STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1155

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1089

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISLOCATED WORKERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen protection for employees by authorizing the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to enforce notice requirements of a closing, divestiture, partial closing, or relocation against specified establishments.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, and ILWU Local 142 supported this bill.  DLIR provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2011.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair