Report Title:

Sick Leave

Description:

Allows an employee to substitute any of their accrued paid leaves such as sick, vacation, or personal leave for any part of the four week family leave an employee is entitled to.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

771

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to sick leave.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that existing law does not require an employer to permit an employee to use sick or vacation leave to attend to the illness of a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary.

The purpose of this Act is to permit an employee to use any accrued sick leave or vacation leave to care for a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary.

SECTION 2. Section 398-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) An employee [or employer] may elect to substitute any of the employee's accrued paid leaves such as sick, vacation, personal, or family leave for any part of the four-week period in subsection (a)[; provided that an employer or employee may not substitute an employee's accrued sick leave in any situation under this chapter unless:

(1) Sick leave is normally granted for such purposes by an employer's policy or practice; or

(2) Upon mutual agreement by the employer and the employee]."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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