HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Scott Saiki, Chair

Rep. Nestor Garcia, Vice Chair

Rep. Willie Espero

Rep. Mark Moses

Rep. Bob Nakasone

Rep. David A. Pendleton

Rep. Joe Souki

Rep. Jim Rath

Rep. Terry Nui Yoshinaga

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Saturday, February 9, 2002

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 309

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

     

HB 1843

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Reinstates binding arbitration for bargaining unit 9 (registered professional nurses).

LAB, FIN

HB 1968

RELATING TO SERVICE EMPLOYEES.

Amends current labor laws to provide comparable wages and benefits for service employees. Allows contracted employees to organize. Repeals section 103-55, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

LAB, FIN

HB 2075

RELATING TO SICK LEAVE.

Requires an employer who provides sick leave to permit an employee to use not more than 10 days per year of their accrued and available sick leave to attend to their child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary with a serious health condition. Prohibits an employer from denying the use of sick leave, discharging, demoting, suspending, or discriminating in the terms and conditions of employment against an employee for using or attempting to exercise the right to use sick leave to attend to a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary with a serious health condition.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 2275

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Restricts the repricing of classes to bargaining units containing civil service personnel.

LAB, FIN

HB 2276

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Allows parties to agree that non-cost items are valid and enforceable. Sets forth when terms of the collective bargaining agreement take precedence.

LAB, FIN

HB 2278

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Allows longer than a ten-day advance notice of intent to strike to be given to an employer.

LAB, FIN

HB 2329

RELATING TO MANAGED COMPETITION.

Adds definition of managed competition process.

LAB, FIN

HB 2457

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Amends various statutory provisions to simplify and facilitate the administration and processing of pension benefits.

LAB, FIN

HB 2460

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Amends the amount that the State and each county shall contribute to the Employees' Retirement System.

LAB, FIN

     

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

 

PERSONS WISHING TO TESTIFY ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT 25 COPIES OF THEIR TESTIMONY AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING TO: (1) THE COMMITTEE'S VICE CHAIR IN ROOM 421, STATE CAPITOL, OR (2) THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS PERSONNEL IN THE TURNAROUND AREA OF THE CAPITOL BASEMENT PARKING LOT. TESTIMONY MAY BE FAXED TO THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS OFFICE AT: 586-6501 (OAHU) OR 1-800-535-3859 (NEIGHBOR ISLANDS). WHEN FAXING, PLEASE INDICATE TO WHOM THE TESTIMONY IS BEING SUBMITTED, THE DATE AND TIME OF THE HEARING, AND THE REQUIRED NO. OF COPIES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR SUBMITTAL.

IT IS ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE COPIES BE DOUBLESIDED ON AN 8-1/2" X 11" SHEET. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE LAB COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8485.

IF YOU REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE OR AUXILIARY AIDS AND/OR SERVICES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS OF THE STATE HOUSE (I.E., SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY, OR PARKING DESIGNATED FOR THE DISABLED), PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING SO ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.

 

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Rep. Scott K. Saiki

Chair