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Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits
 3 Months Ended
Apr. 02, 2016
Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits
Note 8 – Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits

The Company maintains various retirement benefit plans.

Defined Benefit Pension Plans

The following table shows the components of the net periodic pension cost for the first fiscal quarters of 2016 and 2015 for the Company's defined benefit pension plans:

  
Fiscal quarter ended
April 2, 2016
  
Fiscal quarter ended
April 4, 2015
 
  
U.S. Plans
  
Non-U.S. Plans
  
U.S. Plans
  
Non-U.S. Plans
 
             
Net service cost
 
$
-
  
$
774
  
$
-
  
$
829
 
Interest cost
  
3,000
   
1,353
   
2,943
   
1,432
 
Expected return on plan assets
  
(2,825
)
  
(534
)
  
(3,385
)
  
(454
)
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)
  
36
   
12
   
16
   
-
 
Amortization of losses
  
1,650
   
1,171
   
2,022
   
1,299
 
Curtailment and settlement losses
  
-
   
195
   
-
   
-
 
Net periodic benefit cost
 
$
1,861
  
$
2,971
  
$
1,596
  
$
3,106
 

In the second fiscal quarter of 2015, the Company began the process of terminating the Vishay Retirement Plan, the Company's U.S. qualified pension plan.  Plan participants will not be adversely affected by the plan termination, but rather will have their benefits either converted into a lump sum cash payment or an annuity contract placed with an insurance carrier.

The completion of this proposed termination and settlement is contingent upon the receipt of a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and meeting certain IRS and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation ("PBGC") requirements, which is not expected to be received prior to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2016.
 
As of the last fiscal year-end measurement date (December 31, 2015), the Vishay Retirement Plan was fully-funded on a GAAP basis.  In order to terminate the plan in accordance with IRS and PBGC requirements, the Company is required to fully fund the plan on a termination basis and will commit to contribute the additional assets necessary to do so.  The amount necessary to do so is not yet known, but is currently estimated to be between zero and $35,000.

The Company contributed $16,966 to the Company's Taiwanese pension plans to improve the funded status of those plans in 2016.

Other Postretirement Benefits

The following table shows the components of the net periodic benefit cost for the first fiscal quarters of 2016 and 2015 for the Company's other postretirement benefit plans:

  
Fiscal quarter ended
April 2, 2016
  
Fiscal quarter ended
April 4, 2015
 
  
U.S. Plans
  
Non-U.S. Plans
  
U.S. Plans
  
Non-U.S. Plans
 
             
Service cost
 
$
31
  
$
67
  
$
30
  
$
69
 
Interest cost
  
85
   
36
   
83
   
37
 
Amortization of prior service (credit)
  
(209
)
  
-
   
(209
)
  
-
 
Amortization of losses (gains)
  
(8
)
  
17
   
22
   
19
 
Net periodic benefit cost
 
$
(101
)
 
$
120
  
$
(74
)
 
$
125