STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2932

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2373

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2373, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that negotiations over the implementation of management decisions that affect the terms and conditions of employment shall not be precluded from collective bargaining negotiations.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from AFL-CIO; Hawaii State Teachers Association; IMUAlliance; Hawaii Government Employees Association; United Public Workers; and OCC Legislative Priorities Committee, Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Your Committee finds that management decisions that affect terms and conditions of employment can have a profound impact on employment and that those decisions should be negotiated as part of collective bargaining.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2373, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair