STAND. COM. REP. NO.  143

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 578

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 578 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure good faith collective bargaining by prohibiting:

     (1)  A public employer from wilfully 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 wilfully implementing or attempting to implement any term of a collective bargaining proposal without the employer's agreement.  

The Hawaii State Teachers Association and IMUAlliance supported this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Education, Department of the Attorney General, and the Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.  The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly offered comments on the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2113, to promote further discussion.

     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. 578, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 578, 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