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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-23-002934"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JOB"
cik: "0000040570"
company_name: "GEE Group Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T09:44:32.856502+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEE Group enters new 5-year employment agreements with CEO, CFO, COO and adopts staggered board

## Summary
- CEO Derek Dewan gets $518K base salary; CFO Kim Thorpe and COO Alex Stuckey each get $331K base, all with annual bonus potential.
- Agreements run through April 26, 2028, with automatic 1-year extensions; include standard termination, severance, change-of-control and non-compete clauses.
- Board fixed at 7 directors, divided into three classes with staggered 3-year terms; current directors classified: Class I Isaac, Camden; Class II Moore, Gormly; Class III Tanous, Vetrano, Dewan.
- Indemnification agreements entered with officers and board members to fullest extent permitted by Illinois law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-23-002934
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JOB
- cik: 0000040570
- company_name: GEE Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40570/000147793223002934/0001477932-23-002934-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40570/000147793223002934/job_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GEE Group Inc.: Amended Article III, Section 2 of By-Laws to fix number of directors at seven and institute staggered board with three classes (effective 2023-04-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-27
  source text: On April 27, 2023, the Board of the Company approved an amendment to Article III, Section 2 of the Amended and Restated By-Laws (“the “ By-Law Amendment ”) of the Company (i) to fix the number of directors at seven (7) directors; and (ii) to institute a staggered Board in accordance with the terms of Section 8.10(e) of the Illinois Business Corporation Act dividing the Board into three classes, each of which shall serve for a term of three years, with only one class of directors being elected in each year.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40570/000147793223002934/0001477932-23-002934-index.htm

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