AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
Amendment No. 1 dated as of
November 30, 1995, between XXXXX
PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), and
XXX X. BOOTS (the "Employee").
Reference is made to the Employment Agreement dated as of January
1, 1993, between the Company and the Employee. The Company and the
Employee desire to extend the term of the Employment Agreement and to
include provisions regarding the assumption of life insurance by the
Employee and survival of severance obligations beyond the term of the
Employment Agreement. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Employment
Agreement.
The Board of Directors of the Company has authorized an increase
in the Employee's annual base salary to $144,402, effective January 1,
1996.
Accordingly, in consideration of the mutual covenants and
premises contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereby agree as follows:
1. TERM. Section 2 of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to read in
its entirety as follows:
"Subject to earlier termination as provided herein, the
employment of the Employee hereunder shall commence on the date hereof
(the "Effective Date"), and terminate on December 31, 1998 (the
"Expiration Date"). Such period of employment is hereinafter referred
to as the "Employment Period."
2. ASSUMPTION OF KEY-PERSON LIFE INSURANCE. The Employment Agreement is hereby
amended by adding a new Section 23 which reads in its entirety as follows:
"23. KEY-PERSON LIFE INSURANCE. The Company currently maintains
key-person term life insurance coverage on the Employee (the
"Policy"). In the event that the employment of the Employee is
terminated for any reason, the Employee shall have the option, to be
exercised no later than the tenth calendar day after the Termination
Date, to assume the rights and obligations of the Company under the
Policy, provided that such assumption of rights and obligations by the
Employee is permitted by the insurance company issuing the Policy. In
the event that the Employee does not elect to assume the Policy, the
Company shall promptly thereafter cancel such Policy."
3. EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT. The proviso contained at the end of
Section 11 of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to read in its
entirety as follows:
"PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Termination of
Employment is pursuant to a Termination Without Cause, then, in
addition to the amounts computed pursuant to Sections 11(a) through
11(d), the Employee shall have the right to receive as severance
compensation an amount equal to the greater of (A) 100% of one year's
Base Salary (as of the Termination Date) and (B) 1/12th of one year's
Base Salary (as of the Termination Date) for each year (not to exceed
24 years in the aggregate) that the Employee was employed by the
Company (and its predecessor-in-interest, Xxxxx Plastics, Inc.), the
amount referred to in clause (A) or (B), as the case may be, to be
payable at the same times at which and in the same manner in which the
Base Salary would have been payable to the Employee had the
Termination of Employment not occurred (the amount payable by the
Company to the Employee pursuant to this proviso being hereinafter
referred to as the "Severance Compensation"); PROVIDED FURTHER,
HOWEVER, in the event that, at any time after the Expiration Date,
there occurs a Termination of Employment pursuant to a Termination
Without Cause, the Company shall pay the Severance Compensation to the
Employee as if the Expiration Date had not occurred."
4. RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS. The first portion of the second sentence of Section
13(a) of the Employment Agreement which precedes "(i)" is hereby amended to
read in its entirety as follows:
"Accordingly, in consideration of the premises
contained herein and the consideration to be received by the Employee
hereunder (including, without limitation, the Severance Compensation),
without the prior written consent of the Company, the Employee shall
not, at any time during the employer/employee relationship between the
Company and the Employee and for the longer of (x) the one-year period
after the termination of such employer/employee relationship and (y)
the period of time beginning with the termination of such
employer/employee relationship and the final payment of Severance
Compensation to the Employee by the Company,"
5. SURVIVAL. The Employment Agreement is hereby amended by adding a new
Section 24 which reads in its entirety as follows:
"24. SURVIVAL. Sections 11 through 23, this Section
24 and the defined terms used in any section referred to in this
Section 24, shall survive the termination of the Employee's employment
on the Termination Date and the expiration of this Employment
Agreement on the Expiration Date."
6. EFFECT OF AMENDMENT. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Employment
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and unchanged.
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7. COUNTERPARTS. This Amendment No. 1 may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have hereunto set their hands as
of the date first written above.
XXXXX PLASTICS CORPORATION
By: /S/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXX
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
President
/S/ XXX X. BOOTS
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Xxx X. Boots
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