STAND. COM. REP. NO.  335

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 952

      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 Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 952 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate investigations of public contractor violations of the prevailing wage law by:

 

     (1)  Providing for confidentiality of complainants and witnesses interviewed in investigations; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the filing of administrative complaints of violations within one year from the date wages were due and limiting investigations to a one-year period.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the provision providing for confidentiality of witnesses; 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 Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 952, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 952, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair