STAND. COM. REP. NO. 183

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 34

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 34 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law that sets forth guidelines and limitations for appropriate government authorities in making adjustments for their respective public employees excluded from collective bargaining.  Specifically, this measure requires that across-the-board wage increases or reductions, step movement, or employer contributions for health benefits adjustments for public employees excluded from collective bargaining in the excluded managerial compensation plan are at least equal to the adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements to employees in the collective bargaining unit from which the excluded employees in the managerial compensation plan are excluded.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, IAFF Local 1463, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that existing law does not provide enough guidance or limitations on how government entities may make adjustments for their respective excluded employees who are in the excluded managerial compensation plan.  This measure establishes limitations and prevents the application of all the terms of a respective collective bargaining agreement with respect to across-the-board wage increases or reductions and changes in health and retirement benefits to excluded employees in the managerial compensation plan.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 34 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair