STAND. COM. REP. NO.  680-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2010

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2010, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL MINIMUM WAGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to permit the operation of First Job Training Programs that provide on-the-job training and education to first time hires and may pay participant-employees a special minimum wage that is less than the minimum wage.

The Hawaii Food Industry Association provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii State AFL-CIO and ILWU Local 142 provided testimony in opposition.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2010, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair