Bill Text: HI HB341 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Paid Sick and Safe Leave

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (S) Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 547). [HB341 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB341-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  912

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 341

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 341, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the rights of employees by making it an unlawful practice for any employer or labor organization to bar or discharge from employment, withhold pay from, or demote an employee because the employee uses accrued and available sick leave.  This bill also allows an employer or labor organization to require an employee who uses three or more consecutive days of sick leave to provide written verification from a physician indicating that the employee was ill when the sick leave was used.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, ILWU Local 142, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), IBEW Local 1260, and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; First Hawaiian Bank; Society for Human Resource Management–Hawaii Chapter; National Federation of Independent Business; Hawaiian Telcom; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; Hawaii Credit Union League; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc.; and Maui Electric Company, Limited; opposed this bill.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Limiting its scope by making it applicable to employers with 100 or less employees, instead of any employer; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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. 341, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 341, H.D. 3.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair