CTS Corporation
Form 10-Q/A
First Quarter 2006
EXHIBIT (10)(a)
CTS Corporation Pension Plan Amendments
Effective April 1, 2006
Section 1.1 of the CTS Corporation Pension Plan (the “Plan”), Establishment of the Plan, shall be revised to add
the following paragraph:
The Asheville Division Plan document was amended in 1986 to freeze the Asheville Division Plan
upon the closure of CTS’ Asheville, North Carolina plant. This plan document, including
Appendix C, the prior Resistor Network Division Plan document, was amended effective April
1, 2006, to close the Plan to new participants, including employees who are hired or re-hired or
would otherwise become eligible to participate in the Plan, on or after that date.
The last sentence of Section 1.3 of the Plan, Applicability , shall be revised to read as follows:
The rights, duties eligibility for benefits and amounts of benefits, if any, for each former Employee
and for each retired Employee, including the Spouse of any such Employee receiving, or who
may become eligible to receive, any benefit under the Plan, has been, or shall be, determined in
accordance with the Plan as in effect on the date of the first to occur of the following events,
provided the Employee is entitled to receive a benefit at the time of such event (a)Employee’s
termination of employment with the Company and Subsidiaries, (b) retirement from employment
with the Company and Subsidiaries, or (c) death.
The first sentence of Section 2.1 (p) of the Plan, Definitions , shall be revised to read as follows:
“Employee” means a person, who is either employed to work or who in fact does work 1,000 or
more Hours of Service for an Employer on monthly salary pay status during his first year of
employment, which is a period of twelve consecutive months beginning on the date an Employee
is first credited with an Hour of Service, or, thereafter, during the Plan Year; provided, however,
that the first Plan Year shall include the last day of the Emplo