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Pension and Non-pension Post-employment Benefit Plans
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Disclosure of information about defined benefit plans [abstract]  
Pension and Non-pension Post-employment Benefit Plans PENSION AND NON-PENSION POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PLANS:
(a)    Plan summaries:
We provide pension and non-pension post-employment benefit plans for our employees. At December 31, 2020, such plans included our pension plan for employees in the United Kingdom (U.K. Main pension plan), which generally provides participants with stated benefits on retirement based on their pensionable service, either in annuities and/or lump sum payments. The U.K. Main pension plan is closed to new members, and approximately 1% of such plan members remain active employees of the Company. Our previous supplementary pension plan for employees in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was wound-up in 2019. Defined contribution pension plans are offered to certain employees, mainly in Canada and the U.S. We provide non-pension post-employment benefits (under other benefit plans) to retired and terminated employees in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Thailand and South Korea. These benefits may include one-time retirement and specified termination benefits, medical, surgical, hospitalization coverage, supplemental health, dental and/or group life insurance.
To mitigate the actuarial and investment risks of our defined benefit pension plans, we purchase annuities from time to time (using existing plan assets) from third party insurance companies for certain, or all, plan participants. The purchase of annuities by the pension plan substantially hedges the financial risks associated with the related pension obligations.
In June 2018, the trustees of the U.K. Main pension plan entered into an agreement with a third party insurance company to purchase an annuity for participants in such plan who had not yet retired. The cost of the annuity was £156.1 million (approximately $209.2 at the exchange rate at the time of recording) and was funded with existing plan assets. The purchase of the annuity resulted in a non-cash loss of $63.3 during Q2 2018 which we recorded in OCI and simultaneously re-classified to deficit, and the recognition of an additional pension obligation on our consolidated balance sheet after we fully reduced the pension asset to zero.
In August 2020, the trustees of our U.K. Main pension plan purchased annuities to hedge the pension benefits payable to newly-retired members of such plan. The purchase of the annuity resulted in a non-cash loss of $0.2 for the third quarter of 2020 (Q3 2020) which we recorded in OCI and simultaneously re-classified to deficit.
The overall governance of our pension plans is conducted by our Human Resources and Compensation Committee which, through annual reviews, approves material plan changes, reviews funding levels, investment performance, compliance matters and plan assumptions, and ensures that the plans are administered in accordance with local statutory requirements. We have established a Pension Committee to govern our Canadian pension plans. The U.K. Main pension plan is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of employee and company representation. Both the Canadian Pension Committee and the U.K. Board of Trustees review funding levels, investment performance and compliance matters for their respective plans. Our pension funding policy is to contribute amounts sufficient, at minimum, to meet local statutory funding requirements. For our defined benefit pension plans (primarily our U.K. Main pension plan), local regulatory bodies either define the minimum funding requirement or approve the funding plans submitted by us. We may make additional discretionary contributions taking into account actuarial assessments and other factors. The contributions that we make to support ongoing plan obligations are recorded in the respective asset or liability accounts on our consolidated balance sheet.
    Our U.K. Main pension plan requires an actuarial valuation to be completed every three years. The actuarial valuation was completed using a measurement date of April 2019; the next valuation will have a measurement date of April 2022.
    We currently fund our non-pension post-employment benefit plans as we incur benefit payment obligations thereunder. Excluding our mandatory plans, the most recent actuarial valuations for our largest non-pension post-employment benefit plans were completed using measurement dates of May 2019 (Canada) and January 2020 (U.S.). The next actuarial valuations for these plans will have measurement dates of May 2022 and January 2022, respectively. We accrue the expected costs of providing non-pension post-employment benefits during the periods in which the employees render service. We used a measurement date of December 31, 2020 for the accounting valuation for pension and non-pension post-employment benefits.
    Our pension plans are exposed to market risks such as changes in interest rates, inflation, and fluctuations in investment values, as well as financial risks including counterparty risks of financial institutions from which annuities have
been purchased for specified plans. See note 21(c). Our plans are also exposed to non-financial risks, including the membership’s mortality and demographic changes, as well as regulatory changes.
    We manage the funding level risk of defined benefit pension plans through our asset allocation strategy for each plan. In the U.K., the majority of the obligations under our U.K. Main pension plan have been hedged with the purchase of annuities with insurance companies as described above, but are not designated as hedges for application of hedge accounting purposes.

    Pension fund assets are invested primarily in fixed income and equity securities. Asset allocation between fixed income and equity securities is adjusted based on the expected life of the plan and the expected retirement dates of the plan participants. Our pension funds do not invest directly in our shares, but may invest indirectly as a result of the inclusion of our shares in certain investment funds. All of our plan assets are measured at their fair value using the fair value hierarchy inputs described in note 21. At December 31, 2020, $31.8 (December 31, 2019 — $30.5) of our plan assets were measured using Level 1 inputs of the fair value hierarchy and $348.3 (December 31, 2019 — $299.8) of our plan assets (comprised of insurance annuities) were measured using Level 3 inputs of the fair value hierarchy. None of our plan assets were measured using Level 2 inputs. Approximately 97% of our plan assets consist of annuities purchased with insurance companies, and assets held with financial institutions with a Standard and Poor’s long-term rating of A- or above at December 31, 2020. The annuities purchased for our U.K. Main pension plan are held with financial institutions that are governed by local regulatory bodies. The remaining assets are held with financial institutions where ratings are not available or are below A. For these institutions, Celestica monitors counterparty risk based on the diversification of plan assets. These plan assets are maintained in segregated accounts by a custodian that is independent from the fund managers. We believe that the counterparty risk is low.
