Amount of accrued employee benefits.

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Represents the number of new participants that may enter in the plan.

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Number of employee offered with voluntary early retirement incentive Program.

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The percentage of employees who opted into the voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP).

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Weighted average rate for present value of future retirement benefits cash flows, used to determine benefit obligation of defined benefit plan.

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Weighted average rate of return on plan assets, reflecting average rate of earnings expected on existing plan assets and expected contributions, used to determine net periodic benefit cost of defined benefit plan.

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Amount of payment, which decreases benefit obligation of defined benefit plan, for irrevocable action relieving primary responsibility for benefit obligation and eliminating risk for obligation and assets used to effect settlement. Transaction constituting settlement includes, but is not limited to, making lump-sum cash payment to participant in exchange for their rights to receive specified benefits and purchasing nonparticipating annuity contract. Excludes decreases to benefit obligation for remeasurement due to settlement.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of increase in benefit obligation for benefits provided to employees payable from defined benefit plan or payable upon retirement.

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Amount of discretionary contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan.

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Details) $ in Thousands		1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Details) $ in Thousands	Mar. 22, 2019	Feb. 28, 2019 USD ($) employee	Dec. 29, 2019 USD ($) person	Dec. 30, 2018 USD ($)
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Matching contributions			$ 2,100	$ 2,500
Pension plan
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Number of new participants \| person			0
Further benefits			$ 0
Discount rate (as a percent)			3.48%	4.42%
Expected long-term return on plan assets (as a percent)			7.75%	7.75%
Special termination benefits			$ 6,835
ERIP
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Number of employee offered with voluntary early retirement incentive Program \| employee		450
Percentage of employees opted for voluntary early retirement incentive Program		50.00%
Lump sum pension and termination payments		$ 35,100
Discount rate (as a percent)	4.10%
Expected long-term return on plan assets (as a percent)	7.75%