Company: EME
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000105634-25-000015
Chunk: 136

Company: EMCOR Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 136
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 approximately $13.2 million, $10.2 million, and $9.2 million, respectively. Our United Kingdom subsidiary also has defined contribution retirement plans. The expenses recognized related to employer matching contributions were approximately $7.4 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, and $7.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Multiemployer PlansWe participate in approximately 200 multiemployer pension plans (“MEPPs”) that provide retirement benefits to certain union employees in accordance with various collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”). As one of many participating employers in an MEPP, we are potentially liable with the other participating employers for any plan underfunding, either through an increase in our required contributions or, in the case of our withdrawal from the plan, a payment based upon our proportionate share of the plan's unfunded benefits, in each case, as described below. Our contributions to a particular MEPP are established by the applicable CBAs; however, our required contributions may increase based on the funded status of an MEPP and legal requirements of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the “PPA”), which requires substantially underfunded MEPPs to implement a funding improvement plan (“FIP”) or a rehabilitation plan (“RP”) to improve their funded status. Factors that could impact the funded status of an MEPP include, without limitation, investment performance, changes in the participant demographics, decline in the number of contributing employers, changes in actuarial assumptions, and the utilization of extended amortization provisions. An FIP or RP requires a particular MEPP to adopt measures to correct its underfunding status. These measures may include, but are not limited to: (a) an increase in our contribution rate as a signatory to the applicable CBA, (b) a reallocation of the contributions already being made by participating employers for various benefits to individuals participating in the MEPP, and/or (c) a reduction in the benefits to be paid to future and/or current retirees. In addition, the PPA requires that a 5% surcharge be levied on employer contributions for the first year commencing after the date the employer receives notice that the MEPP is in critical status and a 10% surcharge on each succeeding year until a CBA is in place with terms and conditions consistent with the RP. We could also be obligated to make payments to MEPPs if we either cease to have an obligation to contribute