STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2407

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3081

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3081 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish, administer, and support on-the-job training for individuals who are dislocated due to the closure of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; Hawaii Farm Bureau; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 142; Maui Hotel & Lodging Association; Maui County Farm Bureau; and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the closure of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company will result in the termination of about six hundred seventy workers from March to December 2016.  According to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, available federal funds are projected to be insufficient to serve the number of workers scheduled for layoff.  This measure will supplement the limited federal funds to ensure that workers can access necessary services, including on-the-job training, when they lose their jobs.

 

     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 S.B. No. 3081 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair