STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1492

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 332

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 332, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect employees by expanding the wage information required to be provided on employee pay statements and included in employer records to include employee pay rates and basis of calculation.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2014; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 332, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 332, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair