STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1868

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1057

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT EARNINGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require certain job listings to disclose the hourly rate or salary range that reasonably reflects the actual expected compensation; and

 

     (2)  Prohibit an employer from discriminating between employees because of any protected category established under state law by paying wages to employees in an establishment at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to other employees in the establishment for substantially similar work.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, American Association of University Women of Hawaii, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Women's Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice, and fourteen individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, National Federation of Independent Business Hawaii Chapter, Society of Human Resource Management Hawaii, and Maui Chamber of Commerce.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that requiring employers to disclose the hourly rate or salary range in a job listing and pay employees in protected categories that do substantially similar work as other employees at the same rate will help reduce pay inequalities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair