STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1552

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1089

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISLOCATED WORKERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen protection for employees by requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to enforce notice requirements of a closing, divestiture, partial closing, or relocation upon specified establishments.

 

     The United Public Workers and ILWU Local 142 supported this bill.  DLIR provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair