Employee Benefit Plans

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Compensation And Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

8.    EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Defined Contribution Plans—The Company sponsors a qualified defined contribution plan covering substantially all its employees. The Company suspended the matching contributions effective January 2009.

Defined Benefit Plans—The Company participates in several multi-employer pension plans that provide benefits to certain employees under collective bargaining agreements.  The risks of participating in these multi-employer plans are different from single-employer plans in the following aspects:  (1) assets contributed to the multi-employer plan by one employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers, (2) if a participating employer stops contributing to the plan, the unfunded obligations of the plan may be borne by the remaining participating employers, and (3) if the Company chooses to stop participating in some of its multi-employer plans, the Company may be required to pay those plans an amount based on the underfunded status of the plan, referred to as a withdrawal liability.  The Company’s total contributions to these plans were $1.0 million, $0.6 million, and $0.6 million in the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013, respectively.  A majority of the contributions were to the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan.  The Company does not contribute more than 5% percent of total contributions for any of these multi-employer pension plans.  The Company’s participation in the multi-employer pension plans as of December 31, 2015 is outlined in the table below.

					ExpirationDate
		Pension	Financial		of Collective-	12/31/2015
		Protection Act	Improvement	Surcharge	Bargaining	Company
Legal Name of Plan	EIN-PlanNumber	Zone Status	Plan	Imposed	Agreement	Participants
Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan	91-6145047-001	Funded>80%	No	No	12/31/2016 to	89
					4/30/2018
Southern California Lumber Industry Retirement Fund	95-6035266 - 001	Funded > 80%	No	No	6/30/2017	14
Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Plan	36-6044243 - 001	Funded < 65%	Implemented	No	12/27/2020	2

During 2015, Huttig completely withdrew employees from an existing multi-employer pension plan with the Central States Pension Fund, or the “Pension Fund,” and entered into a new agreement with the Pension Fund, which adopted an alternative method for determining an employer's unfunded obligation that would limit Huttig’s funding obligations to the Pension Fund in the future. As part of the agreement, Pension Fund participants were moved to a new pension plan sponsored by the Pension Fund. In connection with the complete withdrawal from the Pension Fund, Huttig was subject to a withdrawal liability of approximately $0.4 million which was paid in December 2015.