STAND. COM. REP. NO.1151

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 643

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 643, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MERIT APPEALS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Labor Relations Board (HLRB) to act as the Merit Appeals Board and hear appeals of actions taken against civil service employees when the employer is the State of Hawaii.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD), and United Public Workers submitted testimony in support of the measure.

Your Committee finds that Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000 (Act 253), requires the State to designate an entity to serve as a merit appeals board to hear appeals of actions taken against civil service employees when the employer is the State of Hawaii. Each employing jurisdiction covered under Act 253 is required to either make such a designation or establish an entity for this purpose.

Your Committee recognizes that the measure contains a conflict with regard to designating the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, which is placed in DLIR, as the State Merit Appeals Board, and that Act 253 requires that the State Merit Appeals Board be placed in DHRD. However, your Committee believes that future discussions on the measure will resolve this problem.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 643, H.D. 2, 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 Labor,

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BOB NAKATA, Chair