EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS [Abstract]

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

NOTE 16 - EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

The Company offers a 401(k) plan which is eligible to substantially all employees in the United States. For the year ended December 31, 2015 as well as the first quarter of 2016, the Company elected to match employee contributions at a rate of 50 percent of up to 4 percent of salary deferral. The Company contributed $0.2 million, $0.4 million, and $2.6 million to the 401(k) plan in the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively.  In 2016 the Company suspended indefinitely the employee match program. The Company contributed $0.4 million in the first quarter of 2016 to the 401(k) plan.  No other contributions were made during the remainder of 2016.  The Company reinstated the employee match program in October 2017 contributing $0.2 million to the 401(k) plan for 2017.