Plan assets are measured at their fair values; however, the amounts we are permitted to record for defined benefit plan assets may be restricted under IFRS. See note 2(l) for a description of this restriction. Based on a review of the terms, conditions, and statutory minimum funding requirements of our defined benefit plans, we have determined that the present value of future pension refunds or reductions in future contributions to our pension plans exceeds the total of the fair value of plan assets net of the present value of related obligations. This determination was made on a plan-by-plan basis. As a result of our assessment, there were no reductions to the amounts we recorded for defined benefit plan assets as at December 31, 2020 or 2019.    
(b) Plan financials:
    The table below presents the market value of defined pension and other benefit plan assets:
Fair Market
Value at
December 31
Actual Asset
Allocation (%)
at December 31
2019202020192020
Quoted market prices:
Debt investment funds
$10.3 $10.8 3 %3 %
Equity investment funds
7.4 7.8 2 %2 %
Non-quoted market prices:
Insurance annuities
299.8 348.3 91 %92 %
Other
12.8 13.2 4 %3 %
Total
$330.3 $380.1 100 %100 %
    The following tables provide a summary of the financial position of our defined pension and other benefit plans:
Pension Plans
Year ended
December 31
Other Benefit Plans
Year ended
December 31
2019202020192020
Plan assets, beginning of year
$293.0 $328.5 $— $1.8 
Interest income
8.0 6.4 — — 
Actuarial gains (losses) in other comprehensive income (i)
27.8 36.4 — — 
Administrative expenses paid from plan assets
(1.2)(1.1)— — 
Employer contributions
2.9 4.0 0.9 0.4 
Employer direct benefit payments
0.8 1.1 3.0 2.6 
 Employer direct settlement payments— — 5.2 4.8 
Settlement payments from employer
— — (5.2)(4.8)
    Settlement payments from plan— — (0.2)(0.1)
Benefit payments from plan
(12.0)(12.5)(0.2)(0.2)
Benefit payments from employer
(0.8)(1.1)(3.0)(2.6)
Foreign currency exchange rate changes and other
10.0 16.4 1.3 0.1 
Plan assets, end of year
$328.5 $378.1 $1.8 $2.0 

(i)    Actuarial gains or losses are determined based on actual return on plan assets less interest income as set forth in the table above. For 2020, includes a $0.2 loss resulting from the purchase of annuities in August 2020 (2018 — $63.3 loss resulting from the June 2018 annuity purchase) (see note 19(a) above).
Pension Plans
Year ended
December 31
Other Benefit Plans
Year ended
December 31
2019202020192020
Accrued benefit obligations, beginning of year
$309.6 $346.0 $68.1 $87.4 
Current service cost
1.9 1.9 2.6 3.2 
    Past service cost (credit) and settlement/curtailment losses (i)
— (0.8)8.0 2.3 
Interest cost
8.6 6.9 2.6 2.4 
Actuarial losses (gains) in other comprehensive income from:
— Changes in demographic assumptions
(0.4)(1.2)(1.7)— 
— Changes in financial assumptions
31.1 41.0 11.4 5.0 
— Experience adjustments
(2.9)0.1 (0.7)1.3 
    Settlement payments from employer— — (5.2)(4.8)
    Settlement payments from plan— — (0.2)(0.1)
Benefit payments from plan
(12.0)(12.5)(0.2)(0.2)
Benefit payments from employer
(0.8)(1.1)(3.0)(2.6)
Foreign currency exchange rate changes and other
10.9 16.6 5.7 1.7 
Accrued benefit obligations, end of year
$346.0 $396.9 $87.4 $95.6 
Weighted average duration of benefit obligations (in years)
18181313

(i)    For 2019, past service costs of $4.1 were incurred for additional obligations under our Thailand post-employment benefit plan as a result of changes in labor protection laws in Thailand that increased the severance benefits for specified employees upon termination. See note 16(b). The settlement losses relate to employee terminations in connection with 2019 and 2020 restructuring actions.
