roth Catch-Up Account” means the account credited with the Roth Catch-Up Contributions made on a Member's behalf and earnings on those contributions. |
1.42 | “Roth Catch-Up Contributions” means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.04 that are (a) designated irrevocably by the Member at the time the election is made as a Roth Catch-Up Contribution that is being made in lieu of all or a portion of the Catch-Up Contributions the Member is otherwise eligible to make under the Plan; and (b) treated by the Employer as includible in the Member’s income at the time the Member would have received that amount in cash if the Member had not made an election. |
1.43 | “Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account” means the account credited with the Roth Deferred Cash Contributions made on a Member's behalf and earnings on those contributions. |
1.44 | “Roth Deferred Cash Contributions” means amounts contributed pursuant to Section 3.04 that are (a) designated irrevocably by the Member at the time the election is made as a Roth Deferred Cash Contribution that is being made in lieu of all or a portion of the Deferred Cash Contributions the Member is otherwise eligible to make under the Plan; and (b) treated by the Employer as includible in the Member’s income at the time the Member would have received that amount in cash if the Member had not made an election. |
1.45 | "Severance Date" means, solely for purposes of determining an employee's Vesting Service under Section 1.54, the earlier of: |
(b) | the first anniversary of the date on which an employee is first absent from service, with or without pay, for any reason such as vacation, sickness, disability, layoff or leave of absence. |
1.46 | "Spousal Consent" means the written consent of a Member's spouse to the Member's election of a specified form of benefit or designation of a specified Beneficiary. The spouse's consent shall be witnessed by a Plan representative or notary public and shall acknowledge the effect on the spouse of the Member's election. The requirement for spousal consent may be waived by the Administrative Committee if it believes there is no spouse, or the |
1.47 | "Statutory Compensation" means wages, salaries, and other amounts paid in respect of an employee for services actually rendered to an Employer or an Affiliated Employer, including by way of example, overtime, bonuses, and commissions, but excluding deferred compensation, stock options, and other distributions which receive special tax benefits under the Code. For purposes of determining Highly Compensated Employees under Section 1.29 and key employees under Section 13.05(a)(iii), Statutory Compensation shall include amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are not includible in the gross income of the employee under Sections 125, 132(f), 402(e)(3), 402(h), or 403(b) of the Code. For all other purposes, Statutory Compensation shall also include the amounts referred to in the preceding sentence, unless the Administrative Committee directs otherwise for a particular Plan Year. Statutory Compensation shall not exceed the Annual Dollar Limit. |
1.48 | "Subsidiary" means any corporation controlled by Curtiss-Wright Corporation or by another subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. |
1.49 | “Temporary Employee” means an Employee who, under the Employer’s generally applicable payroll and human resources practices, |
(a) | is hired for a specific assignment of limited scope that will have a duration of at least 90 days; and |
(b) | is hired subject to the condition that he will be terminated upon completion of such specific assignment. |
1.50 | "Trust" or "Trust Fund" means the fund established by the Board of Directors as part of the Plan into which contributions are to be made and from which benefits are to be paid in accordance with the terms of the Plan. |
1.51 | "Trustee" means the trustee or trustees holding the funds of the Plan as provided in Article 11. |
1.52 | "Valuation Date" means the last business day of each calendar month or such more frequent dates as the Administrative Committee shall establish. |
1.53 | "Vested Portion" means the portion of the Accounts in which the Member has a nonforfeitable interest as provided in Article 6 or, if applicable, Section 13.05. |
1.54 | "Vesting Service" means, with respect to any employee, his period of employment with the Employer or any Affiliated Employer, whether or not as an Employee, beginning on the date he first completes an Hour of Service and ending on his Severance Date, provided that: |
(a) | if his employment terminates and he is reemployed within one year of the earlier of (i) his date of termination or (ii) the first day of an absence from service immediately preceding his date of termination, the period between |
(b) | if he is absent from the service of the Employer or any Affiliated Employer because of service in the Armed Forces of the United States and he returns to service with the Employer or an Affiliated Employer having applied to return while his reemployment rights were protected by law, the absence shall be included in his Vesting Service; |
(c) | if he is on a leave of absence approved by the Employer, under rules uniformly applicable to all Employees similarly situated, the Employer may authorize the inclusion in his Vesting Service of any portion of that period of leave which is not included in his Vesting Service under (a) or (b) above; and |
(d) | if his employment terminates and he is reemployed, his Vesting Service after reemployment shall be aggregated with his previous period or periods of Vesting Service. |
1.55 | "Year of Eligibility Service" means, with respect to any employee, the 12-month period of employment with the Employer or any Affiliated Employer, whether or not as an Employee, beginning on the date he first completes an Hour of Service upon hire or rehire, or any Plan Year beginning after that date, in which he first completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service. |
(a) | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, each Employee shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date coinciding with or following the date he completes one Year of Eligibility Service. |
(b) | Employees who were formerly employed by entities that were acquired, or are employed at any operations or facilities that were acquired, by the Employer shall be eligible to participate in the Plan from the date of such acquisition except as otherwise may be provided in Appendix A, and shall be subject to the special eligibility rules (if any) set forth in Appendix A with respect to such Employees. |
(c) | Effective as of January 1, 2014, and notwithstanding the provisions of Section2.01(a), but subject to Appendix A, each regular, full-time Employee, other than a member of a unit of Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, with the exception of (i) the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of Williams Controls, Inc. and (ii) effective as of December 31, 2014, the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of the Engineered Pump Division of the Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, shall be eligible to become a Member as of any Enrollment Date following the date on which he became an Employee. Unless mandated otherwise by the Employer’s personnel practices, a regular, full-time Employee is any Employee who is hired on other than a part-time, seasonal, casual |
(d) | Any Employee on December 31, 2014 who was a participant in the EMS Plan immediately prior thereto and any individual who was employed by the Employer’s Benshaw business unit on and before June 30, 2014 and who was a participant in the EMS Plan immediately prior to December 31, 2014 shall become a Member on the next following Enrollment Date. |
(e) | Effective as of July 1, 2015, and notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 2.01(a) and (c), but subject to Appendix A, each Employee, other than a member of a unit of Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, with the exception of (i) the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of Williams Controls, Inc. and (ii) the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of the Engineered Pump Division of the Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, shall be eligible to become a Member as of any Enrollment Date following the date on which he became an Employee. In no event shall a Casual Employee, Co-Op Student Employee or Temporary Employee be eligible to become a Member. |
(a) | designates the percentage of Compensation he wishes to contribute to the Plan under Section 3.05 or makes the election described in Section 3.01, 3.02, or 3.04, or any combination thereof.; |
(b) | authorizes the Employer to make regular payroll deductions or to reduce his Compensation, or both; |
(d) | makes an investment election. |
(a) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, any eligible Employee (as provided under Section 2.01(c)), and unless otherwise excluded under paragraph 2.05(c), whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or after January 1, 2009 and who has not made an affirmative election to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become a Covered Member on the first Enrollment Date which is on or about 45 days after his date of hire, rehire or acquisition, or the date he actually completes a Year of Eligibility Service (if applicable, pursuant to Section 2.01(c)). |
(b) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, any eligible Employee whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or before December 31, 2008 and who has not affirmatively elected to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become a Covered Member on the first Enrollment Date which is on or about 45 days after January 1, 2010. |
(c) | (i) Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to contrary, any eligible Employee of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. whose date of hire, rehire, or acquisition was on or before December 31, 2008 and who has not affirmatively elected to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become a Covered Member as of March 2, 2011. |
(ii) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, any eligible Employee who is employed by Metal Improvement Company whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or after January 1, 2010 and who has not made an affirmative election to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become a Covered Member on the first Enrollment Date which is on or about 45 days after his date of hire, rehire or acquisition. Any eligible Employee of Metal Improvement Company whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition was on or before December 31, 2009 and who has not affirmatively elected to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become a Covered Member as of November 30, 2011. |
(d) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, any eligible Employee (as provided under Sections 2.01(c) and (e)), and unless otherwise excluded under paragraph 2.05(c), whose date of hire, rehire or acquisition is on or after July 1, 2015 and who has not made an affirmative election to become a Member (or affirmatively declined to become a Member) pursuant to Section 2.02 shall become |
(a) | A Member may elect on his application filed under Section 2.02 to reduce his Compensation payable while a Member by at least 0.5% and not more than the contribution permitted by law, in multiples of 0.5%, and have that amount contributed to the Plan by the Employer as Deferred Cash Contributions. Deferred Cash Contributions shall be further limited as provided below and in Sections 3.11, 3.13 and 3.14. Any Deferred Cash Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee as soon as practicable. |
(b) | In no event shall the Member's Deferred Cash Contributions and similar contributions made on his behalf by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer to all plans, contracts or arrangements subject to the provisions of Section 401(a)(30) of the Code in any calendar year exceed: the amount in effect for such calendar year under Section 402(g)(1) of the Code, as adjusted, if applicable, in accordance with Section 402(g)(4) of the Code. |
(c) | In the event that the sum of the Deferred Cash Contributions and similar contributions to any other qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer exceeds the dollar limitation in Section 3.01(b) for any calendar year, the Member shall be deemed to have elected a return of Deferred Cash Contributions in excess of such limit ("excess deferrals") from this Plan. The excess deferrals, together with Earnings, shall be returned to the Member no later than the April 15 following the end of the calendar year in which the excess deferrals were made. The amount of excess deferrals to be returned for any calendar year shall be reduced by any Deferred Cash Contributions previously returned to the Member under Section 3.11 for that calendar year. |
(d) | If a Member makes tax-deferred contributions under another qualified defined contribution plan maintained by an employer other than the Employer or an Affiliated Employer for any calendar year and those contributions when added to his Deferred Cash Contributions exceed the dollar limitation under Section 3.01(b) for that calendar year, the Member may allocate all or a portion of such excess deferrals to this Plan. In that event, such excess deferrals, together with Earnings, shall be returned to the Member no later than the April 15 following the end of the calendar |
(a) | A Member satisfies the requirements of this paragraph for a Plan Year if: |
(i) | his 50th birthday is coincident with or prior to the last day of the Plan Year; and |
(ii) | either (A) the Deferred Cash Contributions made on his behalf for the Plan Year have reached the applicable dollar limitation for the calendar year coincident with such Plan Year, as set forth in Section 3.01(b) or (B) his percentage election, as in effect in accordance with Section 3.01(a) is equal to any percentage limitation imposed on such election by the Plan. |
(b) | A Member described in subsection (a) may elect to make Catch-Up Contributions in any percentage from 1% to 25% of his Compensation. |
(c) | Any Catch-Up Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee as soon as practicable and shall be allocated to the Member’s Catch-Up Account. |
(d) | Catch-Up Contributions made on a Member's behalf shall be limited to $6,000, as adjusted in accordance with Section 414(v)(2)(C) of the Code. In no event shall the Member's Catch-Up Contributions for a Plan Year exceed the excess of his Deferred Cash Contributions for such Plan Year over his Statutory Compensation for such Plan Year. |
(e) | The provisions of this Section shall be subject to the requirements of Section 414(v) of the Code and Regulations thereunder. |
(a) | Effective January 1, 2009, Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions will be made on behalf of Covered Members who do not have an affirmative election in effect regarding Deferred Cash Contributions. The amount of Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions made for a Covered Member each pay period is equal to 3% multiplied by the Covered Member’s Compensation for that pay period. |
(b) | A Covered Member will have a reasonable opportunity after receipt of the notice required described in (d) below to make an affirmative election regarding Deferred Cash Contributions (either to have no Deferred Cash Contributions made or to have a different amount of Deferred Cash Contributions made) before Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions are made on the Covered Member’s behalf. Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions being made on behalf of a Covered Member will cease as soon as administratively feasible after the Covered Member makes an affirmative election. |
(c) | Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions will be reduced or stopped to meet the limitations under Sections 401(a)(17), 402(g) and 415 of the Code and to satisfy any suspension period required after a hardship distribution. |
(d) | At least 30 days, but not more than 90 days, before the beginning of the Plan Year, the Employer will provide each Covered Member a comprehensive notice of the Member’s rights and obligations under this Automatic Contribution Arrangement, written in a manner calculated to be understood by the average Covered Member. If an eligible Employee becomes a Covered Member after the 90th day before the beginning of the Plan Year and does not receive the notice for that reason, the notice will be provided within a reasonable period of time and in accordance with Section 1.414(w)-1 of the Income Tax Regulations. |
(i) | The amount of Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions that will be made on the Covered Member’s behalf in the absence of an affirmative election; |
(ii) | The Covered Member’s right to elect to have no Deferred Cash Contributions made on his behalf or to have a different amount of Deferred Cash Contributions made; |
(iii) | How Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions will be invested in the absence of the investment instructions; and |
(iv) | The Covered Member’s right to make a withdrawal of Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions and the procedures for making such a withdrawal. |
(e) | No later than 75 days after the recordkeeper first receives a Covered Member’s Automatic Deferred Cash Contribution, the Covered Member may request a distribution of his Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions. In no event may a Covered Member request a distribution of his Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions later than 90 days after Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions are first withheld from a Covered Member’s pay. No spousal consent is required for such a withdrawal. The amount to be distributed from the Plan upon the Covered Member’s request is equal to the amount of Automatic Deferred Cash Contributions made through the earlier of (i) the pay date for the second payroll period that begins after the Covered Member’s withdrawal request and (ii) the first pay date that occurs after 30 days after the Covered Member’s request, adjusted to reflect any investment gains or losses attributable to those contributions through the date of distribution. Any fee charged to the Covered Member for the withdrawal may not be greater than any other fee charged for a cash distribution. Unless the Covered Member |
(a) | Effective January 1, 2010, a Member may elect on his application filed under Section 2.02 to irrevocably designate Deferred Cash Contributions (under Section 3.01) and Catch-Up Contributions (under Section 3.02) as Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Catch-Up Contributions, respectively. Any Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Catch-Up Contributions shall be invested in one or more Investment Funds, as authorized by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or its designees, subject to (b) below. |
(b) | The Plan will maintain a separate record of the amount of Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Catch-Up Contributions in each Member’s account. Contributions and withdrawals of Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Catch-Up Contributions will be credited and debited to the Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account and the Roth Catch-Up Contribution Account maintained for each Member. Gains, losses, and other credits or charges must be separately allocated on a reasonable and consistent basis to each Member’s Roth Deferred Cash Contribution Account, the Roth Catch-Up Contribution Account and the Member’s other accounts under the Plan. |
(c) | No contributions other than Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and properly attributable earnings will be credited to each Member’s Roth Deferred Cash Contributions Account. No contributions other than Roth Catch-Up Contributions and properly attributable earnings will be credited to each Member’s Roth Catch-Up Account. |
(d) | Unless specifically stated otherwise, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions will be treated as Deferred Cash Contributions for all purposes under the Plan, including hardship distributions under Section 7.04 and loans under Article 8. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Roth Catch-Up Contributions will be treated as Catch-Up Contributions for all purposes under the Plan. |
(e) | In the case of a distribution of excess contributions under Section 3.11, a Highly Compensated Employee may designate the extent to which the excess contribution is composed of Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions but only to the extent such types of contributions were made for the year. If the |
(a) | The Employer contributed, until August 31, 1994, on behalf of each of its Members who elected to make After-Tax Contributions, Matching Contributions in an amount equal to 50% of the first 6% of the After-Tax Contributions made by the Member to the Plan during each payroll period. |
(b) | From and after September 1, 1994, no Matching Contributions shall be made to the Plan except as otherwise specified in Appendix A. |
(c) | From and after January 1, 2014, the Employer shall contribute on behalf of each of its Frozen Members, other than a member of a unit of Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, with the exception of (i) the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of Williams Controls, Inc. and (ii) effective as of December 31, 2014, a collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of the Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, and Acquired Members who elected to make Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After-Tax Contributions, Matching Contributions in an amount equal to 50% of the Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After-Tax Contributions made by the Member to the Plan that do not exceed the first 6% of the Member’s Compensation during each payroll period. In no event shall the amount of Matching Contributions made under this Section 3.07(c) equal more than 3% of a Member’s Compensation for the payroll period. Matching Contributions shall first be made with respect to Deferred Cash Contributions, and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, then with respect to After-Tax Contributions. |
(d) | Matching Contributions described in this Section 3.07 shall be paid in cash to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible following each payroll period but in no |
(a) | For any Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 2014, the Employer may make CW Savings Contributions in an amount to be determined by the Employer, as of the last day of the Plan Year, on behalf of each Frozen Member, other than a member of a unit of Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, with the exception of (i) the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of Williams Controls, Inc. and (ii) effective for any Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 2015, the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of the Engineered Pump Division of the Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, and Acquired Member who is described in the following sentence. Any CW Savings Contributions shall be allocated to the Employer Account of each eligible Member employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year who had completed a Year of Eligibility Service during the Plan Year (and, for the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2015, each eligible Member described in Section 6.02(a)(vii) and (viii)) and such allocation shall be based on the ratio that each such Member’s Compensation bears to the total Compensation of all such Members for the Plan Year. In no event, however, shall the portion of the CW Savings Contributions allocated on behalf of any Member described in the preceding sentence for any Plan Year exceed 3% of such Member’s Compensation for the Plan Year. (b) CW Savings Contributions described in this Section 3.07A shall be paid in cash to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible following each Plan Year, if applicable, but in any event no later than the date required by applicable law in order to permit the Employer a deduction for such contributions for its taxable year. CW Savings Contributions may be paid whether or not the Employer has current profits or accumulated earnings. |
(a) | For purposes of this Section, “eligible retirement plan” means: |
(i) | a qualified plan described in Section 401(a) of the Code; |
(ii) | an annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code; |
(iii) | an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity of the Member described in Section 408(a) or 408(b) of the Code which contains only amounts that were originally distributed from a qualified plan described in Section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code (i.e., a “conduit IRA”); |
(iv) | an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code; |
(v) | an eligible plan under Section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, a political subdivision of a state, or an agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state; and |
(vi) | an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity of the Employee described in Section 408(a) or 408(b) of the Code that may contain amounts other than amounts that were originally distributed from a qualified plan described in Section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code (i.e., a "traditional IRA"). |
(b) | Such Rollover Contribution may be received in either of the following ways: |
(i) | The Plan may accept such amount as a direct rollover of an eligible rollover distribution from an eligible retirement plan; or |
(ii) | The Plan may accept such amount directly from the Member provided such amount: |
(A) | was distributed to the Member by an eligible retirement plan; |
(B) | is received by the Plan on or before the 60th day after the day it was received by the Member; and |
(C) | would otherwise be includible in gross income. |
(a) | A Member may suspend his contributions under Section 3.05 and/or revoke his election under Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.04 at any time by giving notice to the Administrative Committee or its designee. The suspension or revocation shall become effective as soon as administratively practicable following the delivery of such notice. |
(b) | A Member who has suspended his contributions under Section 3.05 may elect to have them resumed in accordance with Section 3.05 by giving notice to the Administrative Committee or its designee. A Member who has revoked his election under Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.04 may elect to resume having his Compensation reduced in accordance with Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.04 by giving notice to the Administrative Committee or its designee. |
(c) | In addition to the election opportunity for Automatic Contributions under Section 3.03(b), a Covered Member may make a subsequent election to revoke the Automatic Contribution Arrangement at any time by giving notice to the Administrative Committee or its designee. Such revocation shall become effective as soon as administratively practicable following the delivery of such notice. |
(a) | The actual deferral ratio of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest actual deferral ratio shall be reduced to the extent necessary to meet the actual deferral percentage test or to cause such ratio to equal the actual deferral ratio of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest ratio. This process will be repeated until the actual deferral percentage test is passed. Each ratio shall be rounded to the nearest one one-hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of the Member’s Statutory Compensation. The amount of Deferred Cash Contributions (and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions) made by each Highly Compensated Employee in excess of the amount permitted under his revised deferral ratio shall be added together. This total dollar amount of excess contributions (“excess contributions”) shall then be allocated to some or all Highly Compensated Employees in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) below. |
(b) | The Deferred Cash Contributions of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest dollar amount of Deferred Cash Contributions shall be reduced by the lesser of (i) the amount required to cause that Employee’s Deferred Cash Contributions to equal the dollar amount of the Deferred Cash Contributions of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar amount of Deferred Cash Contributions or (ii) an amount equal to the total excess contributions. This procedure is repeated until all excess contributions are allocated. The amount of excess contributions allocated to a Highly Compensated Employee, together with |
(c) | The excess contributions shall first be treated as Catch-Up Contributions, to the extent possible under Section 3.02, or as Roth Catch-Up Contributions, to the extent possible under Section 3.04. Any remaining excess contributions, together with Earnings thereon, allocated to a Member shall be paid to the Member before the close of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the excess contributions were made, and to the extent practicable, within 2½ months of the close of the Plan Year in which the excess contributions were made. However, any excess contributions for any Plan Year shall be reduced by any Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions previously returned to the Member under Section 3.01 for that Plan Year. |
(d) | Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 6, if any Deferred Cash Contributions (including Roth Deferred Cash Contributions) are distributed to a Highly Compensated Employee pursuant to this Section 3.11, any Matching Contributions which were credited to such Member’s Employer Account in accordance with Section 3.07 as a result of such Deferred Cash Contributions (including Roth Deferred Cash Contributions) having been contributed to the Plan shall be forfeited immediately and applied to reduce Employer contributions or to pay the expenses of the Plan not paid directly by the Employer. |
(a) | The actual contribution ratio of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest actual contribution ratio shall be reduced to the extent necessary to meet the test or to cause such ratio to equal the actual contribution ratio of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest actual contribution ratio. This process will be repeated until the actual contribution percentage test is passed. Each ratio shall be rounded to the nearest one one‑hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of a Member’s Statutory Compensation. The amount of After-Tax Contributions and Matching Contributions, if any, made by or on behalf of each Highly Compensated Employee in excess of the amount permitted under his revised actual contribution ratio shall be added together. This total dollar amount of excess contributions (“excess aggregate contributions”) shall then be allocated to some or all Highly Compensated Employees in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) below. |
(b) | The After-Tax Contributions and Matching Contributions, if any, of the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest dollar amount of such contributions shall be reduced by the lesser of (i) the amount required to cause that Employee’s After-Tax Contributions and Matching Contributions, if any, to equal the dollar amount of such contributions of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar amount of such contributions, or (ii) an amount equal to the total excess aggregate contributions. This procedure is repeated until all excess aggregate contributions are allocated. The amount of excess aggregate contributions allocated to each Highly Compensated Employee, together with Earnings thereon, shall be distributed to the Member. A Highly Compensated Employee who has had the total of his After Tax Contributions and Matching Contributions, if any, reduced in accordance with this Section 3.12 shall have the amount of such reduction applied first to his After-Tax Contributions for the Plan Year and then, to the extent necessary, to his Matching Contributions for the Plan Year. |
(c) | Any payment of excess aggregate contributions shall be made before the close of the Plan Year following the Plan Year for which the excess aggregate contributions were made, and to the extent practicable, any payment shall be made within 2½ months of the close of the Plan Year in which the excess aggregate contributions were made. Excess aggregate contributions distributed to Members in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) above shall be distributed in the following order: (i) from the Member’s Employer Account attributable to Matching Contributions, and (ii) from the Member’s Member Account. |
(d) | Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 6, if any After-Tax Contributions are distributed to a Highly Compensated Employee pursuant to this Section 3.12, any Matching Contributions which were credited to such Member’s Employer Account in accordance with Section 3.07 as a result of such After-Tax Contributions having been contributed to the Plan shall be forfeited immediately and applied to reduce |
(a) | If any Highly Compensated Employee is a member of another qualified plan of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer, including an employee stock ownership plan described in Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code but excluding any other qualified plan which must be mandatorily disaggregated under Section 410(b) of the Code, under which deferred cash contributions or matching contributions are made on behalf of the Highly Compensated Employee or under which the Highly Compensated Employee makes after-tax contributions, the Administrative Committee shall implement rules, which shall be uniformly applicable to all employees similarly situated, to take into account all such contributions for the Highly Compensated Employee made for the applicable Plan Year under all such plans in applying the limitations of Sections 3.11 and 3.12. |
(b) | In the event that this Plan is aggregated with one or more other plans to satisfy the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) of the Code (other than for purposes of the average benefit percentage test) or if one or more other plans is aggregated with this Plan to satisfy the requirements of such sections of the Code, then the provisions of Sections 3.11 and 3.12 shall be applied by determining the Actual Deferral Percentage and Contribution Percentage of employees as if all such plans were a single plan. If this Plan is permissively aggregated with any other plan or plans for purposes of satisfying the provisions of Section 401(k)(3) of the Code, the aggregated plans must also satisfy the provisions of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) of the Code as though they were a single plan. Plans may be aggregated under this paragraph (b) only if they have the same plan year. |
(c) | The Employer may elect to use Deferred Cash Contributions or Roth Deferred Cash Contributions to satisfy the tests described in Section 3.12, provided that the test described in Section 3.11 is met prior to such election and continues to be met following the Employer's election to shift the application of those Deferred Cash Contributions or Roth Deferred Cash Contributions from Section 3.11 to Section 3.12 and provided further that the tests described in Sections 3.11 and 3.12 are both performed on either a prior year testing method or a current year testing method. |
(d) | The Employer may authorize that special "qualified nonelective contributions" shall be made for a Plan Year, which shall be allocated in such amounts and to such Members, who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees, as the Administrative Committee shall determine, provided such allocation procedure complies with the applicable provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(k)-2(a)(6). The Administrative Committee shall establish such separate accounts as may be necessary. Qualified nonelective contributions shall be 100% nonforfeitable when made. Qualified nonelective contributions made before January 1, 1989 and earnings credited thereon as of that date may be withdrawn by a Member while in service only under the provisions of Section 7.03. Any qualified nonelective contributions made on or after January 1, 1989 and any earnings credited on any qualified nonelective contributions after such date shall only be available for |
(e) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, if employees included in a unit of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement are participating in the Plan and not more than 2 percent of such employees are Highly Compensated Employees and professionals, then such employees shall be disregarded in applying the provisions of Section 3.11 and 3.12. However, a separate actual deferral percentage test must be performed for the group of collective bargaining employees on the basis that those employees are included in a separate cash-or-deferred arrangement, provided such group contains at least one Highly Compensated Employee. |
(f) | If the Employer elects to apply the provisions of Section 410(b)(4)(B) to satisfy the requirements of Section 401(k)(3)(A)(i) of the Code, the Employer may apply the provisions of Sections 3.11 and 3.12 by excluding from consideration all eligible employees (other than Highly Compensated Employees) who have not met the minimum age and service requirements of Section 410(a)(1)(A) of the Code. |
(a) | The annual addition to a Member's Accounts for any Plan Year, which shall be considered the "limitation year" for purposes of Section 415 of the Code, when added to the Member's annual addition for that Plan Year under any other qualified defined contribution plan of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer, shall not exceed an amount that is equal to the lesser of (i) 100% of his aggregate remuneration for the Plan Year, or (ii) $53,000, as adjusted in accordance with Section 415(d) of the Code. |
(b) | For purposes of this Section, the "annual addition" to a Member's Accounts under this Plan or any other qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer shall be determined in accordance with (i) and (ii) below: |
(i) | The annual addition shall include all of the following amounts that have been allocated to the Member's Accounts under this Plan or any other qualified defined contribution plan (including a deemed qualified defined contribution plan under a qualified defined benefit plan) maintained by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer: |
(A) | the total Employer contributions made on the Member's behalf by the Employer and all Affiliated Employers; |
(B) | all Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions and After-Tax Contributions, including Deferred Cash Contributions distributed under the provisions of Section 3.11 and After-Tax Contributions distributed under the provisions of Section 3.12; |
(C) | forfeitures, if applicable; and |
(D) | solely for purposes of the dollar limit under clause (ii) of paragraph (a) above, amounts described in Sections 415(l)(1) and 419A(d)(2) allocated to the Member. |
(ii) | The annual addition shall not include: |
(A) | Rollover Contributions; |
(B) | loan repayments made under Article 8; |
(C) | amounts required to be repaid under Section 6.03 as a condition of the restoration of a Member's forfeited Employer Account balance; |
(D) | excess deferrals timely distributed from the Plan under Section 3.01(d); and |
(E) | Catch-Up Contributions (including Roth Catch-Up Contributions). |
(c) | For purposes of this Section, the term “remuneration” with respect to any Member shall mean the wages, salaries, and other amounts paid in respect of such Member by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer for personal services actually rendered, and shall include amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are not includible in the gross income of the employee under Section 125, 132(f), 402(g), 414(v) or 457 of the Code but shall exclude other deferred compensation, stock options, and other distributions which receive special tax benefits under the Code. Remuneration shall also include amounts required to be recognized under the provisions of Section 1.415(c)-2(e) of the Treasury regulations. Remuneration shall not exceed the Annual Dollar Limit. |
(d) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the annual additions to a Member's Accounts exceed the limitation set forth in paragraph (a), corrections shall be made in a manner consistent with the provisions of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2013-12 or any subsequent guidance. |
(a) | If all or part of the Employer's deductions for contributions to the Plan are disallowed by the Internal Revenue Service, the portion of the contributions to which that disallowance applies shall be returned to the Employer without interest but reduced by any investment loss attributable to those contributions, provided that the contribution is returned within one year after the disallowance of deduction. For this purpose, all contributions made by the Employer are expressly declared to be conditioned upon their deductibility under Section 404 of the Code. |
(b) | The Employer may recover without interest the amount of its contributions to the Plan made on account of a mistake of fact, reduced by any investment loss attributable to those contributions, if recovery is made within one year after the date of those contributions. |
(c) | In the event that Deferred Cash Contributions made under Section 3.01 (or Roth Deferred Cash Contributions made under Section 3.04) are returned to the Employer in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the elections to reduce Compensation which were made by Members on whose behalf those contributions were made shall be void retroactively to the beginning of the period for which those contributions were made. The Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions so returned shall be distributed in cash to those Members for whom those contributions were made, provided, however, that if the contributions are returned under the provisions of paragraph (a) above, the amount of Deferred Cash Contributions and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions to be distributed to Members shall be adjusted to reflect any investment gains or losses attributable to those contributions. |
(a) | Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, contributions, benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified uniformed service duty will be provided in accordance with Section 414(u) of the Code. Without regard to any limitations on contributions set forth in this Article 3, a Member who is reemployed and is credited with Vesting Service under the provisions of Section 1.54(b) because of a period of service in the uniformed services of the United States may elect to contribute to the Plan the Deferred Cash Contributions (including Catch-Up Contributions) and/or After-Tax Contributions that could have been contributed to the Plan in accordance with the provisions of the Plan had he remained continuously employed by the Employer throughout such period of absence ("make-up contributions"). On and after January 1, 2010, a Member who elects to make Deferred Cash Contributions and/or Catch-Up Contributions under this paragraph may further elect, pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.04(a), whether those amounts shall be designated as Deferred Cash Contributions or Roth Deferred Cash Contributions. For purposes of determining the amount of make-up contributions a Member may make, his Compensation for the period of absence shall be deemed to be the rate of Compensation he would have received had he remained employed as an Employee for that period or, if such rate is not reasonably certain, on the basis of the Member's rate of compensation during the 12-month period immediately preceding such period of absence (or if shorter, the period of employment immediately preceding such period). Any Deferred Cash Contributions, Catch-Up Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Catch-Up Contributions and/or After-Tax Contributions so determined shall be limited as provided in Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.04, 3.05, 3.11, and 3.12 with respect to the Plan Year or Years to which such contributions relate rather than the Plan Year in which payment is made. The make-up contributions may be made over a period not to exceed three times the period of military leave or five years, if less, but in no event later than the Member's termination of employment (unless he is subsequently rehired). The make-up period |
(b) | All contributions under this Section, other than make-up Catch-Up Contributions and make-up Roth Catch-Up Contributions made pursuant to this Section and Sections 3.02 and 3.04 respectively, are considered “annual additions,” as defined in Section 415(c)(2) of the Code, and shall be limited in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.13 with respect to the Plan Year or Years to which such contributions relate rather than the Plan Year in which payment is made. |
(a) | Members' Accounts shall be invested in one or more Investment Funds, including BrokerageLink, the self-directed brokerage option offered by Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC, as authorized by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or his designee. |
(b) | The Trustee may keep such amounts of cash as they, in their sole discretion, shall deem necessary or advisable as part of the Funds, all within the limitations specified in the trust agreement. |
(c) | Dividends, interest, and other distributions received on the assets held by the Trustee in respect to each of the above Funds shall be reinvested in the respective Fund. |
(a) | The Trustee shall value the Funds at least monthly. On each Valuation Date, the Accounts of a Member in each Fund shall equal: |
(i) | the Member's account balance in his Accounts as of the immediately preceding Valuation Date; less |
(ii) | any distributions from the Member's Accounts since the immediately preceding Valuation Date; plus |
(iii) | the amount of contributions, if any, made by or on behalf of the Member to that Fund since the immediately preceding Valuation Date; plus |
(iv) | the net earnings or losses, after adjusting for expenses, if any, since the immediately preceding Valuation Date. |
(b) | Whenever an event requires a determination of the value of the Member's Accounts, the value shall be computed as of the Valuation Date coincident with or immediately following the date of determination, subject to the provisions of Section 5.02. |
(a) | (i) As of December 31 of each year prior to January 1, 1995 a Member shall become vested with respect to 25% of the value of the total Matching Contributions made in his behalf for that portion of the year. As of each succeeding December 31, prior to January 1, 1998 such Member shall become vested with respect to an additional 25% of the value of such Matching Contributions until, on December 31 of the third calendar year following the year for which the Matching Contributions were made, such Member shall become vested in 100% of the value of such Matching Contributions made on his behalf. |
(ii) | Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, a Member shall be 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, the value of Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions made on his behalf on or after January 1, 2014, upon the completion of 3 years of Vesting Service. |
(iii) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(ii) above, a Member whose date of hire, rehire or transfer to an Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan was on or before December 31, 2013, other than a member of a unit of Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, with the exception of the collective bargaining agreement covering Employees of the Engineered Pump Division of the Employer that had adopted the EMS Plan, will become vested in the value of Matching Contributions made on his behalf and the value of his Employer Account attributable to employer matching contributions made on his behalf under the EMS Plan in accordance with the following schedule: |
(iv) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(ii) above, a Member whose date of hire, rehire or transfer to an Employer that had adopted the EMS |
(v) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, a Member shall be 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions upon death (including death while performing qualified military service, pursuant to the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008), Disability, or the attainment of his 65th birthday. |
(vi) | Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, a Member who was employed by the Employer’s Benshaw business unit on and before June 30, 2014 shall be 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, all amounts credited to his Accounts under the Plan. |
(vii) | Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, a Member who was employed by Groth Equipment Corporation of Louisiana or TAPCO International, Inc. on and before May 31, 2015 shall be 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, all amounts credited to his Accounts under the Plan. |
(viii) | Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, a Member who was employed by the Engineered Packaging Division unit, formerly Hybricon Corporation, of Littleton, Massachusetts on and before June 30, 2015 shall be 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, all amounts credited to his Accounts under the Plan. |
(b) | The extent to which a Member who was formerly employed by an entity that was acquired by the Employer, or who is employed by the Employer at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from another entity, shall become vested with respect to the value of Matching Contributions, if any, made on his behalf that are described in Appendix A shall be determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of Appendix A. |
(c) | For purposes of this Section 6.02, the "value” of Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions shall mean the amount of Matching Contributions and CW Savings Contributions adjusted for an allocable share of earnings, losses and expenses in accordance with Section 5.01(a)(iv), as of each Valuation Date. |
(a) | Upon termination of employment of a Member who was not fully vested in his Employer Account, the non-vested portion of his Employer Account shall be forfeited at the earlier of the date the Member (i) receives a distribution of the Vested Portion of his Accounts or (ii) incurs five consecutive One-Year Periods of Severance. For purposes of this Section 6.03, a One-Year Period of Severance is a 12-consecutive month period beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the anniversary of such date during which the Employee does not perform an Hour of Service. If an Employee is absent from work due to (iii) pregnancy of the Employee, (iv) birth of a child of the Employee, (v) placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by the Employee or (vi) the Employee’s caring for a child during the period immediately following the birth or adoption, the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first day of the absence shall not constitute a One-Year Period of Severance. Any period of absence included as Vesting Service pursuant to the provisions of Section 1.54(b) or (c) shall not be taken into account in determining whether a One-Year Period of Severance has occurred. Any amounts forfeited pursuant to this subsection shall be applied to reduce Employer contributions or to pay the expenses of the Plan not paid directly by the Employer. If the amount of the Vested Portion of a Member's Employer Account at the time of his termination of employment is zero and the Member had not at any time made Deferred Cash Contributions to the Plan, the Member shall be deemed to have received a distribution of such zero vested benefit. |
(b) | If an amount of a Member's Employer Account has been forfeited in accordance with subsection (a) above, that amount shall be subsequently restored to the Member's Employer Account provided that: |
(i) | he is reemployed by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer prior to incurring five consecutive One-Year Periods of Severance and |
(ii) | he repays to the Plan during his period of reemployment and within five years of his date of reemployment an amount in cash equal to the full amount distributed to him from the Plan on account of his termination of employment. Repayment shall be made in one lump sum. |
(c) | In the event that any amounts to be restored by the Employer to a Member's Employer Account have been forfeited under subsection (a) above, those amounts shall be taken first from any forfeitures which have not as yet been applied against Employer contributions or used to pay expenses of the Plan not paid directly by the Employer, and if any amounts remain to be restored, the Employer shall make a special Employer contribution equal to those amounts. |
(d) | A repayment shall be invested in the available Investment Funds as the Member elects (or is deemed to have elected pursuant to Section 4.02) at the time of repayment. |
(e) | To the extent there are any forfeitures in the Acquired Forfeiture Account, such forfeitures shall be applied to offset Plan expenses under Section 11.04. |
(a) | A Member who has withdrawn the total amount available for withdrawal under the preceding Sections of this Article may, subject to Section 7.05, elect to withdraw |
(b) | As a condition for Hardship there must exist with respect to the Member an immediate and heavy need to draw upon his Accounts. |
(i) | Such immediate and heavy need shall exist only if the requested withdrawal is on account of any of the following: |
(A) | expenses for (or necessary to obtain) medical care that would be deductible under Section 213(d) of the Code (determined without regard to whether the expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income); |
(B) | costs directly related to the purchase of a principal residence of the Member (excluding mortgage payments); |
(C) | payment of tuition and related educational fees, and room and board expenses, for the next 12 months of post-secondary education of the Member, his spouse, children or dependents (as defined in Section 152 of the Code and determined without regard to Sections 152(b)(1), (b)(2) and (d)(1)(B) of the Code); |
(D) | payment of amounts necessary to prevent eviction of the Member from his principal residence or to avoid foreclosure on the mortgage of his principal residence; |
(E) | payments for burial or funeral expenses for the Member's deceased parent, spouse, children or dependents (as defined in Section 152 of the Code and without regard to Section 152(d)(1)(B) of the Code); or |
(F) | expenses for the repair of damages to the Member's principal residence that would qualify for the casualty deduction under Section 165 of the Code (determined without regard to whether the loss exceeds 10 percent of the Member’s adjusted gross income). |
(ii) | The amount of withdrawal may not be in excess of the amount of the immediate and heavy financial need of the Member, including any amounts necessary to pay any Federal, state or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution. |
(iii) | The Member shall furnish to the Administrative Committee or its designee such supporting documents as the Administrative Committee may request |
(c) | As a condition for Hardship, the Member must demonstrate that the requested withdrawal is necessary to satisfy the financial need described in paragraph (b) above. To demonstrate such necessity, the Member must request, on such form as the Administrative Committee or its designee shall prescribe, that the Administrative Committee or its designee make its determination of the necessity for the withdrawal solely on the basis of his application. In that event, the Administrative Committee or its designee shall make such determination, provided both of the following requirements are met: |
(i) | the Member has obtained all distributions, other than distributions available only on account of hardship, and all nontaxable loans currently available under all plans of the Employer and Affiliated Employers, provided that the Administrative Committee or its designee determines that the effect of obtaining such loan would not be to increase the amount of the financial need described in paragraph (b) above; and |
(ii) | the Member is prohibited from making Deferred Cash Contributions, Catch-Up Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Catch-Up Contributions, and After-Tax Contributions to the Plan for six months, and to all other plans of the Employer and Affiliated Employers under the terms of such plans or by means of an otherwise legally enforceable agreement for at least six months after receipt of the distribution. |
(a) | A Member who is on active military duty for more than 30 days may request a distribution of all or a portion of his Deferred Account, his Catch-Up Account, his Roth Deferred Cash Contributions Account and his Roth Catch-Up Account. |
(b) | A Member who takes such a distribution shall be prohibited from making Deferred Cash Contributions, Catch-Up Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Catch-Up Contributions and After-Tax Contributions to the Plan and all other plans of the Employer and Affiliated Employers under the terms of such plans or by means of an otherwise legally enforceable agreement for at least 6 months after receipt of the distribution. |
(c) | Any distribution made under this Section shall be subject to the additional tax on early distributions under Section 72(t) of the Code, unless the distribution is a “qualified reservist distribution” as that term is defined under the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008. |
(a) | Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, distribution of the Vested Portion of a Member's Accounts shall be made to the Member (or to his Beneficiary, in the event of death) in a cash lump sum. |
(b) | The following rules shall apply if a Member’s employment with the Employer and all Affiliated Employers terminates on or after August 10. 2012, and such Member is age 55 or over on his employment termination date (a “Senior Member”): |
(i) | A Senior Member may elect to have the Vested Portion of his Accounts distributed in accordance with one of the following options: |
(B) | Monthly or annual installments, the number or dollar amount of which is determined by the Senior Member prior to the date as of which distribution commences. Installments will begin as soon as practicable after the request is received from the Senior Member and approved by the Plan Administrator. Each subsequent annual installment will be processed as soon as practicable on or after each anniversary of the first payment. Monthly installments shall be processed as soon as practicable on or after the 15th day of each calendar month. All payments under this option will be made in cash. |
(ii) | If the total value of a Senior Member’s Accounts exceeds $1,000 and the designated Beneficiary is the surviving spouse of the Senior Member, the surviving spouse may elect a total distribution or may elect to leave his Accounts in the Plan. If the surviving spouse elects to leave his Accounts in the Plan, he shall be treated as a Senior Member and the investment and payment options which are available to a Senior Member shall be available to the surviving spouse. |
(iii) | A Member who incurs a Disability shall be treated for the purposes of this Article 9 in the same manner as a Senior Member and he or his surviving spouse shall be entitled to the same options set forth above in subsection (b)(i) and (b)(ii), whichever is applicable. |
(a) | Except as otherwise provided in this Article, distribution of the Vested Portion of a Member's Accounts shall be made as soon as administratively practicable following the later of (i) the Member's termination of employment or (ii) the 65th anniversary of the Member's date of birth (but not more than 60 days after the close of the Plan Year in which the later of (i) or (ii) occurs), unless an election is made under paragraph (b) below. |
(b) | In lieu of a distribution as described in paragraph (a) above, a Member may, in accordance with such procedures as the Administrative Committee shall prescribe, elect to have the distribution of the Vested Portion of his Accounts made as of any Valuation Date coincident with or following his termination of employment which is before or after the date described in paragraph (a) above, subject to the provisions of Sections 9.04 and 9.07. |
(c) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), if the value of the Vested Portion of the Member's Accounts (including his Rollover Contributions Account) is less than $1,000, a lump sum payment shall automatically be made as soon as administratively practicable following the Member's termination of employment. |
(d) | In the case of the death of a Member before the distribution of his Accounts, the Vested Portion of his Accounts shall be distributed to his Beneficiary as soon as administratively practicable following the Member's date of death . |
(a) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, if a Member is a five percent owner (as defined in Section 416(i) of the Code), distribution of the Member's Accounts shall begin no later than the April 1 following the calendar year in which he attains age 70½. No minimum distribution payments under the provisions of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code will be made to a Member during his employment |
(b) | In the event a Member in active service is required to begin receiving payments while in service under the provisions of paragraph (a) above, the Member may elect to receive payments while in service in accordance with option (i) or (ii), as follows: |
(i) | A Member may receive one lump sum payment on or before the Member's required beginning date equal to his entire Account balance and annual lump sum payments thereafter of amounts accrued during each calendar year; or |
(ii) | A Member may receive annual payments of the minimum amount necessary to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code. With respect to distribution calendar years commencing on and after January 1, 2002, such minimum amount shall be the lesser of: |
(A) | the quotient obtained by dividing the Member's Accounts by the distribution period in the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations, using the Member's age as of the Member's birthday in the distribution calendar year; or |
(B) | if the Member's sole designated beneficiary for the distribution calendar year is the Member's spouse, the quotient obtained by dividing the Member's Accounts by the number in the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations, using the Member's and spouse's attained ages as of the Member's and the spouse's birthdays in the distribution calendar year. |
(i) | "Designated beneficiary" means the individual who is designated as the Beneficiary and is the designated beneficiary under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code and Section 1.401(a)(9)-4, Q&A-1 of the Treasury regulations. |
(ii) | "Distribution calendar year" means a calendar year for which a minimum distribution is required. The first distribution calendar year is the calendar year in which the applicable Member in active service attains age 70½. |
(iii) | "Life expectancy" means life expectancy as computed by use of the Single Life Table in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations. |
(iv) | "Member's Accounts" means the balance of the Member's Accounts as of the last Valuation Date in the calendar year immediately preceding the distribution calendar year ("valuation calendar year") increased by the amount of contributions made and allocated or forfeitures allocated to the Member's Accounts as of dates in the valuation calendar year after such last Valuation Date and decreased by distributions made in the valuation calendar year after such last Valuation Date. The Member's Accounts for the valuation calendar year includes any amounts rolled over or transferred to the Plan either in the valuation calendar year or in the distribution calendar year if distributed or transferred in the valuation calendar year. |
(a) | With respect to distributions under the Plan made for calendar years beginning on or after January 1, 2001, the Plan will apply the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code in accordance with the Treasury Regulations under Section 401(a)(9) that were proposed on January 17, 2001. |
(b) | With respect to distributions made for distribution calendar years beginning on and after January 1, 2002, the Plan will apply the minimum distribution requirements of Section 401(a)(9) of the Code in accordance with the regulations under Section 401(a)(9) that were issued April 17, 2002, as prescribed in Section 9.04. |
(a) | "Eligible rollover distribution" means any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: |
(i) | any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the distributee and the distributee's designated beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten years or more; |
(ii) | any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Section 401(a)(9) of the Code; |
(iii) | after-tax amounts (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities) unless such amount is rolled over or transferred (i.e., directly rolled over) to an individual retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b) of the Code, or a Roth individual retirement account described in Section 408A(b) of the Code, or transferred (i.e., directly rolled over) to: |
(A) | any qualified plan described in Section 401(a) of the Code; or |
(B) | an annuity plan described in Section 403(b) of the Code |
(iv) | any in-service withdrawal that is made on account of hardship. |
(b) | "Eligible retirement plan" means any of the following types of plans that accept the distributee's eligible rollover distribution: |
(i) | a qualified plan described in Section 401(a) of the Code; |
(ii) | an annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code; |
(iii) | an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(a) or 408(b) of the Code, respectively; |
(iv) | an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code; |
(v) | an eligible plan under Section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan; and |
(vi) | a Roth individual retirement account described in Section 408A of the Code. |
(a) | "Distributee" means an Employee or former Employee. In addition, solely for purposes of paragraph (a) above, the Employee’s or former Employee’s surviving spouse, the Employee’s or former Employee’s spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code are distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse, or a non-spouse Beneficiary; and |
(d) | "Direct rollover" means a payment by the Plan to the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee. |
(a) | the Administrative Committee clearly informs the Member that he has a right to a period of at least 30 days after receiving the notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and, if applicable, a particular distribution option), and |
(b) | the Member, after receiving the notice under Sections 411 and 417, affirmatively elects a distribution. |
(a) | interpret, construe, and apply the provisions of the Plan and Trust Agreement, and any construction adopted by the Administrative Committee in good faith shall be final and binding; |
(b) | adopt Plan amendments that (1) are required by ERISA or other applicable law or regulation governing qualification of employee benefit plans, or are necessary for Plan administration, and which do not materially increase costs to the Plan or the Company or materially change Members' benefits under the Plan, (2) implement special rules in Section 12.03 for acquisitions, sales, and other dispositions, or (3) clarify ambiguous or unclear Plan provisions; provided that such amendments will be made in writing and will be made according to procedures established by the Administrative Committee; |
(d) | change or terminate the existing Investment Fund options offered under the Plan or establish additional Investment Fund options; |
(e) | appoint and dismiss Investment Managers (as described by section 3(38) of ERISA) and the Trustee; |
(f) | provide guidelines and directions to, and monitor the performance of, Investment Managers and the Trustee; and |
(a) | Claims for benefits under the Plan shall be filed on forms supplied by the Administrative Committee with Curtiss-Wright Corporation's Benefits Department. Written notice of the disposition of a claim shall be furnished the claimant within 60 days after the application therefor is filed. In the event the claim is denied, the reasons for the denial shall be specifically set forth, pertinent provisions of the Plan shall be cited and, where appropriate, an explanation as to how the claimant can appeal the claim will be provided. |
(b) | Any Employee, former Employee, or Beneficiary of either, who has been denied a benefit, shall be entitled to request a hearing before the Administrative Committee. Such request, together with a written statement of the claimant's position, shall be filed with the Administrative Committee no later than 90 days after receipt of the written notification provided for in paragraph (a) above. The Administrative Committee shall schedule an opportunity for a full and fair hearing of the issue within the next 60 days. The decision following such hearing shall be made within 60 days and shall be communicated in writing to the claimant. The decision of the Administrative Committee shall be final and binding upon all parties concerned. |
(a) | The Employer, by action of its Board of Directors taken at a meeting held either in person or by telephone or other electronic means, or by unanimous written consent in lieu of a meeting, reserves the right at any time and from time to time, and retroactively if deemed necessary or appropriate, to amend in whole or in part any or all of the provisions of the Plan. |
(b) | Amendments to the Plan that are required because of statute or rulings of a judicial body or are necessitated for administrative purposes, unless such administrative amendments have a material effect on the cost or benefit level of the Plan, shall be made by the Administrative Committee. Effective as of January 1, 2007, amendments to the Plan that reflect acquisitions shall be adopted by the Administrative Committee. All such amendments shall be submitted to the Board of Directors at their meeting following the adoption of such amendments. |
(c) | Notwithstanding any provision hereof, no amendment shall make it possible for any part of the funds of the Plan to be used for, or diverted to, purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of persons entitled to benefits under the Plan. No amendment shall be made which has the effect of decreasing the balance of the Accounts of any Member or of reducing the nonforfeitable percentage of the balance of the Accounts of a Member below the nonforfeitable percentage computed under the Plan as in effect on the date on which the amendment is adopted or, if later, the date on which the amendment becomes effective. |
(a) | If any company is or becomes a subsidiary of or associated with an Employer, the Board of Directors may include the employees of that subsidiary or associated company in the membership of the Plan upon appropriate action by that company |
(b) | Any subsidiary or associated company may terminate its participation in the Plan upon appropriate action by it. In that event the funds of the Plan held on account of Members in the employ of that company, and any unpaid balances of the Accounts of all Members who have separated from the employ of that company, shall be determined by the Administrative Committee. Those funds shall be distributed as provided in Section 12.04 if the Plan should be terminated, or shall be segregated by the Trustee as a separate trust, pursuant to certification to the Trustee by the Administrative Committee, continuing the Plan as a separate plan for the employees of that company under which the board of directors of that company shall succeed to all the powers and duties of the Board of Directors, including the appointment of the members of the Administrative Committee. |
(a) | The Employer, by action of its Board of Directors, taken at a meeting described in Section 12.01 or by unanimous written consent, Board of Directors may terminate the Plan or completely discontinue contributions under the Plan for any reason at any time. In case of termination or partial termination of the Plan, or complete discontinuance of Employer contributions to the Plan, the rights of affected Members to their Accounts under the Plan as of the date of the termination or discontinuance shall be nonforfeitable. The total amount in each Member's Accounts shall be distributed, as the Administrative Committee shall direct, to him or for his benefit or continued in trust for his benefit. |
(b) | Upon termination of the Plan, Deferred Cash Contributions, with earnings thereon, shall only be distributed to Members if (i) neither the Employer nor an Affiliated Employer establishes or maintains a successor defined contribution plan and (ii) payment is made to the Members in the form of a lump sum distribution (as defined in Section 402(e)(4)(D) of the Code, without regard to subclauses (I) through (IV) of clause (i) thereof). For purposes of this paragraph, a "successor defined contribution plan" is a defined contribution plan (other than an employee stock ownership plan as defined in Section 4975(e)(7) or 409(a) of the Code ("ESOP"), a simplified employee pension as defined in Section 408(k) of the Code ("SEP"), a SIMPLE IRA plan as defined in Section 408(p) of the Code, a plan or contract that satisfies the requirements of Section 403(b) of the Code, or a plan that is described in Section 457(b) or (f)) which exists at the time the Plan is terminated or within the 12-month period beginning on the date all assets are distributed that accepts salary deferrals. However, in no event shall a defined contribution plan be deemed a successor plan if fewer than 2 percent of the employees who are eligible to participate in the Plan at the time of its termination are or were eligible to participate under another defined contribution plan of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer (other than a plan excluded under the prior sentence) at any time during the period |
(a) | However, payment shall be made in accordance with the provisions of any judgment, decree, or order which: |
(i) | creates for, or assigns to, a spouse, former spouse, child or other dependent of a Member the right to receive all or a portion of the Member's benefits under the Plan for the purpose of providing child support, alimony payments or marital property rights to that spouse, child or dependent, |
(ii) | is made pursuant to a State domestic relations law, |
(iii) | does not require the Plan to provide any type of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the Plan, and |
(iv) | otherwise meets the requirements of Section 206(d) of ERISA, as amended, as a "qualified domestic relations order", as determined by the Administrative Committee. |
(b) | A Member's benefit under the Plan shall be offset or reduced by the amount the Member is required to pay to the Plan under the circumstances set forth in Section 401(a)(13)(C) of the Code. |
(c) | A Member's benefit under the Plan shall be distributed as required because of the enforcement of a federal tax levy made pursuant to Section 6331 of the Code or the collection by the United States on a judgment resulting from an unpaid tax assessment. |
(i) | "applicable determination date" means the last day of the later of the first Plan Year or the preceding Plan Year; |
(ii) | "top-heavy ratio" means the ratio of |
(A) | the value of the aggregate of the Accounts under the Plan for key employees to |
(B) | the value of the aggregate of the Accounts under the Plan for all key employees and non-key employees; |
(iii) | "key employee" means any employee or former employee (including any deceased employee) who at any time during the Plan Year that includes the applicable determination date was an officer of an Employer or an Affiliated Employer having Statutory Compensation greater than $170,000 (as adjusted under Section 416(i)(1) of the Code), a 5-percent owner (as defined in Section 416(i)(1)(B)(i) of the Code) of an Employer or an Affiliated Employer, or a 1-percent owner (as defined in Section 416(i)(1)(B)(ii) of the Code) of an Employer or an Affiliated Employer having Statutory Compensation greater than $150,000. The determination of who is a key employee shall be made in accordance with Section 416(i) of the Code and the applicable regulations and other guidance of general applicability issued thereunder. |
(iv) | "non-key employee" means any Employee who is not a key employee; |
(v) | "applicable Valuation Date" means the Valuation Date coincident with or immediately preceding the last day of the first Plan Year or the preceding Plan Year, whichever is applicable; |
(vi) | "required aggregation group" means any other qualified plan(s) of the Employer or an Affiliated Entity in which at least one key employee participates or participating in during the Plan Year containing the applicable determination date or any of the four preceding Plan Years (regardless of whether the plan has terminated) or which enable(s) the Plan to meet the requirements of Section 401(a)(4) or 410 of the Code; and |
(vii) | "permissive aggregation group" means each plan in the required aggregation group and any other qualified plan(s) of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer in which all members are non-key employees, if the resulting aggregation group continues to meet the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the Code. |
(b) | For purposes of this Section, the Plan shall be "top-heavy" with respect to any Plan Year if as of the applicable determination date the top-heavy ratio exceeds 60 percent. The top-heavy ratio shall be determined as of the applicable Valuation Date in accordance with Sections 416(g)(3) and 416(g)(4)(B) of the Code and Article 5 of this Plan and shall take into account any contributions made after the applicable Valuation Date but before the last day of the Plan Year in which the applicable Valuation Date occurs. The determination of whether the Plan is top-heavy is subject to the following: |
(i) | the Accounts under the Plan will be combined with the account balances or the present value of accrued benefits under each other plan in the required aggregation group and, in the Employer's discretion, may be combined with the account balances or the present value of accrued benefits under any other qualified plan in the permissive aggregation group; |
(ii) | the Accounts for an employee as of the applicable determination date shall be increased by the distributions made with respect to the employee under the Plan and any plan aggregated with the Plan under Section 416(g)(2) of the Code during the one-year period (five-year period in the case of a distribution made for a reason other than severance from employment, death, or disability) ending on the applicable determination date; |
(iii) | distributions under any plan that terminated within the five-year period ending on the applicable determination date shall be taken into account if such plan contained key employees and, therefore, would have been part of the required aggregation group; and |
(iv) | if an individual has not performed services for the Employer or an Affiliated Employer at any time during the one-year period ending on the applicable determination date, such individual's accounts and the present value of his accrued benefits shall not be taken into account. |
(c) | The following provisions shall be applicable to Members for any Plan Year with respect to which the Plan is top-heavy: |
(i) | In lieu of the vesting requirements specified in Section 6.02, a Member shall be vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, his Employer Account upon the completion of three years of Vesting Service, provided that in no event shall the Vested Portion of a Member's Employer Account be less than the percentage determined under Section 6.02. |
(ii) | An additional Employer contribution shall be allocated on behalf of each Member (and each Employee eligible to become a Member) who is a non-key employee, and who has not severed employment as of the last day of the Plan Year, to the extent that the contributions made on his behalf under Section 3.07 and Appendix A, if applicable, for the Plan Year would otherwise be less than 3% of his Statutory Compensation. However, if the greatest percentage of Statutory Compensation contributed on behalf of a key employee under Sections 3.01, 3.07 and Appendix A, if applicable, for the Plan Year would be less than 3%, that lesser percentage shall be substituted for "3%" in the preceding sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph (ii), no minimum contribution shall be made under this Plan with respect to a Member (or an Employee eligible to become a Member) if the required minimum benefit under Section 416(c)(1) of the Code is provided to him by any other qualified pension plan of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer. |
(a) | The Plan shall be construed, regulated and administered under ERISA and the laws of the State of New Jersey, except where ERISA controls. |
(b) | The masculine pronoun shall mean the feminine wherever appropriate. |
(c) | The titles and headings of the Articles and Sections in this Plan are for convenience only. In the case of ambiguity or inconsistency, the text rather than the titles or headings shall control. |
(a) | Qualified Individual. A Member whose principal residence on August 28, 2005 was located in one of the Hurricane Katrina designated disaster areas as so designated for purposes of KETRA (the “Affected Areas”) and who sustained an economic loss as a result of Hurricane Katrina. |
(b) | Other Katrina Members. A Member whose place of employment on August 29, 2005 was in the Affected Areas, but not his principal residence. |
(c) | Family Members. Lineal ascendants, lineal descendants, dependents and spouses of Qualified Individuals or of Other Katrina Members. |
(a) | Hurricane Katrina Distribution. A qualified Hurricane Katrina distribution is a distribution made on or after August 25, 2005 and before January 1, 2007, to a Qualified Individual. The amounts available for qualified Hurricane Katrina distributions under the Plan include amounts attributable to Deferred Cash Contributions and Catch-Up Contributions, Qualified Nonelective Contributions, or Qualified Matching Contributions, notwithstanding the fact that a distribution may occur before an otherwise permitted distributable event. |
(b) | Amount of Distribution. The aggregate amount of qualified Hurricane Katrina distributions, taken by a Qualified Individual under this Section 14.02(b), shall not exceed $100,000, in the aggregate, from all plans maintained by the Employer (and any member of any controlled group of the Employer which includes the Employer), including the aggregate amount of distributions recharacterized as qualified Hurricane Katrina distributions received by the individual for all prior taxable years. |
(c) | Other Distributions. Hardship distributions described in Section 7.04(b) may be made to Plan Members on behalf of Other Katrina Members and Family Members on or after August 29, 2005 and no later than March 31, 2006. Subsections 7.04(c)(ii)(B) and 14.02(b) hereof shall not apply to such distributions. Subsection 14.06 hereof shall apply to such distributions. |
(a) | Distributions taken from the Plan, received by a Qualified Individual after February 28, 2005 and before August 29, 2005, intended for use to purchase or construct a principal residence in the Affected Areas may be recontributed to this Plan during the period beginning August 25, 2005 and ending on February 28, 2006, provided the residence is not purchased or constructed as a result of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Recontributed amounts shall be treated as Rollover Contributions pursuant to Section 3.08 of the Plan. |
(b) | If a Member receives a qualified Hurricane Katrina distribution, the Member may, pursuant to 101(c)(1) of KETRA, at any time during the three-year period beginning on the day after the date on which such distribution was received, make one or more contributions to the Plan in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount |
(a) | Notwithstanding the otherwise applicable provisions set forth in Section 8.05 of the Plan, Plan loans to Members who are Qualified Individuals that are made after September 23, 2005 and before January 1, 2007, shall not exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the total vested accrued benefits of the Member under the Plan as of the date of the loan. Any such amount may be secured by up to 100% of the Member's vested Account balance in the Trust Fund. In no event shall the amount of any loan to any such Member exceed $100,000 (reduced by the highest outstanding loan balance during the one-year period ending on the day before the loan was made over the outstanding balance of loans from the Plan on the day the loan was made). The maximum number of loans outstanding that any Member is permitted to have in accordance with the Member Loan Procedures shall not be increased as a result of the provisions of this subsection. |
(b) | Repayment of Loans. A Member who is a Qualified Individual who has outstanding loans on or after August 25, 2005 with respect to which any repayment due date falls during the period beginning August 25, 2005 through December 31, 2006, may have such due date (or dates) delayed for one year. The suspension period shall be disregarded in determining the original five (5) year repayment date (or fifteen (15) year repayment date for principal residence loans). Loan payments must resume as soon as practicable after the end of the suspension period, and the term of the loan shall be extended by the duration of such suspension period. Repayments shall be appropriately adjusted with accrued interest to reflect the delay in the due date(s). |
(a) | As of January 1, 2000, any Employee hired on July 31, 1998 whose immediate prior service was with Enertech shall be eligible to participate in the Plan as of the Enrollment Date coinciding with or next following the date he completes his Year of Eligibility Service, which Year of Eligibility Service shall include all service at Enertech and shall remain eligible so long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. |
(b) | Any Employee hired on July 31, 1998 whose immediate prior service was with Enertech shall continue to vest in matching contributions allocated to his account under Enertech's prior plan, which contributions, including earnings thereon, were transferred to the Plan in accordance with a transaction undertaken in compliance with Section 414(l) of the Code, in accordance with the following schedule: |
Years of Service for Vesting | Vested Percentage |
0 | 0% |
2 | 20% |
3 | 40% |
4 | 60% |
5 | 80% |
6 | 100% |
(a) | Each Employee who is employed at any operations or facilities acquired by the Employer in its acquisition of Nova Machine Products Corp. shall not be eligible to become a Member prior to July 1, 2005 but shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after July 1, 2005 (such employees hereinafter referred to as "Nova Machine Employees"). |
(b) | The Employer may make special contributions to the Plan on account of any Plan Year, in an amount to be determined by the Employer, on behalf of each Member who is a Nova Machine Employee on the last day of that Plan Year and who has made either Deferred Cash Contributions or After-Tax Contributions during that Plan Year. The special contributions shall be paid to the Trustee no later than the time (including extensions) prescribed by law for the filing of the Employer's federal income tax return for the year for which the contributions are made. |
(c) | The special contributions, if any, for a particular Plan Year shall be a specified percentage (as determined by the Employer) of the Deferred Cash Contributions and/or After-Tax Contributions made by or on behalf of each eligible Nova Machine |
(d) | The Administrative Committee shall establish such separate accounts within the Employer Account as may be necessary to properly account for the special contributions. |
(e) | A Nova Machine Employee shall vest in his special contribution subaccount within his Employer Account upon the earliest to occur of: (A) his completion of three Years of Vesting Service, (B) his attainment of age 65 while employed by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer, or (C) his death while employed by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer. For purposes of this Item 17, an Employee shall be credited with a Year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year commencing on and after January 1, 2005 in which the Employee completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service. The Employee shall also be credited with the number of Years of Vesting Service the Employee had accrued under the terms of the Nova Division 401(k) Plan as of December 31, 2004. |
(f) | The special contribution shall be included in performing the contribution percentage test under Section 3.12 in accordance with applicable law. |
(g) | The one per calendar year restriction on in-service withdrawals under Section 7.03 shall not apply to any employee who had an account balance transferred to this Plan from the Nova Division 401 (k) Plan as of July 1, 2005. |
(h) | The Administrative Committee shall adopt such rules of administration uniformly applicable to all employees similarly situated as it deems necessary to administer the provisions of this Item 17 in accordance with applicable law. |
(i) | Effective for plan years after December 31, 2007, the special contributions provided for in sub-paragraph (b) and described in sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph 17 will no longer be provided. Sub-paragraphs (d) through (h) will remain in effect. |
(a) | For the 2011 Plan Year, the Employer shall make matching contributions on behalf of each BASF Employee for each payroll period ending after April 8, 2011 equal to 100% of the first 5% of Compensation elected as Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After-Tax Contributions for the payroll period. The total amount of matching contributions made for any BASF Employee for any payroll period during the 2011 Plan Year shall not exceed 5% of Compensation. |
(b) | For the 2011 Plan Year, the Employer shall make a nonelective contribution for each of the following BASF Employees: |
(c) | The Administrative Committee shall establish such separate accounts within the Employer Account as may be necessary to account for the special contributions made pursuant to this paragraph 22. |
(d) | BASF Employees shall at all times be 100% vested in the special contribution subaccounts within their Employer Accounts. |
(e) | Matching contributions made pursuant to this paragraph 22 shall be included in performing the contribution percentage test under Section 3.12 in accordance with applicable law. In addition, any matching contributions made with respect to Deferred Cash Contributions or Roth Deferred Cash Contributions refunded pursuant to Section 3.11 or After-Tax Contributions refunded pursuant to Section 3.12 shall be treated as a forfeiture. Any refund of excess aggregate contributions under Section 3.12 shall be coordinated with any refund required under Section 3.11 and shall not discriminate in favor of any Highly Compensated Employees receiving such distributions. |
(f) | The Administrative Committee shall adopt such rules of administration uniformly applicable to all employees similarly situated as it deems necessary to administer the provisions of this paragraph 22 in accordance with applicable law. |
24. | South Bends Controls Holdings, LLC |
25. | AP Services, LLC |
(a) | Each employee of AP Services, LLP (“AP”) who became an Employee as of November 5, 2012, and any other eligible Employee who is thereafter employed by the Employer on or before December 31, 2012, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from AP, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after January 1, 2013, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(a) as of such date (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “AP Employees”). Each AP Employee shall remain eligible so long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after January 1, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from AP shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any AP Employee who became an Employee on November 5, 2012, whose immediate prior service was with AP or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
26. | Cimarron Energy Inc. |
(a) | Each employee of Cimarron Energy Inc. (“Cimarron”) who became an Employee as of November 26, 2012, and any other eligible Employee who is thereafter employed by the Employer on or before March 31, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Cimarron, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after April 1, 2013 (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “Cimarron Employees”). Each Cimarron Employee shall remain eligible so long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after April 1, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Cimarron shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any Cimarron Employee who became an Employee on November 26, 2012, whose immediate prior service was with Cimarron or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
(c) | The Employer may make special contributions to the Plan on account of the Plan Year commencing on January 1, 2013, in an amount to be determined by the Employer, on behalf of each Member who is a Cimarron Employee and who has made Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After-Tax Contributions during that Plan Year (the “Discretionary Match Contribution”). The Discretionary Match Contribution shall not exceed 100% of the first 2% of the Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After-Tax Contributions made by the Member during each payroll period in that Plan Year. The Discretionary Match Contributions, if any, shall be paid to the Trustee as and when determined by the Employer, but no later than the time (including extensions) prescribed by law for the filing of the Employer’s Federal income tax return for the year for which the contributions are made. |
(d) | The Discretionary Match Contribution, if any, for the Plan Year commencing on January 1, 2013, shall be a specified percentage (as determined by the Employer) of the Deferred Cash Contributions, Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, and/or After‑Tax Contributions made by or on behalf of each eligible Cimarron Employee pursuant to Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.04, and/or 3.05 during the period April 1, 2013, through December 31, 2013. Discretionary Match Contributions, if any, shall first be made with respect to Deferred Cash Contributions, and Roth Deferred Cash Contributions, then with respect to After-Tax Contributions. |
(e) | The Administrative Committee shall establish such separate subaccounts within the Employer Account as may be necessary to properly account for the Discretionary Match Contribution (the “Cimarron Match Subaccounts”). |
(f) | (i) Subject to subparagraph (f)(ii) below, a Cimarron Employee for whom Discretionary Match Contributions were made for the period April 1, 2013, through December 31, 2013, will become vested in amounts credited to his Cimarron Match Subaccount and in the value of Matching Contributions made on his behalf on or after January 1, 2014, in accordance with the following schedule: |
(ii) | For purposes of this paragraph 26, an Employee shall be credited with a year of Vesting Service in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.54, except that an Employee shall be credited with a year of Vesting Service for |
(iii) | Notwithstanding subparagraph (i) above, a Cimarron Employee or an Employee described in the last sentence of paragraph (a) above shall become fully vested (if not otherwise so vested) in his Cimarron Match Subaccount and in the value of Matching Contributions made on his behalf on or after January 1, 2014, upon (A) his death while employed by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer (including death while performing qualified military service, pursuant to the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008); (B) his Disability, (C) his attainment of age 65 while employed by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer, or (D) the divestiture by the Company of the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Company from Cimarron. |
(iv) | Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.02(a)(iii), a Cimarron Employee or an Employee described in the last sentence of paragraph (a) above shall become 100% vested in, and have a nonforfeitable right to, the value of CW Savings Contributions made on his behalf upon death (including death while performing qualified military service, pursuant to the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008), Disability, the attainment of his 65th birthday, or the divestiture by the Company of the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Company from Cimarron. |
(g) | The Discretionary Match Contribution shall be included in performing the contribution percentage test under Section 3.12 in accordance with applicable law. |
(h) | Distribution of the Vested Portion of the Accounts of a Member who is a Cimarron Employee for whom amounts were transferred to the Plan on or about October 1, 2013, as a result of the merger of the Cimarron Energy Inc. Retirement Savings Plan into the Plan may be made to such Member upon his termination of employment in partial payment form that provides the Member with a portion of the Vested Portion of his Accounts, with the remaining balance retained for distribution at a later date. A Member electing the partial payment form of distribution must indicate on the distribution election form the amount of the partial payment. There shall be no limitation on the number or frequency of partial payments that a Member may elect. The Administrative Committee shall establish a policy and procedures regarding the order in which partial payments are to be charged against particular Investment Funds and against particular Accounts maintained under such Investment Funds. |
(i) | The Administrative Committee shall adopt such rules of administration uniformly applicable to all employees similarly situated as it deems necessary to administer the provisions of this paragraph 26 in accordance with applicable law. |
(j) | Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.07A(a), for the Plan Year commencing on January 1, 2014, the Employer may make CW Savings Contributions in an amount to be determined by the Employer, as of the last day of such Plan Year, on behalf of each Member who is a Cimarron Employee or Employee described in the last sentence of paragraph (a) above and who is described in the following sentence. |
(k) | All Account balances for Cimarron Employees or Employees described in the last sentence of paragraph (a) above shall be transferred to a plan maintained or to be established by the acquirer of the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Company from Cimarron, effective as of the date of divestiture by the Company of such operations and facilities (the “Cimarron Successor Plan”). Each Member of the Plan whose Account balance is transferred to the Cimarron Successor Plan as an incidence of the divestiture described in the preceding sentence shall be entitled to an account balance under the Cimarron Successor Plan immediately after the transfer that is equal to or greater than the Account balance he was entitled to under the Plan immediately prior to the transfer. Members of the Plan who thereby become participants in the Cimarron Successor Plan shall have such rights and benefit entitlements as provided under the terms of the Plan prior to becoming participants in the Cimarron Successor Plan and shall have such further rights and benefit entitlements as provided under the terms of the Cimarron Successor Plan subsequent to becoming participants therein. |
27. | Williams Controls, Inc. |
(a) | Each employee of Williams Controls, Inc. (“Williams”) who became an Employee as of December 14, 2012, and any other eligible Employee who is employed by the Employer on or before December 31, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Williams, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after January 1, 2014, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(a) as of such date (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “Williams Employees”). Each Williams Employee shall remain eligible as long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after January 1, 2014, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Williams shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any Williams Employee who became an Employee on December 14, 2012, whose immediate prior service was with Williams or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
28. | Exlar Corporation |
(a) | Each employee of Exlar Corporation (“Exlar”) who became an Employee as of January 2, 2013, and any other eligible Employee who is employed by the Employer on or before December 31, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Exlar, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after January 1, 2014, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(a) as of such date (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “Exlar Employees”). Each Exlar Employee shall remain eligible as long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after January 1, 2014, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Exlar shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any Exlar Employee who became an Employee on January 2, 2013, whose immediate prior service was with Exlar or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
29. | Parvus Corporation |
(a) | Each employee of Parvus Corporation (“Parvus”) who became an Employee as of October 1, 2013, and any other eligible Employee who is employed by the Employer on or before December 31, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Parvus, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after January 1, 2014, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(a) as of such date (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “Parvus Employees”). Each Parvus Employee shall remain eligible as long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after January 1, 2014, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Parvus shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any Parvus Employee who became an Employee on October 1, 2013, whose immediate prior service was with Parvus or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
30. | Arens Controls, LLC |
(a) | Each employee of Arens Controls, LLC (“Arens”) who became an Employee as of October 7, 2013, and any other eligible Employee who is employed by the Employer on or before December 31, 2013, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Arens, shall be eligible to become a Member on any Enrollment Date on or after January 1, 2014, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(a) as of such date (such employees are hereinafter referred to as “Arens Employees”). Each Arens Employee shall remain eligible as long as he continues to satisfy the eligibility requirements. Each other eligible Employee who is not employed by the Employer until on or after January 1, 2014, at the operations and facilities that were acquired by the Employer from Arens shall be eligible to become a Member and shall remain eligible in accordance with the Plan’s eligibility requirements. |
(b) | For purposes of determining Years of Eligibility Service and Vesting Service with respect to any Arens Employee who became an Employee on October 7, 2013, whose immediate prior service was with Arens or an affiliate thereof, and who was employed by such entity at such acquisition date, service shall commence with his or her most recent date of hire with such entity immediately prior to such acquisition date. |
31. | General Provision Regarding Eligibility and Vesting Service for Employees of Acquired Entities |