REPORT TITLE:
Collective Bargaining; Freeze


DESCRIPTION:
Repeals the two-year moratorium on collective bargaining
negotiations that affect cost items (i.e., wages, hours, amounts
of contributions to the Hawaii public employees health fund, and
other terms and conditions of employment, the implementation of
which requires an appropriation by a legislative body).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to reinstate
 
 2 government employees' right to negotiate for "cost items" (i.e.,
 
 3 wages, hours, amounts of contributions to the Hawaii public
 
 4 employees health fund, and other terms and conditions of
 
 5 employment, the implementation of which requires an appropriation
 
 6 by a legislative body) through collective bargaining from July 1,
 
 7 1999, to July 1, 2001.
 
 8      SECTION 2.  Section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 9 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
10      "(a)  The employer and the exclusive representative shall
 
11 meet at reasonable times, including meetings in advance of the
 
12 employer's budget-making process, and shall negotiate in good
 
13 faith with respect to wages, hours, the number of incremental and
 
14 longevity steps and movement between steps within the salary
 
15 range, the amounts of contributions by the State and respective
 
16 counties to the Hawaii public employees health fund to the extent
 
17 allowed in subsection (e), and other terms and conditions of
 
18 employment which are subject to negotiations under this chapter
 
19 and which are to be embodied in a written agreement, or any
 

 
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 1 question arising thereunder, but such obligation does not compel
 
 2 either party to agree to a proposal or make a concession[;
 
 3 provided that the parties may not negotiate with respect to cost
 
 4 items as defined by section 89-2 for the biennium 1999 to 2001,
 
 5 and the cost items of employees in bargaining units under section
 
 6 89-6 in effect on June 30, 1999, shall remain in effect until
 
 7 July 1, 2001]."
 
 8      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.  
 
 9      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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