RELATING TO HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.

Increases the members of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board from six to ten; increases their terms from six to ten years; and sets the salary of the chairperson to no less than ninety-five per cent of the salary of the Deputy Director of Labor and Industrial Relations and the salaries of the members to ninety-five per cent of the chairperson's salary.

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression as a public policy matter and specifically with regard to employment.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Includes employer's consideration of any individual's credit history in hiring and termination decisions as an offense of unlawful discriminatory practice.

RELATING TO HAWAII WORKSITE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ACT.

Establishes a mechanism for employers to obtain temporary restraining orders to protect against harassment at the worksite.

RELATING TO RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS.

Prohibits employers from requiring employees to enter into unreasonable restrictive covenants that bar a former employee from engaging in a similar working capacity within the former employee's profession.

HB 1144

HD1

RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS.

Establishes the social work student loan subsidy program and special fund for social workers in the departments of education, health, human services, public safety, and labor and industrial relations. Appropriates funds. (HB1144 HD1)

HB 1146

RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE.

Prohibits department of human resources development from eliminating the social worker series classifications. Restores social worker class if eliminated before the effective date of this Act.

HB 1089

HD1

RELATING TO HEALTH BENEFITS.

Provides instructors on contract with the University of Hawaii's outreach college with health benefits. (HB1089 HD1)

HB 171

HD1

RELATING TO SALARY COMPENSATION.

Requires the State to compensate state employees and officers on active duty in a hostile fire zone the difference between their higher state pay and their military pay. (HB171 HD1)

HB 106

HD1

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide employers with employee group health claims experience under the employer health plan for the current policy period within 90 days of a request. Authorizes reasonable fees. Provides exceptions.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Appropriates $20 million in Reed Act funds for services of the unemployment insurance and workforce development divisions. Provides additional funding to the local workforce investment boards for employer outreach and services, labor force pool expansion and capacity building

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Reconstitutes the board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Increases the composition of the board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund from 10 to 12, 11 of whom shall be selected by the governor and 1 of whom shall be selected by the mayor of the respective counties on a rotating basis. Prohibits the governor from reducing the term of the trustee appointed by a county mayor. Permits county mayor instead of the governor to appoint replacement, in the case of a vacancy in the county trustee position.

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Rep. Kirk Caldwell