STAND. COM. REP. NO.  837

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 391

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 391 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES AND HOURS ON PUBLIC WORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend Hawaii's prevailing wage law to ensure that laborers and mechanics working on public works projects receive fair wages.  Specifically, this measure:

(1)  Allows overtime compensation to exceed time and one-half and specifies that if the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations determines that a prevailing wage is subject to collective bargaining, overtime will be at rates set by the applicable collective bargaining agreement; and

(2)  Specifies that overtime compensation and other premium pay rates are those rates specified in an applicable collective bargaining agreement when the basic hourly rate is established in a collective bargaining agreement.

The Hawaii Construction Alliance supported this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and General Contractors Association of Hawaii commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 391, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 391, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair