STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1053

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 852

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 852, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide for wage and salary adjustments for public sector managers excluded from collective bargaining that are equivalent to or not less than the negotiated adjustments of comparable civil service employees.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter submitted testimony in support of the measure. The Public Employees Management Association of Hawaii, although in general support of the measure, testified that it favored the amendments contained in the Senate version (S.B. No. 59, S.D. 1). The Department of Human Resources Development submitted comments on the measure.

Your Committee finds that excluded employees under the same classification systems as employees within collective bargaining units refers mostly to nonmanagerial, civil service employees. Excluded employees not under the same classification systems as employees within collective bargaining units include cabinet members, managerial employees, nonmanagerial employees (e.g., deputy attorneys general), and civil service employees under the excluded managerial compensation plan.

Your Committee further finds that salary and other cost adjustments for employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and who are not under the same classification systems as employees within collective bargaining units, should be at least equal to the adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements to included employees. Variable salary and other cost adjustments based on performance or other job criteria should serve as incentives and not as punitive measures.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the amendments proposed in the House Draft 2 and inserting amendments that are contained in S.B. No. 59, S.D. 1, which:

(1) Require salary and other cost adjustments for employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and who are not under the same classification systems as employees within collective bargaining units, to be at least equal to the adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements to officers and employees in unit 3 (nonsupervisory employees in white-collar positions) and unit 4 (supervisory employees in white-collar positions), in addition to unit 13 (professional and scientific employees, other than registered professional nurses), as applicable; and

(2) Make the effective date of the measure July 1, 2002.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 852, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 852, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

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BOB NAKATA, Chair