STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1283-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2360

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2360 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require:

 

     (1)  Public employees in collective bargaining units to provide written notification to the employee's exclusive representative to discontinue the employee's payroll assignments within a certain time period; and

 

     (2)  The employee's exclusive representative to provide a copy of the notification to the employer within seven business days of receipt from the employee.

 

     The Hawaii Fire Fighters Association Local 1463, IAFF, AFL-CIO; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this measure.


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Lengthening the time in which the employee's exclusive representative is required to provide a copy of the notification to the employer to ten business days of receipt from the employee; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

    

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2360, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2360, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair