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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 |
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Hawaii occupational licensing laws 'headed in wrong direction'
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:23 PM :: 5343 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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...Grassroot Institute president urges removal of barriers to economic mobility....
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 |
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DBEDT: US average labor earnings higher than Hawaii
By News Release @ 12:03 AM :: 5029 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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...and these figures are not adjusted for cost of living....
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Monday, April 9, 2018 |
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HSTA Bosses Reelected without Opposition
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 5135 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...HSTA State Leadership Team to Serve through 2021....
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Friday, April 6, 2018 |
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Mandatory paid sick leave wrong medicine for Hawaii economy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:16 PM :: 5524 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...There are currently three different bills still alive that would require local companies to give all employees paid sick leaves: HB 1727, HB 2598 and SB 2990 ....
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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Grassroot: Low unemployment masks Hawaii’s unhealthy economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:37 PM :: 6169 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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....Grassroot president says high taxes, regulations discourage higher-paying jobs....
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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Ethics: City Supervisor Caught Working Second Job on City Time
By News Release @ 2:40 AM :: 6096 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Labor
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...reimbursed the city in the amount of $1,891.20 approximately 62 hours of city time....
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Monday, April 2, 2018 |
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$30K Per Resident: Hawaii Worst OPEB Liability in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 1:16 PM :: 5229 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2017 surveys the more than 100 state-administered post-employment benefit plans, such as health insurance, Medicare advantage, life insurance, and other non-pension benefits....
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Friday, March 30, 2018 |
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How much privacy for public employees?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:35 PM :: 4874 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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......HB1768 would disclose salary information about government workers in the form of ranges, as opposed to exact compensation....
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 |
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HB2117: HSTA Pushes Bill to Outlaw Standardized Testing
By News Release @ 12:43 PM :: 5812 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...The bill has passed the House and will be heard today at 3:10pm in the Senate Education Committee in Room 229 at the state Capitol....
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Friday, March 16, 2018 |
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Hawaii Legislative Session: Victories and Challenges for Small Business
By News Release @ 8:02 PM :: 4777 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...from National Federation of Independent Business-Hawaii....
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Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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Janus: Abolishing mandatory fees could help unions
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:53 PM :: 5117 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...Will Hawaii’s public unions lose power if their membership dues become voluntary under a pending Supreme Court ruling in the case known as Janus v. AFSCME?....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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VIDEO: What happens if Hawaii becomes a Right-to-Work State Tomorrow?
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 8291 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...Panelists included: Tony Gill, partner at Gill Zukeran & Sgan Robert Alt, president of the Buckeye Institute....
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Monday, March 5, 2018 |
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Effort to Digitize Records Stopped Cold by Outdated State Computers--But Still Cuts Wait Time for Workers’ Comp Hearings in Half
By Selected News Articles @ 5:58 PM :: 5732 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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...Thousands of files have been digitized at the state’s disability compensation program. However, they need hardware with capacity for more storage to continue progress....
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Monday, February 26, 2018 |
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Supreme Court Justices Excoriate Union Lawyers Defending Forced Dues
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 5895 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...The immense political influence of public sector unions appeared imperiled Monday, as several justices of the U.S. Supreme Court grilled labor lawyers over the constitutionality of mandatory union dues....
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Thursday, February 15, 2018 |
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ERS Fires Investment Officer After Losses on VIX Puts
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 PM :: 7320 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Chattergy told WSJ Hawaii will continue to sell these put contracts, convinced the income will offset market turbulence....
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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Honolulu Rail Creates One Tenth of Jobs Promised
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 7:33 PM :: 5975 Views :: Labor, Rail
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...HART rail is being built one segment at a time by a single builder, instead of having, say 4 builders building 5 miles each, simultaneously....
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Friday, February 9, 2018 |
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2018 Employment Bills Introduced
By News Release @ 5:53 PM :: 4947 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...Want to know what labor and employment bills will be considered during this year’s legislative session?....
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Friday, February 9, 2018 |
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Minimum Wage: Good intentions don’t always equal good policy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:38 PM :: 4891 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...SB2291 would raise the minimum wage in Hawaii to $15 an hour by 2020....
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Thursday, February 8, 2018 |
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Ige Appoints Leonard Hoshijo to Head DLIR
By News Release @ 1:30 AM :: 4429 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Hoshijo served as education and political director with the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters. He also worked for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union for 26 years....
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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Ige Asks Legislators to 'Governmentize' Services
By Joe Kent @ 4:11 AM :: 5921 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Small Business
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...HB 2368 and SB 2795 would begin replacing private contractors with civil service employees....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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Legislators Want CWS to Investigate All Homeschooling Families
By News Release @ 1:32 AM :: 9446 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Labor
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...Last week, three bills were introduced by the Hawaii Legislature that would significantly restrict homeschool freedom: Senate Bills 2274 and 2323, and House Bill 2244....
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Friday, February 2, 2018 |
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Janus?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:17 PM :: 5464 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...a decision by the court’s nine justices that state employees can't be required to pay union dues could lead to some interesting outcomes in Hawaii....
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Friday, February 2, 2018 |
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Hawaii Chamber of Commerce Introduces Legislative Package
By News Release @ 3:02 AM :: 6246 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Tax Credits
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...Bill to address Adams v. CDM court ruling (HB2201/SB2993)....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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HSTA Pushing Massive Property Tax Hike
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 7510 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes, Tourism
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....more money and less accountability....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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FCC: Hawaii false missile alert sent by worker believing attack was real
By News Release @ 11:28 AM :: 6556 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Military
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...Federal Communications Commission conducts open meeting to hear investigator's report on false missile alert....
