HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro, Chair

Rep. Bob Nakasone, Vice Chair

Rep. Kirk Caldwell

Rep. Brian K. Blundell

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Mark S. Moses

Rep. Romeo M. Mindo

Rep. David A. Pendleton

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Friday, January 30, 2004

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 309

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A # 2

HB 1919

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires the proposed adjustments to compensation and benefit packages for excluded civil service employees to be at least equivalent to the adjustments provided within the employer's jurisdiction.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 2072

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Includes a public employer's obligation to pay normal cost and accrued unfunded liability contributions to the Employees' Retirement System as part of the arbitration criteria used to determine whether the public employer has the ability to pay for proposed cost items.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 1777

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Clarifies the terms by which the exclusive representative of a collective bargaining unit must reimburse a nonmember for regular dues collected.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 1778

RELATING TO WAGES.

Authorizes an employer to furnish to an employee an electronic record of an employee's total gross compensation, the amount and purpose of each deduction, total net compensation, date of payment, and pay period covered, in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record, upon receipt of authorization from the employee.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 1779

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Authorizes a permanent full-time public employee who is exempt from chapters 76 and 89 but not an "excluded employee" as defined in section 89C-1.5, HRS to use more than 10 days per calendar year of sick leave for family leave purposes if so authorized by a valid employment policy.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 1780

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Limits paid leave for government employees who attend parent-teacher conferences to two (2) hours, and clarifies that government employees are eligible to receive paid leave to attend the parent-teacher conferences of adult children who are attending a public or private school in grades kindergarten through twelve.

LAB, FIN

     

HB 2090

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES.

Directs DLIR to adopt rules to clarify the definition of "eligible employee" for purposes of the prepaid health care law, as an employee who works 80 or more hours in a consecutive 4-week period, regardless of the number of hours worked in any one week of that period.

LAB, FIN

 

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

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Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro

Chair