Bill Text: HI SB846 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Employees; Payroll Lag; Repeal
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-24 - (S) Referred to JDL, WAM. [SB846 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB846-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to salary periods.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that, prior to the implementation of the payroll lag for public employees, Hawaii law did not allow any employer to delay payment of wages to an employee for more than seven days after the end of a pay period. The legislature believes that prompt payment of wages earned is a fair and sound fiscal policy and that, currently, there are no facts to justify a payroll lag for public employees whose base salaries often are already quite low. To require public employees to wait longer to receive the paychecks that they have already earned lowers the value of the wages that public employees receive. Excessive delays are unfair to public employees and constitute poor business and management practices.
The purpose of this Act is to ensure fair and timely payment of wages to public employees by repealing the State's authority to engage in unacceptable and abusive payroll delays.
SECTION 2. Section 78-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Unless otherwise provided by law,
all officers and employees shall be paid at least semimonthly except that
substitute teachers, part-time hourly rated teachers of adult and evening
classes, and other part-time, intermittent, or casual employees may be paid
once a month [and that the governor, upon reasonable notice and upon
determination that the payroll payment basis should be converted from predicted
payroll to after-the-fact payroll, may allow a one-time once a month payroll
payment to all public officers and employees to effect a conversion to after-the-fact
payroll as follows:
(1) The implementation of the
after-the-fact payroll will commence with the June 30, 1998, pay day, which
will be delayed to July 1, 1998;
(2) The July 15, 1998, pay day will be
delayed to July 17, 1998;
(3) The July 31, 1998, pay day will be
delayed to August 3, 1998;
(4) The August 14, 1998, pay day will be
delayed to August 19, 1998;
(5) The August 31, 1998, pay day will be
delayed to September 4, 1998;
(6) The September 15, 1998, pay day will be
delayed to September 18, 1998; and
(7) Thereafter, pay days will be on the
fifth and the twentieth of every month. If the fifth and the twentieth fall on
a state holiday, Saturday, or Sunday, the pay day will be the immediately
preceding weekday.
The implementation of the after-the-fact payroll
shall not be subject to negotiation under chapter 89]. Payday shall be
on the first and fifteenth of each month. If the first or the fifteenth day
falls on a state holiday, Saturday, or Sunday, the payday shall be the
immediately preceding weekday. The implementation of the predicted payroll
shall not be subject to negotiation under chapter 89."
SECTION 3. The governor and the comptroller, in implementing this Act, shall take any necessary steps to ensure that minimal disruptions occur in the payment of salary or wages to public employees.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Employees; Payroll Lag; Repeal
Description:
Eliminates payroll lag for public employees; provides that paydays for public employees shall be on the first and fifteenth day of the month.
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