REPORT TITLE:
Employment


DESCRIPTION:
Requiring employers to provide employees with meal break.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2250
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO MEAL BREAKS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that, although Act 172 of
 
 2 1999 amended the Hawaii Revised Statutes to make it illegal for
 
 3 an employer to prohibit an employee from expressing breastmilk
 
 4 during any meal period or other break period required by law,
 
 5 neither our State nor federal wage and hour laws currently
 
 6 require employers to provide employees over the age of sixteen
 
 7 any meal period or rest break no matter how many consecutive
 
 8 hours they may be required to work.  Employees who must work a
 
 9 full day or eight-hour shift or more regardless of age or sex
 
10 should not be denied a reasonable period of time to rest and
 
11 consume a meal as is commonly required by other states such as
 
12 California, Oregon, and Washington.
 
13      SECTION 2.  Chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended
 
14 by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to
 
15 read as follows:
 
16      "§387-    Meal breaks.  No employee shall be required to
 
17 work more than five hours continuously without an interval of at
 
18 least thirty consecutive minutes for a rest or meal period unless
 
19 a collective bargaining agreement expressly provides the employee
 

 
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 1 a choice between accepting the break or overtime pay for work
 
 2 performed during such a break."
 
 3      SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
 4      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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 6                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________