Report Title:

Meal Breaks

 

Description:

Requires employers to provide employees with at least a 30-minute break for 8 hours of work, unless a collective bargaining agreement otherwise contains a provision for employee meal breaks, or provisions allowing public transit employees to select work assignments through a bidding system based on seniority.

 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

390

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to labor.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that present law does not require employers to provide full-time employees with a break period for meals or for rest. The purpose of this Act is to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee to work for more than eight hours continuously without at least a thirty-minute break period.

SECTION 2. Section 378-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§378-10[] Breastfeeding.] Meal breaks; breastfeeding. (a) No employee shall be required to work more than eight hours continuously without an interval of at least thirty consecutive minutes for a meal period or other break period, unless a collective bargaining agreement otherwise contains express provisions for employee meal breaks or provisions allowing public transit employees to select work assignments through a bidding system based on seniority.

(b) No employer shall prohibit an employee from expressing breastmilk during any meal period or other break period required [by law to be provided by the employer or required] under this section or by collective bargaining agreement."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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