Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 55, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that employees are given a reasonable time – at least 30 consecutive minutes – to rest, recover, and take a meal break after working five or more straight hours, except in certain cases.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and ILWU Local 142 testified in support of this bill. The First Hawaiian Bank supported this measure with amendments. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission supported the intent of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Hawaii Business League, and Society of Human Resource Management – Hawaii Chapter opposed this measure. The Covanta Energy Group offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and

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 S.B. No. 55, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 55, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.