STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3243

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 92

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 92 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING STATE DEPARTMENTS TO CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS AND FURTHER THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS IN HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to encourage state departments to conduct business with sustainable business corporations and further the promotion of sustainable corporations in Hawaii.

     Your Committees received no testimony for this measure.

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committees posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which requests the State Auditor to conduct a management audit of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to the proposed S.D. 1 from ILWU Local 142.  Your Committees received comments on the proposed S.D. 1 from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and one individual.

     Your Committees find that employment reductions-in-force during the recent economic recession have severely impacted the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' personnel resources by reducing its total number of full-time employees so much so as to have eliminated entire sections and branches within the Department, leaving some departmental responsibilities unfulfilled.  Consequently, some departmental employees have had to perform additional responsibilities concurrent with their primary responsibilities and work overtime without overtime pay to fulfill departmental obligations, while other departmental employees are receiving overtime and additional pay when they are not entitled to such pay.

     Your Committees further find that concerns have been raised about the management and operations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, which have caused lengthy delays in processing and backlogs through the Department.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing its contents with the contents of the proposed S.D. 1.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 92, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 92, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair