Report Title:

Education; Cafeteria Workers

 

Description:

Clarifies that public school cafeteria workers employed after July 1, 2009, will be compensated for a ten-month period and compensation will be prorated over a twelve-month period.  Cafeteria workers employed prior to July 1, 2009, will continue to receive compensation over a twelve-month period.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

165

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CAFETERIA WORKERS.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that cafeteria workers employed in public schools are currently employed for a twelve‑month period, cafeteria managers are employed for a ten‑month period, and school meals are provided over a ten-month period.

     The purpose of this Act is to clarify that cafeteria workers employed after July 1, 2009, shall be compensated for a ten-month period with the compensation prorated over a twelve-month period.

     SECTION 2.  Section 302A-637, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§302A-637  Cafeteria workers.  All cafeteria workers employed in the department shall be employed and have their compensation adjusted in accordance with chapter 76 and the appropriate collective bargaining agreement, executive order, executive directive, or rule, and the monthly rates of basic compensation so determined shall be payable for employment:

     (1)  For cafeteria workers employed in the department prior to July 1, 2009, over a twelve-month period[.]; and

     (2)  For cafeteria workers employed in the department on or after July 1, 2009, over a ten-month period and prorated over a twelve-month period. 

All cafeteria workers shall be employed on a full-time basis, except that a limited number of part-time workers may be employed by the department.  No cafeteria worker employed on a part-time basis shall work less than twenty hours per week.  The department shall establish a schedule, based on factors that determine the need for part-time workers, fixing the number of part-time workers that may be employed by the department."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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