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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Wage floor great for robots
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:57 AM :: 4859 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...it’s not a living wage if you’ve been replaced by a robot....
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Friday, January 26, 2018 |
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Ward: Fire Employees who do not Cooperate with Missile Alert Investigation
By Rep Gene Ward @ 9:33 PM :: 6061 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Military
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“This is not about an individual, this is about our national security."
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Friday, January 26, 2018 |
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Hawaii 2nd Most Unionized State
By News Release @ 12:55 AM :: 5196 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Hawaii -- 21.3 percent of employees are union members....
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Monday, January 15, 2018 |
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In Hawaii, No Heads Roll over False Missile Alarm
By Selected News Articles @ 6:27 PM :: 5627 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...“Once a Japanese manager or his underlings are caught in a scandalous situation, they have no other choice but to resign so that the many others who are dependent on them do not take the blame or suffer any of the consequences.”....
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018 |
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Hawaii: Happiest Workers in America?
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 4826 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Creativity was a big factor in job satisfaction — Video Game Producer, Film Director, Music Producer and Comedian were labelled as the happiest jobs in the country, along with Neurosurgeon....
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Thursday, January 4, 2018 |
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Fishermen Settle Labor-Trafficking Case
By Selected News Articles @ 4:35 PM :: 4866 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...“We hope it becomes a model for all captains who want to do right by their immigrant crew.”....
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018 |
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Maui hospitals point the way
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:16 AM :: 8371 Views :: Maui County, Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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...the state should consider privatizing more of its medical facilities....
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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Best Place to Find a Job? With Record Low Unemployment Honolulu Still Ranks 42nd
By Selected News Articles @ 2:13 PM :: 5336 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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...comparind more than 180 U.S. cities across 26 key indicators of job-market strength....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Sets Record Low as Labor Force Shrinks
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 5641 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Labor force drops 1% -- from 690,800 to 684,350 year over year....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Bloomberg: Jones Act political contributions and lobbying
By Michael Hansen @ 6:36 PM :: 6017 Views :: Ethics, Jones Act, Labor
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...Still playing with U.S. ports....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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State pension woes raise specter of county bankruptcies
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:15 PM :: 9505 Views :: Maui County, Labor, Taxes
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...Hokama also asked Thom Williams, executive director of the ERS, if the debt would still be owed if the county went bankrupt....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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Bureaucracy thwarts state modernization
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:07 PM :: 5910 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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...Hawaii’s entrenched state and county bureaucracies delaying the advance of high technology into their own operations....
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Sunday, December 10, 2017 |
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Tech: 'Clinically Psychotic' HGEA Signs Suicide Pact
By Andrew Walden @ 8:27 PM :: 9363 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor, Politicians
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...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness....
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Thursday, December 7, 2017 |
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Ige Appoints DLIR Director to Head DoTax
By News Release @ 9:02 PM :: 5987 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Taxes
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...Takayama has served as the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) since April 2015. She will assume her new position on Monday, Dec. 11....
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017 |
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Pasha Hawaii charged in labor dispute
By Michael Hansen @ 11:46 PM :: 5989 Views :: Jones Act, Labor
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...It may also lead to speculation that Pasha and the shipbuilder Keppel have not yet completed their ship design....
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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Ethics Fine: Guard Must Return Cash after $10K Inmate Payoff
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 7372 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Labor, Law Enforcement
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...In or around November 2009, Respondent Kanazawa-Yee and two other ACOs, ACO A and ACO B, planned to obtain money from Inmate....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Hawaii's Best Workplace? Monsanto
By News Release @ 3:28 PM :: 8552 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, GMOs
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...Monsanto took first place, scoring an impressive 91.6 percent....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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Pension pinches profligacy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:00 AM :: 4870 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Hawaii’s county governments — and county taxpayers — are about to feel the pinch....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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Hawaii State Hospital Employees Game Overtime System
By Andrew Walden @ 2:01 AM :: 10267 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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A federal court order is being ignored so union members at the Hawai’i State Hospital can manipulate work rules....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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Hospital Crisis: How to Use Union Work Rules for Fun and Profit
By Andrew Walden @ 2:00 AM :: 11426 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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Hawaii public hospital workers earn less but cost more than their private sector counterparts. How is that possible?
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
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HGEA Hospital Debacle: DOH Places Seven On Leave
By News Release @ 1:48 AM :: 6079 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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...after decades ignoring the festering problems at the HGEA job trust State Hospital, AG and DoH pretend to suddenly be oh-so-very-concerned....
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017 |
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‘Psychopathic’ escapee from Hawaii arrested in Stockton
By Selected News Articles @ 2:19 PM :: 6812 Views :: Health Care, Labor, Law Enforcement
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San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Deputies said they arrested Randall Saito, the Hawaii State Hospital escapee, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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$1.8B Special Fund Audit: DHRD Refuses to Report to Legislature
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 1:42 AM :: 5736 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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..."We disagree with DHRD. The statutory requirements that DHRD report to the Legislature are unambiguous and do not exempt these trust funds." -- Auditor....
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 |
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Counties stuck with bailing out pension debt
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:11 PM :: 4552 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...the state Legislature has discovered a new tactic for meeting its public pension financial obligations: passing the costs on to the counties....
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