Bill Text: HI HB837 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Unemployment Benefit; Part-time Employment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB837 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB837-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 474
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: H.B. No. 837
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 837 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to authorize an individual attached to a regular employer, who is not offering work, to receive unemployment insurance benefits even if the individual voluntarily or involuntarily separates from part-time employment, with or without good cause.
The ILWU Local 142; and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supports this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) opposed this measure as drafted and suggested alternate options. The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii opposed this measure.
One of the goals of this measure is to encourage people who are still attached to a full-time employer but for whom there is no work, to look for positions, generally part-time, while they wait for employment from their full-time employer. If the person then leaves the part-time employment, under current law their unemployment benefits would be at risk and probably lost. This result may be justified for those who lose their part-time employment for misconduct or who quit their part-time employment without good cause. However, your Committees agree with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations that if a person has good cause to leave part-time employment, the person's unemployment benefits should not be adversely affected. Under such circumstances, an employee should be held to the same standard as anyone who loses a job and applies for unemployment benefits. Therefore, your Committees have amended this bill by inserting the proposed language from DLIR which addresses that issue.
Your Committees also made technical amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 837, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 837, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Economic Revitalization & Business,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair |
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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