Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or of Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On April 28, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Jeffrey
Jacobs, 44, as Head of Accounting & Financial Reporting serving as the principal
accounting officer of the Company, effective as of May 1, 2020. Mr. Jacobs has
served as our Vice President, Finance since December 2016, and as Director,
Finance from April 2015 when he joined the Company until December 2016. Mr.
Jacobs is a certified public accountant (inactive) and holds a Bachelor of
Business Administration (Accounting) degree and a Master of Accountancy degree
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In connection with his appointment to the principal accounting officer of the
Company, Mr. Jacobs will be paid an annual base salary of $240,000. Further, Mr.
Jacobs is eligible to participate in Ceridian's variable incentive plan on the
same terms as similarly situated executives and with a target annual payout
based upon 40% of his annual base salary. Mr. Jacobs will further be eligible to
participate in such other benefit programs as made available to executives of
Ceridian.
Mr. Jacobs has no family relationships that are required to be disclosed under
Item 401(d) of Regulation S-K and is not a party to any transaction requiring
disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. (the "Company" or "Ceridian") held its 2020 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") on April 28, 2020. As of the
March 2, 2020 record date (the "Record Date"), there were 142,667,267 shares of
common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share ("Common Stock"), issued
and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. In addition, the
holder of the share of special voting preferred stock ("Special Voting Share")
was entitled to cast a number of votes at the Annual Meeting equal to the number
of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exchange of the exchangeable shares of
Ceridian AcquisitionCo ULC (the "Exchangeable Shares") then outstanding as of
the Record Date. As of the Record Date, the Exchangeable Shares outstanding were
exchangeable for 2,171,157 shares of Common Stock.
In total, 142,667,267 shares of Common Stock together with 2,171,157
Exchangeable Shares then represented by the Special Voting Share were
outstanding as of the Record Date, constituting 144,838,424 votes represented by
the outstanding shares of the Common Stock and Exchangeable Shares ("Voting
Stock"). 140,138,525 shares of Voting Stock were represented at the Annual
Meeting (in person or by proxy), constituting 96.76% of the outstanding shares
entitled to vote and a quorum to conduct business at the Annual Meeting.
At the Annual Meeting, stockholders of the Company (1) approved the election of
Deborah A. Farrington and Thomas M. Hagerty as Class II directors, each to serve
for a term of three years ending at Ceridian's 2023 Annual Meeting of
Stockholders; (2) approved "1-year" for the advisory, non-binding vote on
frequency of future advisory votes on Ceridian's named executive officers'
compensation ("say on frequency"); (3) approved the advisory, non-binding vote
on the compensation of Ceridian's named executive officers ("say on pay"); and
(4) ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as Ceridian's registered public
accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
The final voting results of the Voting Stock are set forth below:
For Against Withhold/Abstain Broker Non-Votes
Proposal One -
Election of Two Class
II Directors:
Deborah A. Farrington 120,946,993 0 17,415,821 1,775,711
Thomas M. Hagerty 105,797,296 0 32,565,518 1,775,711
One Year Two Years Three Years Withhold/Abstain Broker Non-Votes
Proposal Two - 138,207,145 3,324 117,440 34,905 1,775,711
Advisory Vote
on the
Frequency of
Future
Advisory Votes
on Ceridian's
Named
Executive
Officers'
Compensation
For Against Withhold/Abstain Broker Non-Votes
Proposal Three 74,203,663 64,121,935 37,216 1,775,711
- Advisory Vote
on the
Compensation of
Ceridian's
Named Executive
Officers
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For Against Withhold/Abstain Broker Non-Votes
Proposal Four - 139,526,887 582,392 29,246 0
Ratification of
KPMG LLP, as
Ceridian HCM
Holding Inc.'s
independent
registered
public
accounting firm
for the fiscal
year ending
December 31,
2020
Regarding Ceridian's other directors (i) each of David D. Ossip, Andrea S. Rosen
and Gerald C. Throop continue to serve as a director for a term ending at
Ceridian's 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and (ii) Brent B. Bickett, Ronald
F. Clarke, and Ganesh B. Rao continue to serve as a director for a term ending
at Ceridian's 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
After consideration of the results of the advisory vote on the frequency of
future advisory votes on executive compensation in Proposal Two above and other
factors, on April 28, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company determined
that advisory votes on executive compensation will be submitted to stockholders
on an annual basis until the next advisory stockholder vote on the frequency of
these advisory votes is held, which is currently required to occur no later than
the Company's annual meeting of stockholders held in 2026.
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