STAND. COM. REP. NO. 313-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 2230
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2230 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHORTAGE CATEGORIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to clarify Hawaii's civil service laws by:
(1) Establishing a shortage category employment class for public employment purposes; and
(2) Allowing a public employer to adjust hiring rates for recruitment and retention purposes.
Testimony in support of this bill was received from: the Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Education, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.
Your Committee recognizes that public employers face difficulties in recruiting and retaining employees in certain categories that face labor shortages. As such, your Committee believes that, this bill will give public employers the tools they need to fill these shortage categories.
This bill will allow public employers to declare shortage categories where needed, and raise salaries to recruit and retain needed employees.
After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill as follows:
(1) Omitted the requirement that the chief executive approve a director's declaration of a shortage class;
(2) Provided for a periodic review of shortage categories every two years;
(3) Authorized a director to allow rates to match market rates, limited to twelve percent of the new entry salary above the maximum;
(4) Allowed for the consideration of bargaining unit step movement plans when a director sets the new entry salary of a related shortage category;
(5) Allowed for salary adjustments of incumbents in a shortage category to exceed the maximum step of the pay range;
(6) Required repricing of shortage classes if the director of a department determines that a shortage exists for more than three years; and
(7) Made technical, nonsubstantive revisions for purposes of clarity, style, and conformity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2230, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2230, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Public Employment,
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |
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