STAND. COM. REP. NO.  34-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1958

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1958 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPENSATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to add flexibility to the calculation of overtime compensation for government public works construction contracts greater than $2,000 by providing that overtime compensation be not less than one-and-one-half times the laborers or mechanics basic hourly rate of pay plus fringe benefits.

The Hawaii Construction Alliance; Laborer's International Union of North America, Local 368; and Hawaii Operating Engineers Stabilization Fund provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the overtime rate be as specified in the collective bargaining agreement when the basic hourly rate is based on a collective bargaining agreement.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1958, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1958, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair