STAND. COM. REP. NO. 951
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: S.B. No. 1089
S.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISLOCATED WORKERS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to exercise enforcement powers with respect to employers in covered establishments who fail to provide required notification to employees who have been laid off or terminated due to a closing, divestiture, partial closing, or relocation.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this bill. DLIR submitted comments.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1089, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business,
____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair |
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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