BFIN-2012.31.12-10-K-EX10.35






FORM OF AMENDMENT NO. 1 OF THE BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit  10.35
AMENDMENT NO. 1 OF THE
BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT NO. 1 of the EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT by and between BankFinancial Corporation (the “Company”) and Name (the “Executive”) dated October 20, 2008 (the “Agreement”), which amendment is effective on December 31, 2012 (the “Effective Date”).
WHEREAS, pursuant to and subject to Section 12 of the Agreement, the parties may amend the Agreement by a written agreement.
WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement in accordance with Internal Revenue Service Guidance under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
		
	1.
	The last two sentences of Section 6(b) are replaced with the following:


“Amounts payable under Subsection (ii) and (iv) of this Section 6(b) shall be paid as provided in Section (h) and as may be required to be deferred pursuant to Section 25.”
		
	2.
	The last two sentences of Section 6(c) are replaced with the following:


“Amounts payable under Subsection (ii) and (iv) of this Section 6(c) shall be paid as provided in Section (h) and as may be required to be deferred pursuant to Section 25.”
		
	3.
	The last two sentences of Section 6(e) are replaced with the following:


“Amounts payable under this Section 6(e) shall be paid as provided in Section (h) and as may be required to be deferred pursuant to Section 25.”
		
	4.
	The last sentence of Section 6(f) is replaced with the following:


“Amounts payable under this Section 6(f) shall be paid as provided in Section (h).”
		
	5.
	Section 6(h) is amended to read as follows:


“(h)    General Release and Time of Payment.  In consideration of the Company's agreements with respect to the monetary payments and other benefits provided for in Section 6 of this Agreement (which payments and benefits exceed the nature and scope of that to which Executive would have been legally entitled to receive absent this Agreement), and as a condition precedent to Executive's receipt of such payments and other benefits, Executive (or in the event of Executive's death, Executive's executor, trustee, administrator or personal representative, as applicable), shall execute and deliver to the Company a general release in favor of the Company and its Affiliates (as defined below) not later than twenty‐two (22) days after Executive's termination of employment, releasing all claims, demands, causes of actions and liabilities arising out of this Agreement, Executive's employment or the termination thereof, including, but not limited to, claims, demands, causes of action and liabilities for wages, back pay, front pay, attorney's fees, other sums of money, insurance, benefits, or contracts; and all claims, demands, causes of actions and liabilities arising out of or under the statutory, common law or other rules, orders or regulations of the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof, whether now existed or hereinafter enacted or adopted, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, and subject to the applicable waiting or rescission periods thereunder, the Company shall pay the amounts due under the applicable Section 6(b), (c), (e), or (f) in one (1) lump sum on the sixtieth (60th) day following the date of Executive's termination of employment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, the general release shall not release, and shall expressly reserve, any unperformed obligations of the Company under this Agreement, or of the Bank under the 2006 EIP or the Bank Agreement, to Executive.”
6.In all other respects, the Agreement shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect.











IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BankFinancial Corporation has caused this Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized officer and Executive has signed this Agreement as set forth below.
	
		
	BANKFINANCIAL CORPORATION
	EXECUTIVE

	By:


Its:
Date:  December ____, 2012
	





Date:  December ____, 2012






Named Executive Officers who are parties to this amendment:
F. Morgan Gasior
Paul A. Cloutier
James J. Brennan