    The present value of the defined benefit obligations, the fair value of plan assets and the surplus or deficit in our defined benefit pension and other benefit plans are summarized as follows:
Pension Plans
December 31
Other Benefit Plans
December 31
2019202020192020
Accrued benefit obligations, end of year
$(346.0)$(396.9)$(87.4)$(95.6)
Plan assets, end of year
328.5 378.1 1.8 2.0 
Deficiency of plan assets over accrued benefit obligations
$(17.5)$(18.8)$(85.6)$(93.6)
    The following table outlines the plan balances as reported on our consolidated balance sheet:
December 31
December 31
20192020
Pension
Plans
Other
Benefit Plans
Total
Pension
Plans
Other
Benefit Plans
Total
Pension and non-pension post-employment benefit obligations
$(22.6)$(84.5)$(107.1)$(24.4)$(92.9)$(117.3)
Current other post-employment benefit obligations
— (1.1)(1.1)— (0.7)(0.7)
Non-current net pension assets (note 10)5.1 — 5.1 5.6 — 5.6 
$(17.5)$(85.6)$(103.1)$(18.8)$(93.6)$(112.4)
    The following table outlines the net expense recognized in our consolidated statement of operations for pension and non-pension post-employment benefit plans:
Pension Plans
Year ended December 31
Other Benefit Plans
Year ended December 31
201820192020201820192020
Current service cost
$1.8 $1.9 $1.9 $2.2 $2.6 $3.2 
Net interest cost (income)
(0.8)0.6 0.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 
Past service cost (credit) and settlement/curtailment losses
0.1 — (0.8)1.2 8.0 2.3 
Plan administrative expenses and other
1.3 1.5 1.1 — — — 
2.4 4.0 2.7 6.0 13.2 7.9 
Defined contribution pension plan expense (note 19(c))9.6 10.1 10.6 — — — 
Total expense for the year
$12.0 $14.1 $13.3 $6.0 $13.2 $7.9 
We generally record the expenses for pension plans and non-pension post-employment benefits in cost of sales, SG&A expenses, or other charges (see note 16), depending on the nature of the expenses. Our past service cost and settlement losses in 2019 relate to labor law changes in Thailand and employee terminations (see footnote (i) to the accrued benefit obligations table above).
The following table outlines the gains and losses, net of tax, recognized in OCI and reclassified directly to deficit for the years shown:
Year ended December 31
201820192020
Cumulative losses, beginning of year$14.1 $69.0 $77.7 
Loss on pension annuity purchases (note 19(a))
63.3 — 0.2 
Actuarial losses (gains) recognized during the year (i)
(8.4)8.7 9.1 
Cumulative losses, end of year (ii)
$69.0 $77.7 $87.0 
(i)    Net of income tax recovery of $0.4 for 2020 (2019 — net of $0.3 income tax recovery; 2018 — net of $0.1 income tax recovery).
(ii)    Net of income tax recovery of $1.5 as at December 31, 2020 (December 31, 2019 — net of $1.1 income tax recovery; December 31, 2018 — net of $0.8 income tax recovery).
    The following percentages and assumptions were used in measuring the plans for the years indicated:
Pension Plans
Other Benefit Plans
201820192020201820192020
Weighted average discount rate at December 31 (i) for:
Benefit obligations
2.9 2.1 1.4 3.8 2.9 2.5 
Net pension cost
2.5 2.9 2.1 3.6 3.8 2.9 
Weighted average rate of compensation increase for:
Benefit obligations
4.1 3.8 1.1 4.2 4.6 4.6 
Net pension cost
4.0 4.1 3.8 4.6 4.2 4.6 
Healthcare cost trend rates:
Immediate trend
— — — 5.7 5.3 5.3 
Ultimate trend
— — — 4.0 4.0 4.0 
Year the ultimate trend rate is expected to be achieved
— — — 204020402040
(i)     The weighted average discount rate is determined using publicly available rates for highly-rated bonds by currency in countries where we have a pension or non-pension benefit plan. A lower discount rate would increase the present value of the benefit obligation.
We evaluate these assumptions on a regular basis taking into consideration current market conditions and historical market data. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates and assumptions.
    A one percentage-point increase or decrease in one of the following actuarial assumptions, holding other assumptions constant in each case, would increase (decrease) our benefit obligations as follows:
Pension Plans
Other Benefit Plans
Year ended
December 31, 2020		Year ended
December 31, 2020
1% Increase
1% Decrease
1% Increase
1% Decrease
Discount rate
$(62.4)$81.7 $(11.3)$13.9 
Healthcare cost trend rate
$— $— $8.1 $(6.6)
    The sensitivity figures shown above were calculated by determining the change in our benefit obligations as at December 31, 2020 due to a 100 basis point increase or decrease to each of our significant actuarial assumptions used, specifically the discount rate and healthcare cost trend rate, in isolation, leaving all other assumptions unchanged from the original calculation.
(c) Plan contributions:
    We made the following plan contributions for the years indicated below and estimate our contribution for 2021 to be as follows:
Year ended December 31
Estimated Contribution*
2018201920202021
Defined contribution plan$9.6 $10.1 $10.6 $10.6 
Defined benefit plan3.7 3.7 5.1 4.8 
Total$13.3 $13.8 $15.7 $15.4 
Non-pension post-employment benefit plans (i)
$4.8 $9.1 $7.8 $4.1 
*    Our actual contributions could differ materially from these estimates.
(i)     For 2019 and 2020, includes higher settlement payments related to employee terminations in connection with our restructuring actions taken during such years. See note 16(a).