During the Employment Period, Employee shall be eligible to participate in the same benefit plans and programs in which other similarly situated Company employees are eligible to participate, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and programs in effect from time to time; provided, however, that the Company agrees that if at any time during the Employment Period on or after January 1, 2018, the number of hours Employee is regularly scheduled to work do not meet the hours-worked requirement of the Company’s group medical plan, Employee (and Employee’s eligible dependents) shall have the option to continue to participate in the Company’s group medical plan as an eligible employee for the remainder of the Employment Period and the Company will pay or waive 100% of the group medical plan premiums otherwise payable by Employee during such period to enable Employee’s continued participation without the payment of any premium that would be required of active employees participating in the group medical plan, and the Company will treat the premium payments as taxable compensation to Employee and subject to applicable withholding (which Employee agrees may be withheld from his Base Salary). The Company shall not, however, by reason of this Section 5 , be obligated to institute, maintain, or refrain from changing, amending, or discontinuing, any such plan or policy, so long as such changes are similarly applicable to similarly situated Company employees generally.