Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 29, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require employers to provide a meal break of at least 30 consecutive minutes for any employee who works eight continuous hours, unless a collective bargaining agreement applying to the employee contains a provision for employee meal breaks.

ILWU Local 142 and Hawaii State AFL-CIO submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Society for Human Resource Management-Hawaii Chapter and Covanta Energy Group submitted testimony in opposition to this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Oahu Transit Services, Inc., submitted comments on this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 29, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.