ARTICLE 14

PRO RATA PENSIONS

14.1 Purpose. Pro Rata Pensions are provided under this Plan for Employees:

Who would otherwise be ineligible for a pension because their years of employment have been divided between employment creditable under this Plan and employment creditable under another pension plan; or
Whose pension would otherwise be lower because of such division of employment.

14.2 Related Plans. By resolution duly adopted, the Board of Trustees may recognize another pension plan as a Related Plan. Recognition of employment under the Related Plan, and payment of Pro Rata Pensions with respect to such employment will be governed by the reciprocity agreement between this Plan and the Related Plan, subject to the rules of this Article 14.

14.3 Related Hours. The term “Related Hours” means hours of employment that are creditable under a Related Plan.

14.4 Related Credit. The term “Related Credit” means credited service, or portions thereof, creditable to an Employee under a Related Plan, recognizable by this Plan pursuant to the terms of a reciprocity agreement.

14.5 Combined Pension Credit. The term “Combined Pension Credit” means the total of an Employee’s Related Credit plus the Pension Credit accumulated under this Plan (hereinafter referred to as Southern California Credit) including but not limited to the Future Service Unit requirement.

14.6 Non-Duplication. An Employee shall not receive double credit for the same period of employment.

14.7 Eligibility for a Pro Rata Pension.

This section modified by: Amendment 15. View Previous Language

Effective July 1, 2010, for the sole purpose of determining eligibility for an Early Retirement Benefit prior to age 55 with Total Credited Service of 42,500 hours under Section 3.2(b), Related Hours shall be treated as if they were Total Credited Service under this Plan only if such hours were worked prior to July 1, 2010.

14.8 Break in Service. Related Hours shall be considered in determining whether an Employee has incurred a Divesting Service Year.

14.9 Amount of Pro Rata Pension. The monthly amount of the Pro Rata Pension payable under this Plan is determined in the same way as the Normal, Early Retirement, Disability, Vested Pension or Survivor Pension is determined, based solely on the Pension Credits earned under this Plan. The benefit unit on which a Pro Rata Pension is based may not exceed the benefit unit applicable to the Participant on his last Covered Hour under this Plan.

This section added by: Amendment 11.

14.10 All provisions of this Article are subject to the limitations and restrictions of Article 18 which govern benefits first commencing on and after October 28, 2009.