RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Disallows compensation for physical or mental injury resulting from a disciplinary or other personnel action taken in good faith by the employer.

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Excludes from workers' compensation coverage claims for mental stress from personnel actions.

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Reduces the cost of workers' compensation benefits for businesses in Hawaii by providing alternatives to injured employees who are trying to restore their earning capacities and to set parameters for the utilization of rehabilitation services.

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Adds care and services furnished by occupational therapist and occupational therapist assistant to definition of "medical care", "medical services", or "medical supplies".

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Adds "occupational therapist" and "certified occupational therapy assistant" to the definition of medical care for workers' compensation purposes.

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION

Proposes amendments to the constitution to authorize the BOE to set the rate of taxation in the manner provided by law.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

To conform state statutes with amendments to the Reed Act funds relating to section 903 of the Social Security Act (SSA) for the federal fiscal years ending in 2000, 2001, and 2002 to require that these funds be expended only for Unemployment Insurance administrative expenses.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

Makes the employment and training fund assessment permanent and sets the employment and training fund assessment rate at 0.03%.

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW

Establishes medical care savings account.

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND

Establishes medical care savings accounts in the public employees health fund for health care needs for state and county employees.

RELATING TO SICK LEAVE

Requires an employer who provides sick leave to permit an employee to use their sick leave to attend to the illness of their child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary. Prohibits an employer from denying the use of sick leave, discharging, demoting, suspending, or discriminating in the terms and conditions of employment against an employee for using or attempting to exercise the right to use sick leave to attend to the illness of a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary.

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT

Extends unemployment benefits for former employees of Amfac Sugar Kauai.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Allows qualified members of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) to purchase their military service credit. Allows a surviving spouse of a member of the ERS to remarry and still receive retirement benefits arising for their former spouse's employment.

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Proposes defined contribution retirement plan for certain public employees as an optional retirement plan.

RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND CAREER INFORMATION

To abolish the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee and make clerical amendments.

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT

Requires bidders for printing and advertising services to file a sworn statement with the director or labor and industrial relations that the services to be performed will be performed under certain conditions. Establishes penalties for violating this requirement.

RELATING TO HAWAII COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Establishes Hawaii commission for national and community service. Provides for selection, terms, and duties of commission members. Appropriates funds.

LAB, HLT/HSH,

EDN/HED, WLU/EEP, JHA, FIN

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Repeals mandatory arbitration provisions and restores the right to strike to public employees.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Clarifies scope of negotiations and consultation relating to policies, procedures, practices, and the collective bargaining agreement. Implements and maintains the classification system covering civil service positions. Implements a non-judicial process for addressing management complaints against the exclusive representative.

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS, FINANCIAL ABILITY OF THE EMPLOYER IN IMPASSE PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSFER OF THE OFFICE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Proposal to limit the duration of any public sector collective bargaining agreement to two years; to require any fact-finding panel, arbitrator or arbitration panel to consider the impact of any recommendation or award of cost items upon pending collective bargaining negotiations and to take these costs into consideration, along with costs of collective bargaining agreements already agreed to, in determining the employers' financial ability to pay; and to administratively attach the Office of Collective Bargaining to the Department of Human Resources Development.

RELATING TO THE MERIT APPEALS BOARD

Allow the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to handle for the State, the merit appeals from employment actions under chapter 76 taken against civil service employees.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

Makes level and type of health benefits for public employees, as well as contributions, subject to collective bargaining.

RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS

Eliminates overtime compensation, differentials, and supplementary pay from the calculation of retirement benefits for all employees after 6/30/00. Clarifies that for purposes of determining the amount of a member's contribution to the annuity savings fund, a member's compensation does not include payments for overtime, differentials, and supplementary pay.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Prohibits the excessive assignment of overtime for the sole purpose of increasing an employee's average final compensation under Section

88-21, HRS.

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Provide fund authorizations and appropriations for State officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining. The appropriations cover the fiscal biennium 2001-2003.

RELATING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

Requires the proposed adjustments to compensation and benefit packages for excluded civil service employees to be at least equivalent to the adjustments provided in other jurisdictions.

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS

Increase the compensation of department directors and/deputies and the administrative director of the State.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Provides for wage and salary adjustments for public sector managers excluded from collective bargaining that are on par with their civil service counterparts.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Changes the salary growth assumption rate to ___ per cent effective _________.

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Increases Board membership from eight to nine members to include a fourth citizen trustee and authorize the Governor to appoint the chairperson of the board of trustees.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Allows deputy sheriffs the same retirement benefits as police officers and firefighters.

RELATING TO PENSIONERS' BONUS

Reinstates pensioners' bonuses provided to retirants of the employees' retirement system.

RELATING TO PENSIONERS' SPECIAL COMPENSATION

Amends the employees' retirement system law to provide for special compensation to pensioners.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Provides a military service credit of up to 4 years to qualified retirants of the ERS.

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Rep. Terry Nui Yoshinaga