Report Title:

Public Employees; Adjustments

 

Description:

Requires personnel directors to ensure that adjustments (including changes in wages and health and retirement benefits) for excluded civil service employees are at least equal to adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements with counterparts within the employer's jurisdiction.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

642

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 89C-1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "adjustment" to read as follows:

     ""Adjustment" means [a change in wages, hours, benefits, or other term and condition of employment.] across-the-board wage increases or reductions, or changes in health or retirement benefits, and shall not include overtime compensation."

     SECTION 2.  Section 89C-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  In formulating recommendations to the appropriate authority, the respective director shall:

     (1)  Establish procedures that allow excluded civil service employees and employee organizations representing them to provide input on adjustments that are relevant and important to them for the director's approval;

     (2)  Ensure that adjustments for excluded civil service employees [result in compensation and benefit packages that] are at least equal to the [compensation and benefit packages] adjustments provided under collective bargaining agreements for counterparts and subordinates within the employer's jurisdiction; and

     (3)  Ensure that proposed adjustments are consistent with chapter 76 and equivalent or not less than adjustments provided within the employer's jurisdiction."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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