Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2691 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide additional means of recourse against employers who fail to pay prevailing wages by allowing a joint labor-management committee established pursuant to the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a) to institute actions for injunctive and other relief against such employers.

The Hawaii Carpenters Union testified in support of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Hawaii Chapter, and Willocks Construction Corporation opposed the measure.

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. 2691 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.