Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 29, 2015

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

Employee Benefit Plans

The Company has a defined benefit pension plan and postretirement healthcare benefit plans that cover certain employees of the Motorcycles segment. The Company also has unfunded supplemental employee retirement plan agreements (SERPA) with certain employees which were instituted to replace benefits lost under the Tax Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Net periodic benefit costs are allocated among selling, administrative and engineering expense, cost of goods sold and inventory. Amounts capitalized in inventory are not significant. Components of net periodic benefit costs were as follows (in thousands):

	Three months ended
	March 29, 2015			March 30, 2014
Pension and SERPA Benefits
Service cost	$	10,010		$	7,874
Interest cost	21,836			21,731
Expected return on plan assets	(36,232		)	(34,184		)
Amortization of unrecognized:
Prior service cost	109			279
Net loss	13,677			9,140
Net periodic benefit cost	$	9,400		$	4,840
Postretirement Healthcare Benefits
Service cost	$	2,065		$	1,754
Interest cost	3,541			4,220
Expected return on plan assets	(2,877		)	(2,607		)
Amortization of unrecognized:
Prior service credit	(804		)	(963		)
Net loss	993			1,182
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,918		$	3,586

No pension contributions to qualified plans are required in 2015. The Company expects it will continue to make on-going contributions related to current benefit payments for SERPA and postretirement healthcare plans.