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accession: "0000950170-23-026069"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000716006"
company_name: "Yellow Corp"
filed_at: "2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T08:40:20.724318+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yellow Corporation amends bylaws to remove CEO as ex-officio committee member

## Summary
- Board approved and adopted the First Amendment to Bylaws on June 1, 2023.
- Amendment removes the CEO's automatic standing as ex-officio member of each board committee.
- Change was effective immediately upon board approval.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-026069
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000716006
- company_name: Yellow Corp
- filed_at: 2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716006/000095017023026069/0000950170-23-026069-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716006/000095017023026069/yell-20230601.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Yellow Corp: Removed reference to Chief Executive Officer as ex-officio member of each board committee on which he did not otherwise serve, and amended Section 5.3(b) accordingly (effective 2023-06-01).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-01
  source text: the board of directors (the “Board”) of Yellow Corporation (the “Company”) approved and adopted an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, adopted as of February 4, 2021 (the “Bylaws”), to remove reference to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company as an ex-officio member of each committee of the Board on which he did not otherwise serve, which ex-officio service was subject to the conditions previously included in the Bylaws, and to amend and restate Section 5.3(b) of the Bylaws to delete such reference.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/716006/000095017023026069/0000950170-23-026069-index.htm

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