Employee Benefits

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Short-Term Incentive Plans ("STI Plans"). We have annual short-term incentive compensation plans for senior management and certain other employees payable at our election in cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock. Amounts earned under STI Plans are based on our adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"), modified for certain safety, quality, delivery, cost and individual performance factors. The Adjusted EBITDA targets are determined based on the return on adjusted net assets. Most of our production facilities have similar programs for both hourly and salaried employees. As of March 31, 2020, we had a liability of $3.7 million recorded within Accrued salaries, wages and related expenses for estimated probable future payments relating to the three month performance period of our 2020 STI Plan.

Pension and Similar Benefit Plans. We provide contributions to: (i) defined contribution 401(k) savings plans for salaried employees and certain hourly employees; (ii) a non-qualified, unfunded, unsecured plan of deferred compensation (see "Deferred Compensation Plan" below); (iii) multi-employer pension plans sponsored by the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, the International Association of Machinists and certain other unions at certain of our production facilities; and (iv) a defined benefit pension plan for salaried employees at our London, Ontario (Canada) facility.

Deferred Compensation Plan. We have a non-qualified, unfunded, unsecured plan of deferred compensation for certain employees who would otherwise suffer a loss of benefits under our defined contribution plan as a result of the limitations imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Despite the plan being an unfunded plan, we make an annual contribution to a rabbi trust to fulfill future funding obligations as contemplated by the terms of the plan. The assets in the trust are held in various investment funds at certain registered investment companies and are accounted for as equity investments with changes in fair value recorded within Other (expense) income, net (see Note 9). Assets of our deferred compensation plan are included in Other assets, classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy and are measured and recorded at fair value based on their quoted market prices. The fair value of these assets at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 was $7.6 million and $8.1 million, respectively. Offsetting liabilities relating to the deferred compensation plan are included in Other accrued liabilities and Long-term liabilities.

Salaried VEBA Postretirement Obligation. Certain retirees who retired prior to 2004 and certain employees who were hired prior to February 2002 and have subsequently retired or will retire with the requisite age and service, along with their surviving spouses and eligible dependents, are eligible to participate in a voluntary employees' beneficiary association ("VEBA") that provides healthcare cost, medical cost and long-term care insurance cost reimbursement benefits ("Salaried VEBA"). We have an ongoing obligation with no express termination date to make annual variable cash contributions up to a maximum of $2.9 million to the Salaried VEBA. We paid $2.9 million with respect to 2019 during the quarter ended March 31, 2020. We account for the Salaried VEBA as a defined benefit plan in our financial statements.

The following table presents the total (benefit) expense related to all postretirement benefit plans for the periods presented (in millions of dollars):



	Quarter Ended
	March 31,
	2020			2019
Defined contribution plans¹	$	3.9		$	3.9
Deferred compensation plan¹	(0.4		)	0.7
Multiemployer pension plans¹	1.3			1.2
Net periodic postretirement benefit cost relating to Salaried VEBA²	1.2			1.7
Total	$	6.0		$	7.5

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¹	Substantially all of the expense related to employee benefits are in Cost of products sold, excluding depreciation and amortization and other items ("COGS") with the remaining balance in Selling, general, administrative, research and development ("SG&A and R&D").


²	The current service cost component of Net periodic postretirement benefit cost relating to Salaried VEBA is included within our Statements of Consolidated Income in SG&A and R&D for all periods presented. All other components of Net

periodic postretirement benefit cost relating to Salaried VEBA are included within Other (expense) income, net, on our Statements of Consolidated Income.

Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost. Our results of operations included the following impacts associated with our Canadian pension plan and the Salaried VEBA: (i) a charge for service rendered by employees; (ii) a charge for accretion of interest; (iii) a benefit for the expected return on plan assets; (iv) amortization of prior service costs associated with plan amendments; and (v) amortization of net actuarial differences. Net periodic benefit cost related to our Canadian pension plan was not material for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019.

The following table presents the components of Net periodic postretirement benefit cost relating to Salaried VEBA for the periods presented (in millions of dollars):



	Quarter Ended
	March 31,
	2020			2019
Salaried VEBA¹:
Interest cost	$	0.6		$	0.8
Expected return on plan assets	(0.7		)	(0.6		)
Amortization of prior service cost²	1.2			1.4
Amortization of net actuarial loss	0.1			0.1
Total net periodic postretirement benefit cost relating to Salaried VEBA	$	1.2		$	1.7

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¹	The service cost was insignificant for all periods presented.

We amortize prior service cost on a straight-line basis over the average remaining years of service to full eligibility for benefits of the active plan participants.