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Employee Benefit Plans | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract] |
401(k) Plan | 14. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS 401(k) Plan In November 1998, we established the Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (the “401(k) Plan”). All full-time IES employees are eligible to participate on the first day of the month subsequent to completing sixty days of service and attaining age twenty-one. Participants become vested in our matching contributions f ollowing three years of service. After suspending Company matching under the 401(k) Plan i n February 2009, we reinstated the employee match in March of 2013. We recognized $177, $0, and $0, respectively in matching expenses in 2013, 2012 and 2011. Infrastructure Solutions has two 401(k) plans. The first provides for employees covered by coll ective bargaining agreements and has no provision for employer contributions. The second provides for employees outside collective bargaining agreements and has a provision for employer contributions. We recognized $4 in matching expense in 2013. Executive Savings Plan Under the Executive Deferred Compensation Plan adopted on July 1, 2004 (the “Executive Savings Plan”), certain employees are permitted to defer a portion (up to 75%) of their base salary and/or bonus for a Plan Year. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, credit one or more participants with an employer deferral (contribution) in such amount as the Committee may choose (“Employer Contribution”). The Employer Contribution, if any, may be a fixed dollar amount, a fixed percentage of the participant’s compensation, base salary, or bonus, or a “matching” amount with respect to all or part of the participant’s elective deferrals for such plan year, and/or any combination of the foregoin g as the Committee may choose. Post Retirement Benefit Plans Certain individuals at one of the Company’s locations are entitled to receive fixed annual payments that reach a maximum amount, as specified in the related agreements, for a ten year period following retirement or, in some cases, the attainment of 62 year s of age. We recognize the unfunded status of the plan as a non-current liability in our Consolidated Balance S heet. Benefits vest 50% after ten years of service, which increases by 10% per annum until benefits are fully vested after 15 years of service. We had an unfunded benefit liability of $828 and $827 recorded as of September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Multiemployer Pension Plan Infrastructure Solutions participates in a multiemployer direct benefit pension plan for employees covered under our collective bargaining agreement. We do not administer the plan. We do not significantly participate in this plan. As of December 31, 2012, this plan was funded at 84.9%.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for an entity's employee compensation and benefit plans, including, but not limited to, postemployment and postretirement benefit plans, defined benefit pension plans, defined contribution plans, non-qualified and supplemental benefit plans, deferred compensation, share-based compensation, life insurance, severance, health care, unemployment and other benefit plans. + References No definition available. + Details
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