THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
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Senator Clayton Hee, Chair |
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Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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Friday, February 1, 2013 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Requires that across-the-board wage increases or reductions and changes in health and retirement benefits for excluded employees in the excluded managerial compensation plan are at least equal to adjustments provided under collective bargaining to employees in the bargaining unit from which the employees in the managerial compensation plan are excluded.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires the Hawaii labor relations board to provide written notice of a hearing to all parties by first class mail at least fifteen days before the scheduled hearing. Makes housekeeping amendments to section 89-9, HRS, to conform to existing law.
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RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH HEARINGS. Authorizes the Hawaii labor relations board to provide written notice of hearing to all parties by first class mail at least fifteen days before the hearing, notwithstanding section 91-9.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and clarifies the board's powers for conducting appeals under chapter 396, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Repeals specific monetary amounts of employer contributions to the EUTF for each enrolled employee beneficiary.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Authorizes the board of trustees to procure certain services with an exemption from the procurement code. Establishes trust fiduciary duties, prohibits certain transactions, and establishes liabilities for breaching a fiduciary duty. Amends the membership, methods of appointment, and representation on the board of trustees; the selection process for filling a vacant trustee seat on the board; and the quorum requirements for voting by the board. Authorizes the board to appoint or contract an attorney who is independent from the attorney general and establishes qualifications for the contracted attorney. Specifies how the board shall administer and carry out the purposes of the trust fund and administratively attaches the trust fund to the department of human resources development.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Makes housekeeping amendments relating to the scope of negotiations and repeals language that prohibits parties from using arbitration to resolve impasses or disputes relating to the State and counties contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund. Repeals the procedures parties are required to follow after an arbitration panel issues a decision and the understanding that members of bargaining units are prohibited from striking on the issue of state and county contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Prohibits: (1) a public employer from willfully implementing or attempting to implement any term of a collective bargaining proposal without the exclusive representative's agreement; and (2) a public employee or employee organization from willfully implementing or attempting to implement any term of a collective bargaining proposal without the employer's agreement.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires that a complaint not resolved within 30 days by the Hawaii labor relations board be deemed resolved in favor of the complainant.
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RELATING TO WAGES. Requires employers to provide employees with specific wage and employer information at the time of hiring and in employees' pay records. Increases civil and criminal penalties for employers' noncompliance with wage rate notice requirements. Require public notice of employer violations.
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Clayton Hee Chair |
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