XML 36 R25.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.22.1
Note 18 - Post-retirement Benefits
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Notes to Financial Statements  
Retirement Benefits [Text Block]

18.

Post-retirement benefits

 

Amounts recognized in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations in respect of the defined benefit schemes were as follows (in thousands):

 

  

Three Months Ended March 31,

 
  

2022

  

2021

 
         

Amortization of prior service credit

 $61  $61 

Interest cost

  (1,054)  (837)

Expected return on plan assets

  1,428   1,181 

Total

 $435  $405 

 

The Company contributed $1.3 million and $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, to defined benefit schemes.

 

Amortization of prior service credit, interest cost and expected return on plan assets have been recognized in “Other income, net” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

Executive Deferred Compensation Plan

 

The Company maintains the Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (the “EDC Plan”) for certain current and former Frank’s employees. Effective during 2015, this plan was closed to new entrants. The purpose of the EDC Plan was to provide participants with an opportunity to defer receipt of a portion of their salary, bonus, and other specified cash compensation. Participant contributions were immediately vested. Company contributions vested after five years of service. Participant benefits under the EDC Plan are paid from the general funds of the Company or a grantor trust, commonly referred to as a Rabbi Trust, created for the purpose of informally funding the EDC Plan. The assets of the EDC Plan’s trust are invested in corporate-owned, split-dollar life insurance policies and mutual funds.

 

As of  March 31, 2022, the total liability related to the EDC Plan was $8.5 million and was included in “Other non-current liabilities” on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet. As of March 31, 2022, the cash surrender value of life insurance policies that are held within a Rabbi Trust for the purpose of paying future executive deferred compensation benefit obligations was $11.2 million.