RESTRUCTURING

Delphi’s restructuring activities are undertaken as necessary to implement management’s strategy, streamline operations, take advantage of available capacity and resources, and ultimately achieve net cost reductions. These activities generally relate to the realignment of existing manufacturing capacity and closure of facilities and other exit or disposal activities, as it relates to executing Delphi’s strategy, either in the normal course of business or pursuant to significant restructuring programs.

As part of Delphi's continued efforts to optimize its cost structure, it has undertaken several restructuring programs which include workforce reductions as well as plant closures. The Company recorded employee-related and other restructuring charges related to these programs totaling approximately $177 million during the year ended December 31, 2015. These charges were primarily related to Delphi's on-going restructuring programs focused on aligning manufacturing capacity with the current automotive production levels in Europe and South America and the continued rotation of our manufacturing footprint to low cost locations within these regions. These charges include the recognition of approximately $68 million of employee-related and other costs related to the initiation of a plant closure of a European manufacturing site within the Powertrain Systems segment in the fourth quarter of 2015. Future cash payments for this restructuring action are expected to be principally complete by the end of 2017.

During the year ended December 31, 2014, Delphi recorded employee-related and other restructuring charges totaling approximately $140 million, which include the recognition of approximately $35 million of employee-related and other costs related to the initiation of a workforce reduction at a European manufacturing site within the Powertrain Systems segment. During the year ended December 31, 2013, Delphi recorded employee related and other restructuring charges totaling approximately $137 million, which were primarily related to European restructuring programs, as well as to programs resulting from the integration of the Motorized Vehicles Division of FCI (“MVL”), which was acquired in the third quarter of 2012.

Additionally, the Company recorded $3 million, $4 million and $8 million of restructuring costs within discontinued operations related to the Thermal Systems business during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Restructuring charges for employee separation and termination benefits are paid either over the severance period or in a lump sum in accordance with either statutory requirements or individual agreements. Delphi incurred cash expenditures related to its restructuring programs of approximately $133 million and $162 million in the years ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively.

The following table summarizes the restructuring charges recorded for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 by operating segment:



	Year Ended December 31,
	2015		2014		2013
	(in millions)
Electrical/Electronic Architecture	$	37	$	57	$	28
Powertrain Systems	115		55		53
Electronics and Safety	25		28		56
Total	$	177	$	140	$	137

The table below summarizes the activity in the restructuring liability for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014:



	Employee Termination Benefits Liability			Other Exit Costs Liability			Total
	(in millions)
Accrual balance at January 1, 2014	$	130		$	4		$	134
Provision for estimated expenses incurred during the year	139			1			140
Payments made during the year	(159		)	(3		)	(162		)
Foreign currency and other	(15		)	—			(15		)
Accrual balance at December 31, 2014	$	95		$	2		$	97
Provision for estimated expenses incurred during the year	$	175		$	2		$	177
Payments made during the year	(131		)	(2		)	(133		)
Foreign currency and other	(10		)	—			(10		)
Accrual balance at December 31, 2015	$	129		$	2		$	131