Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2967 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit employers from requiring employees to work more than eight hours continuously without a fifteen minute break, unless a collective bargaining agreement otherwise expressly provides for breaks.

Your Committee finds that requiring a break should increase worker productivity by lessening the risk of worker inattention and industrial accidents.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2967 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.