STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1179

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 61

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 61, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow employers to streamline their method of transmitting wage information to their employees. Specifically, this measure authorizes an employer, upon receipt of written authorization from the employee and in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record, to furnish the employee with an electronic record that details the employee's:

(1) Total hours worked;

(2) Overtime hours;

(3) Straight-time compensation;

(4) Overtime compensation;

(5) Other compensation;

(6) Total gross compensation;

(7) Amount and purpose of each deduction;

(8) Total net compensation;

(9) Date of payment; and

(10) Pay period covered.

This bill also requires an employer to maintain and preserve the electronic pay record and electronic accessibility to that pay record by the employee for a period of at least six years.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Verizon Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of this measure.

Currently, Hawaii's Wage and Hour law only requires employers to provide a "pay stub" to their employees in a printed, typewritten, or handwritten form. With the proliferation of electronic communications and prevalence of computers in the workplace, it seems reasonable to have employees receive their wage information in an electronic format. This measure would allow for the use of a more timely and cost-effective method for the transmittal of wage information and serves a beneficial purpose for both employees and employers as well as provide access to and maintenance of these records for a period of six years.

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 S.B. No. 61, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

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KIRK CALDWELL, Chair