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HENRY SCHEIN, INC. 401(k) SAVINGS
PLAN
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 – Description of Plan
The following description of the Henry Schein, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan (the
“Plan”) provides only general information.
Participants
should refer to the Plan document or Summary Plan Description for a more complete description
of the Plan’s provisions.
(a) Nature of Operations
The Plan is a contributory defined contribution 401(k) plan originally effective
January 1, 1970.
The Plan was amended effective
December 26, 1993, to include an Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) feature.
The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).
The third-party administrator is Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations
Company, Inc., (the
“Administrator”).
The Plan trustee is Fidelity Management Trust Company
(the “Trustee”).
Eligible employees
are those employed by Henry Schein, Inc. (the “Plan Sponsor” or the “Company”) and certain of the Company’s affiliates (collectively,
the “Employer”).
All employees (other than temporary employees) are eligible to make
salary reduction contributions to the Plan upon hire and become
eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer Match (each
as described below) upon completion of a one
year period of service.
Temporary employees are
eligible to make salary reduction contributions to the Plan and to be credited with
Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer Match on the first July 1 or January
1 following the completion of a twelve consecutive
month period during which the temporary employee is credited with at least one
thousand hours of service or the completion of three
consecutive plan years starting
on or after
January 1, 2021
in each of
which the temporary employee
is credited with
at least five
hundred
hours of service.
If an individual is initially classified as a temporary employee and then is reclassified as a regular
participant, the
participant is immediately eligible to make salary reduction contributions
to the Plan, and is eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing
Contributions and the Employer Match upon the earlier of a completion of
a one year period of service or when he or she would have
been eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer
Match if he or she would have remained a temporary
employee.
On March 27, 2020, then President Trump signed
into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (“CARES Act”) .
The
CARES Act, among other things, includes several relief provisions available
to tax-qualified retirement plans and their participants.
Plan management evaluated the relief provisions available to plan
sponsors under the CARES Act and implemented the following
•Special Coronavirus Related Distributions for qualified individuals
(impacted by COVID-19 as set forth in the CARES Act) up to
$100,000,
available before December 31, 2020
• Increased available loan amount otherwise described in Note 1(f) for qualified
individuals to the lesser of $100,000 or 100% of the
participant’s vested account
balance, available until September 22, 2020
• Allowed qualified individuals to delay,
up to one year, any loan repayments otherwise
due between the date the CARES Act was
enacted and December 31, 2020
• Suspended required minimum distributions for 2020
On October 29, 2020, the Plan was amended to reinstate matching contributions
(which had been suspended for quarters starting on or
after June 28, 2020), effective for plan years beginning on and after
January 1, 2021.
On December 15, 2021, the Plan was amended to provide for the recognition of
prior service for employees of an acquired entity,
to
formally reflect relief implemented under the CARES Act, and to make certain
changes permitted or required under the Setting Every
Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), including
(i) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
an increase in the Plan’s required
minimum distribution age from 70½ to age 72 as permitted by the SECURE Act, (ii)
provide for the
recognition of prior service for employees of an acquired entity,
(iii) to revise participant status of temporary employees providing
for
temporary employees to become eligible if they are credited with at least 500
hours of service in three consecutive plan years, (iv)
revising timing for distributions to non-spouse beneficiaries upon death,
(v) addition of provisions for qualified birth or adoption
distributions, and (vi) inclusion of special provisions of the Plan to certain
participants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and
eligible relief under section 2202 of the CARES Act.
(b) Contributions
The Plan provides for a discretionary Employer contribution (the “Profit
Sharing Contribution”) of a percentage of a participant’s
base
compensation, as defined under the Plan.
There were no discretionary Profit Sharing Contributions for the years ended December
31,
2021 and 2020.