| HI | HB2196 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes requirement of a college degree for any state position, unless the degree is relevant to licensing or certification as it relates to the duties and responsibilities of the position or when the position requires specialized knowledge, skills, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2886 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2897 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3215 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of employer-sponsored high deductible health plans under certain conditions. Requires maintenance of health savings accounts in conjunction with high deductible health plans. Specifies that employers and insurers that buy or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2973 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Warehouse Worker Protection Act. Requires certain warehouse employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to employees and maintain records of quotas and employee work speed data. Protects employees from quotas that would preven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retirement benefits to be negotiated during collective bargaining negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the time requirement when a disbursing officer shall inform the employee of indebtedness. Reduces the minimum amount owed per pay period from $100 to $50 or 5% of the new employee's wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each cannabis dispensary to enter into a labor peace agreement that protects the State's proprietary interests by prohibiting the applicable labor organization from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, or boycotts against the establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $2,000 to $2,240, the minimum amount of guaranteed compensation required for an individual employed by and an employer who is exempt from the State's Wage and Hour Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2879 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3219 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a newly hired public employee to file a complaint with the Hawaii Labor Relations Board if the employee is not provided, within 20 calendar days of being hired, a general orientation on the employee's benefits and rights, or if the exclusive r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3225 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support healthcare workforce development programs, specifically the public high school healthcare workforce certificate program and glidepath progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3271 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Attorney General to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, when the employee was acting within the scope of their employment and was not grossly negligent or wanton. Requires that, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3293 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption to overtime compensation for employees on public works projects working on a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3071 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3098 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the State Fire Marshal's Office within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3032 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens enforcement of orders of wage payment violations to allow for certified copies of orders of wage payment violation to be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3178 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently exempts senior software developers in the Department of Taxation from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3074 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 76-16(b), Hawaii Revised Statues, to exempt the Deputy Executive Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and branch managers of the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2663 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes employees who are not working due to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute to receive unemployment benefits if the Hawaii Labor Relations Board determines that the employer has not made or is failing to make reasonable, timely, and goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes overtime pay earned during an emergency proclamation as part of the pension calculation for individuals who became a member of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2793 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position and duties of the State Fire Marshal. Declares that the appropriation will cause the general fund expenditure ceiling to be exceeded. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2614 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies penalties for violations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations rules from a fixed fine to a fine proportional to the yearly income of the violator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund board of trustees. Clarifies vacancy procedures. Amends quorum requirements and voting powers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2506 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the number of board members of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from 10 trustees to 9. Changes the composition of board members to include 2 citizens of the State who are not employees, among other things. Limits the trustee's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2849 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2025, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2760 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Government Innovation Shadow Program that allows the State's governmental units to temporarily assign employees to shadow employees of other governmental agencies and private organizations and businesses to observe and report innovation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the period for an employer and an individual or labor organization that has been newly organized or certified as a representative to meet and commence to bargain collectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a Four-Day Workweek Task Force. Requires the taskforce to submit a report to the Legislature. Dissolves the taskforce on 6/30/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2666 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2821 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Accounting and General Services to directly hire persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements. Exempts DAGS employees from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the state and county contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for employees hired after 6/30/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for minimum pay for employees who have canceled shifts or reduced work hours at a business establishment with fifty or more employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2871 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer to retire after twenty-five years of service and receive employment benefits through the Employees' Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2809 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Fire Council to appoint the State Fire Marshal. Establishes that this measure only takes effect if another bill is passed that establishes a State Fire Marshal position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain employers to provide paid meal periods to certain employees under certain circumstances. Establishes conditions for waivers of the paid meal periods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Director of Human Resources Development shall not hold the position of Chief Negotiator of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits employers from employing employees for a workday longer than eight hours for more than 6 days in a workweek unless the employer pays the employee overtime pay at 1.5 times the employee's regular rate for hours worked in excess of 8 hours, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires food establishments to publicly disclose how tips are allocated among employees. Effective 1/1/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for unemployment benefit rights when claimants are unemployed due to a strike or industrial controversy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
