STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1313

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 859

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 859, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow collective bargaining agreements relating to public employees, in effect on or after July 1, 2007, to include certain permissible and certain required provisions, the contents of section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, notwithstanding.

 

     Specifically, this measure directs collective bargaining agreements for public employees in effect on or after July 1, 2007, to:

 

     (1)  Allow negotiated provisions relating to the procedures and criteria on promotions, transfers, assignments, demotions, layoffs, suspensions, terminations, discharge, or other disciplinary actions; and

 

     (2)  Require negotiated provisions relating to the impact of transfers, assignments, and layoffs.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Services; the Hawaii State Judiciary; the Department of Human Resources, County of Hawaii; the Honolulu Fire Department, City and County of Honolulu; the Fire Department, County of Hawaii, and the Fire Department, County of Kauai.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting in its place the contents of Senate Bill No. 1642, S.D.1, which has the effect of removing the mandatory requirement that negotiations relating to a collective bargaining agreement for public employees include negotiations over the impact of transfers, assignments, and layoffs.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 859, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 859, 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 Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair