STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1500

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1087

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1087, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's Wage and Hour Law by repealing the definition's categorical exclusion of any employee who receives guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rainbow Family 808, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, Democratic Party of Hawaii Education Caucus, Imua Alliance, IATSE 665, Democratic Party of Hawaii Labor Caucus, and two individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice.

Your Committee recognizes that employees who are guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month are not currently guaranteed the protections provided by the minimum wage rates, overtime rates, and employer recordkeeping requirements of chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, otherwise known as the State's Wage and Hour Law. Your Committee finds that increasing the number of employees and employers covered under Hawaii's Wage and Hour Law, as proposed by this measure, will promote the health and well-being of Hawaii's workforce and increase workplace efficiency.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1087, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1087, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair