Benefits for Salaried Canadian Employees

Compuware Corporation supports full-time salaried Canadian employees with comprehensive benefits to help balance their professional and personal lives. Employees are eligible for Compuware's comprehensive benefit program, which includes coverage for drug, health, vision, dental, life and disability. Additionally, Compuware offers a global employee stock purchase plan and access to an employee assistance program.

Drug/Health/Vision Benefits

The drug, health and vision plan provides coverage to employees and their family with no annual deductibles. Covered health charges include, but are not limited to, semi-private hospitalization, out-of-Canada medical emergency, emergency travel assistance, ambulance, private duty nursing, medical equipment and supplies, dental care for accidental injury, chiropractor, physiotherapist, massage therapist, osteopath, podiatrist, psychologist, dietician, speech therapist, Naturopath, acupuncture, diagnostic laboratory, x-rays, hearing care, etc. The Pay-Direct Drugs will cover 90% of the drug and dispensing fees. Employees will pay 10%, with a minimum of $5.00 and a maximum of $75.00. The vision plan provides one standard eye exam per 24 months and coverage for lenses, frames, and contacts up to $200 in 24 months. A modest employee contribution is required to participate in the Drug, Health and Vision plan.

Dental Benefits

The dental plan provides coverage to employees and their family with no annual deductibles. Preventative and minor restorative treatments (root canals, gum treatments, denture maintenance and oral surgery, etc) are covered at 100%. Major treatments like dentures, crowns and bridgework are payable at 80%. The annual maximum benefit is $2,000 per individual per calendar year. Orthodontic services are covered at 50% with a lifetime maximum benefit of $2,000 per individual. A modest employee contribution is required to participate in the Dental plan.

Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, and Dependent Life Insurance

Compuware provides each employee with basic life, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), and dependent life insurance at no cost. Basic life and AD&D are equal to two times an employee's annual basic earnings, up to a maximum of $750,000. Dependent life insurance provides $10,000 of coverage for a spouse and $5,000 of coverage for each child. Employees also have the opportunity to purchase additional coverage for themselves and their family.

Short and Long-Term Disability Coverage

Compuware provides short-term disability coverage to all full-time salaried employees at no cost. Short-term disability coverage provides base salary continuation in the event an employee is deemed totally disabled due to injury or illness. During the first 30 days of an approved disability coverage is equal to 100% of base salary. Salary continuance for total disability from the 31st day of disability through the 90th day is covered at 66 2/3% of base salary. Long-term disability provides 60% of base salary, up to a maximum of $10,000 per month (tax-free) if the total disability extends beyond 90 days. Employees are required to pay the long-term disability premium.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Compuware provides employees and their immediate family members access to an EAP. The EAP is a voluntary, confidential, short-term counseling and advisory service that connects employees and their immediate family members to a network of dedicated professionals who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Vacation

Canadian full-time salaried employees with less than five years of service will accrue three weeks of vacation time per year. The amount of vacation an employee will be eligible for in their first year of employment will depend upon their date of hire during the fiscal year. After completing five years of service, these employees will accrue four weeks of vacation time per year. Part time employees accrue vacation time in accordance with current Employment/Labour Laws in the Province of employment.

Holidays

Compuware will offer Canadian statutory holidays for employees which include: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. In addition, statutory holidays specific to a province will be recognized as well.

Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Designed to provide Compuware employees worldwide with the opportunity to share success of the company through equity ownership, this plan provides employees with convenient access to Compuware stock at discounted share prices, and low transaction fees.

Employee Referral Bonus

An employee may be eligible to receive a bonus for a referral that results in a professional or managerial level salaried hire.

Wellness and Work Life Benefits

Compuware employees enjoy a wide variety of discounts and special offers to select businesses and services across Canada. Some of the discounts include exercise and recreational equipment, hotels, general merchandise and services, insurance, vehicle and health clubs.

Professional Development

Our vision is to develop the world's best Information Technology professionals. We will achieve this by educating employees on the technologies and skills important to Compuware's business. Compuware is committed to supporting employees in their quest for knowledge and enhanced skills. Compuware views learning as a continuous activity and provides busy IT professionals with business-critical knowledge and development through several offerings.

E-Learning Program

Compuware offers its IT professionals access to broad coverage of today's relevant technologies and IT skills through its e-learning provider, SkillSoft, e-learning resources. This offering includes a library of over 1000 technical courses, providing several thousand hours of course instruction in six solution areas: software development, operating systems and server technologies, network technologies, enterprise database systems, web design and project effectiveness. Employees have access to thousands of online books from Books24x7, and can use any of the 50 practice certification exams for leading IT industry certification exams. This offering also provides more than 700 interactive multi-path simulation experiences, an on-line technical library, chat forums of like technology expertise, mentoring, and individual designed learning plans. Through this program, via a single search, Compuware IT Professionals can identify all types of content available to them on a given topic, including courses, on-line books and referenceware, simulations, practice industry certification exams, on-line and live mentors, express guides, skill briefs and job aids, as well as custom content developed exclusively for Compuware. Learning events can be easily accessed anywhere, anytime through, SkillPort, SkillSoft learning management platform. This platform allows for 24-hour availability of learning activities.

Compuware Product Education

Education on Compuware products is available via instructor-led education at Compuware's branches and via WebEx. In addition to course delivery during the day, evening and some Saturday classes can be arranged for assigned Professional Services staff. All classes can be tailored to meet a specific group's needs.

Certifications

Compuware recognizes the importance of industry certifications to IT professionals. Upon passing, Compuware provides reimbursement for industry certification exams that are related and relevant to Compuware's business. In addition to industry certifications, Compuware also offers it's own Certification Program, which consists of four levels for career development for our IT Professionals. Those levels are Compuware Certified Technician, Compuware Senior Certified Technician, Compuware Information Systems Consultant and Compuware Fellows. Compuware's Certification Program is designed for employees to demonstrate and add to their technical and professional skills. The aim of the program is to:

Provide a learning path for technical employees with access to the latest technologies
Educate employees on specific Compuware products
Assess skills relative to industry and company standards
Illustrate value to customers (marketing advantage - "our staff are certified professionals")

Performance Management

Effective employee performance management is at the heart of Compuware's business. Fair, accurate and frequent feedback combined with a formal process for recognizing employee talents and contributions-as well as areas for growth-creates an environment that fosters career development. Maintaining such an environment establishes a critical foundation for Compuware's business success. Employees, who have an opportunity to do what they do best, and to get better at it, are more committed, more passionate and more effective in their work. Compuware's performance management process provides managers and employees with the tools and structure to conduct this activity effectively.

Performance Matters is Compuware's global performance management process, which is used by all Compuware managers and employees to direct individual effort toward creating value for Compuware. This collaborative process is intended to:

Identify important work activities, behaviors and outcomes expected
Encourage open discussion about successes and learning's
Review past accomplishments
Plan for current and future employee development
Align individual contribution to compensation decisions

The three phases of performance management: Phase 1: set & clarify expectations, Phase 2: coach & provide feedback, and Phase 3: appraise performance & review salary. All support the ultimate goal: employees empowered to perform at their highest level. Managers and employees have responsibilities within each phase, with some tasks initiated by the manager and others that are led by the employee.