STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1152

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1122

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1122 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGE AND HOUR LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to keep the minimum guaranteed monthly compensation required to exempt an individual from minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements under the Hawaii Wage and Hour Law on par with increases in the minimum wage.  Specifically, this measure replaces the fixed monetary threshold with a formula based on the monthly minimum of the amount of minimum wage multiplied by 276.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported this measure.  The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii and the Hawaii Food Industry Association opposed this measure.

     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 S.B. No. 1122 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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