Report Title:

Strikebreakers

Description:

Prohibits a person involved in a labor dispute from hiring persons from the mainland to take the place of workers on strike.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2701

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Relating to labor DISPUTES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 379-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§379-2 Unlawful practices. It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To recruit, procure, supply, or refer any person for employment in place of an employee involved in a labor dispute in which the person recruiting, procuring, supplying, or referring is not directly interested[.];

(2) When involved in a labor dispute, to employ in place of an employee involved in such labor dispute any person who customarily and repeatedly offers oneself for employment in the place of employees involved in a labor dispute, or to knowingly employ any person in place of an employee involved in a labor dispute who is recruited, procured, supplied, or referred for employment by any person not directly involved in the labor dispute[.];

(3) Who customarily and repeatedly offers oneself for employment in place of employees involved in a labor dispute to take or offer to take the place in employment of employees involved in a labor dispute[.];

(4) Involved in a labor dispute to contract or arrange with any other person to recruit, procure, supply, or refer persons for employment in place of employees involved in the labor dispute[.]; or

(5) Involved in a labor dispute to employ in place of an employee involved in such labor dispute any person who is not a resident of this state."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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