STAND. COM. REP. NO. 311-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2823
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2823 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES, HOURS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYEES OF CONTRACTORS PERFORMING SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure fair compensation is provided to workers employed on public projects by clarifying that services to be rendered are performed by employees paid at wages or salaries not less than the wages paid to public officers and employees for similar work in the State of Hawaii.
The United Public Workers and the Hawaii State AFL-CIO supported this bill. The Department of Public Safety and Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc. opposed this measure.
Your Committee finds that projects using taxpayer money to fund them should meet the highest standards of fairness, especially in the area of providing adequate compensation to the workers employed on such a project. This bill ensures that contractors will be held to standards providing for wages equal to those paid in the State of Hawaii for employees of the contractor even for contracts for services provided out of state.
Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2823, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2823, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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