Bill Text: HI HB1354 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Employment Earnings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB1354 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1354-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to employment earnings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that requiring employers to include pay or salary
as part of a job advertisement helps to increase pay transparency and equal pay
for all employees. California, Colorado,
and New York City have recently enacted laws requiring job advertisements to
include pay, and initial experiences have benefited employers, current
employees, and prospective employees.
Employers and prospective employees spend less time interviewing because
prospective employees will not apply to jobs with a pay level that they feel is
too low, and existing employees have benefitted from seeing the salaries offered
to prospective employees and have used that information to seek higher wages,
thereby helping to reduce pay inequalities.
The purpose of this Act is to reduce pay
inequalities by requiring job listings to disclose the hourly rate or
salary range reasonably reflecting the actual expected compensation.
SECTION 2. Chapter 378, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§378- Job
listing; disclosures. (a)
Subject to subsection (b), all job listings shall disclose an
hourly rate or salary range reasonably reflecting the actual expected
compensation.
(b) This section shall not apply to:
(1) Job listings
for an internal transfer or promotion of an employee with the employee's
current employer; or
(2) Public employee positions for which salary, benefits, or other compensation are determined pursuant to collective bargaining."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1,
2024.
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Report Title:
Employment; Compensation Disclosure; Job Listing
Description:
Requires certain job listings to include an hourly rate or salary range. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
