STAND. COM. REP. NO. 747

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 332

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 332, S.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.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that current law requires employers to provide basic pay information to employees on their employee pay statements.  This measure expands that information to provide employees greater clarity and transparency on wages and requires employers to maintain accurate records of this information.  Your Committee believes that this measure will improve the ability of employees to verify their earnings in this time of economic hardship while enhancing the investigatory and enforcement capabilities of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in assisting employees in the recovery of unpaid wages.

     Your Committee notes that this measure, if enacted, should have an effective date of January 1, 2014.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 332, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair