HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

144

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

requesting a task force to study a four-day, ten-hour WORKWEEK for state and county employees.

 

 

WHEREAS, all Hawaii residents experience the frustration and inconvenience of traffic congestion daily during the peak commuting hours of any given work week; and

WHEREAS, major motor vehicle accidents cause multiple highway lane closures bringing gridlock traffic to an immediate standstill; and

WHEREAS, these traffic problems result in missed classes, postponed meetings, neglected appointments, and delayed productivity, ultimately causing loss in revenue for the State of Hawaii; and

WHEREAS, these daily conditions intensify the already stressful lives of Hawaii's working community sometimes causing additional cases of road rage; and

WHEREAS, many other residents, in anticipation of such traffic conditions, decline to travel to businesses or commercial areas, causing additional revenue loss to the State; and

WHEREAS, countless citizens of this State, seeking some form of relief, voiced their concern regarding the seemingly hopeless problem of traffic; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2002, the Senate concurring, that a task force to study the implementation and effects of a four-day, ten-hour work week for state and county employees should be established; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the task force should consist of representatives from the Department of Human Resources, the Office of the Governor, the public employee unions, each county's mayor's office, the Department of Transportation, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Judiciary, and the University of Hawaii; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the task force should specifically consider whether such a state and county employee work schedule as mandatory or voluntary on the part of the employee, department, agency or division; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the task force should consider the cost savings or increases of such a state and county employee work schedule along with the possible increase or decrease in work efficiency; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the task force should consider the impact of such a work schedule on services delivered as well as the impact on traffic and travel times; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the director of the Department of Human Resources, the leadership of each public employee union, the director of the Department of Transportation, the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the University of Hawaii, the mayor of each county, and to the Governor of the State of Hawaii.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Requesting a Task Force to study the effects of a 4-day, 10-hour workweek for state and county employees.