Employee Benefit Plans, Pensions, and Other Retiree Benefits

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN, PENSIONS AND OTHER RETIREE BENEFITS

The Company maintains a 401(k) plan covering substantially all of its employees based in the United States under which all employees at least twenty-one years old are eligible to receive discretionary Company contributions. Discretionary Company contributions in the form of cash are determined by the Board of Directors. The Company has generally contributed a match of up to 4% of an employee’s contributed annual eligible compensation. The Company no longer provides shares of its common stock as contributions to the 401(k) plan and recognized expense of $2.8 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016. For the fiscal years ended October 2, 2015, and October 3, 2014, the Company contributed shares of 0.1 million, and 0.2 million, respectively, and recognized expense of $7.2 million and $6.2 million, respectively.

Defined Benefit Pension:

The Company has a defined benefit pension plan for certain employees in Japan. This plan has been frozen and new employees are not eligible. However, the Company is obligated to make future contributions to fund benefits to the participants with the benefits under the plan being based primarily on a combination of years of service and compensation.

The net amount of the unfunded obligation recognized in other long-term liabilities on the Balance Sheet consists of (in millions):



	Fiscal Year Ended
	September 30, 2016			October 2, 2015
Pension benefit obligations at the end of the fiscal year	$	19.0		$	14.9
Fair value of plan assets at the end of the fiscal year	11.4			9.8
Funded status	$	(7.6	)	$	(5.1	)

Net periodic benefit costs	$	0.1		$	0.1

The pension obligation has an immaterial impact to the Company’s results of operations and financial position and accordingly, the disclosures required have been excluded from this Annual Report on Form 10-K.