STAND. COM. REP. NO. 476

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1122

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1122 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGE AND HOUR LAW,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the amount of guaranteed monthly compensation required for an employee to be exempt from minimum wage, overtime, and record keeping requirements.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii and Hawaii Food Industry Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that this is a housekeeping measure that corrects the inequity of guaranteed compensation remaining at the same level, while the minimum wage increases as scheduled over the next three years.

 

     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. 1122 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair