STAND. COM. REP. NO.950

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 577

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 577 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure equity for civil service employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

The bill requires state and county agencies to provide their excluded civil service employees with compensation and benefit package adjustments that are at least equal to the compensation and benefit packages provided through collective bargaining agreements to the excluded employees' counterparts and subordinates.

Your Committee finds that the excluded employees are specifically the Excluded Managerial Compensation Plan level employees. Your Committee also understands that this measure effectively repeals that portion of Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, that relates to excluded employees, and restores the law as it existed prior to that act.

Specifically, prior to Act 253, adjustments to the compensation and benefit packages of the excluded employees were, as with this measure, required to be not less than that provided under collective bargaining agreements for officers and employees hired on a comparable basis. With the passage of the act, adjustments were to be made at the discretion of the appointing authority. In other words, prior to Act 253, the adjustments were lockstep adjustments. With the act, the adjustments were performance based and variable.

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. 577 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair