Bill Text: HI SB2707 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Collective Bargaining.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2022-06-27 - Notice of intent to veto (Gov. Msg. No. 1216) [SB2707 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2707-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
"(f) The repricing of classes within an
appropriate bargaining unit [may] shall be negotiated and determined
as follows[:]; provided that the parties may mutually agree on repricing
procedures in conformance to this section:
(1) [At the request
of] Within thirty days of receipt of a written request from the
exclusive representative to negotiate and at times allowed under the
collective bargaining agreement, the employer shall negotiate the repricing of
classes within the bargaining unit. The
negotiated repricing actions that constitute cost items shall be subject to the
requirements in section 89-10; and
(2) [If repricing
has not been negotiated under the employer of each jurisdiction shall ensure establishment
of procedures to periodically review, at least once in five years, unless
otherwise agreed to by the parties, the repricing of classes within the
bargaining unit. The repricing of
classes based on the results of the periodic review shall be at the discretion
of the employer. Any appropriations
required to implement the repricing actions that are made at the employer's
discretion shall not be construed as cost items.] If the employer fails to timely initiate a negotiation
in compliance with paragraph (1) or the parties cannot reach an agreement within
ninety days after the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate or
by January 31 of a year in which the agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier,
an impasse exists and the impasse procedures in section 89-11 shall apply."
SECTION 2. Section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) An impasse during the term of a collective
bargaining agreement on reopened items or items regarding a supplemental
agreement shall not be subject to the impasse procedures in this section[.];
provided that an employer's failure to timely initiate a negotiation
on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit pursuant to section 89-9(f)(1)
or the parties' failure to reach an agreement on repricing within the timeframe
set forth in section 89-9(f)(2) shall constitute an impasse, to which the impasse
procedures in this section shall apply. The parties may mutually agree on an impasse
procedure, but if the procedure culminates in an arbitration decision, the
decision shall be pursuant to subsection (f)."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Collective Bargaining in Public Employment; Repricing of Classes; Negotiations; Impasse Procedures
Description:
Requires the
employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining
unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written
request to negotiate. Establishes that the
employer's failure to initiate the negotiation within such time frame and the parties'
failure to reach an agreement within ninety day of the exclusive representative's
written request to negotiate or by January 31 of a year in which the collective
bargaining agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier, constitute an impasse
to which the impasse procedures in section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall
apply.
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