STAND. COM. REP. NO.  564-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2025

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2025, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist employers in maintaining their workforce and employees in retaining employment during difficult economic times by, among other things:

(1)  Authorizing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish and administer a work-sharing program;

(2)  Authorizing certain private employers to administer a work-sharing plan as part of the work-sharing program to avoid temporary layoffs, if approved by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; and

(3)  Allowing employees under a work-sharing plan to receive unemployment benefits to compensate for lost wages under certain conditions.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2025, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair