Labor

Legislation to fund pay raises for government professional and scientific employees will be introduced by House Republicans during the Special Session....

Second year: Placement of employees on their appropriate step and continuation of the step movement plan....

The Hawaii Jobs Explorer, the first interactive tool to be released as a part of the ongoing UHERO Dashboard Project, is now available for public use....

In September, Plaintiffs’ counsel was informed that the State anticipates that the earliest date on which payments can be made will be the March 5, 2014 pay date....

President Wil Okabe shares HSTA’s “Three Priorities” for 2013-2014....

...listen to Dr. Akina further discuss the problem on HPR’s “The Conversation”....

In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for another special Obamacare break....

...without changes to the way the ACA is implemented, there are likely to be "unintended consequences" that will hurt workers' health care coverage....

"I'm going to f*** with the environmentalists even if I don't have a dog in the fight"

For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious....

Once they establish principles for reform, legislators can choose from a menu of options. Tinkering with existing plans is the most obvious, and sometimes the easiest....

...benefits in Hawaii average $49,175 — tops in the nation....

Grassroot Institute President Akina calls for strengthening system to improve employment incentive....

...a refrigerated food warehouse in Honolulu occupied by Unicold Corp. and nine tenants....

Musto discusses with Grassroot Institute’s president Keli’i Akina the similarities and differences between Detroit and Hawaii in light of Detroit’s recent declaration of bankruptcy....

Artates is also executive director of the Hawaii Operating Engineers Stabilization Fund...Sentencing hearings are scheduled Sept. 23....

OPEB-related corruption has been in the news for years.  For instance....

Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested politicians and coercive public employee unions....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

News of the very generous pay increases granted to police officers sent shock waves through the ranks of city and county officials across the state generating calls for “revenue enhancements” or tax increases....

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

The agreement will go into effect upon the settlement and ratification of union contracts by Hyatt associates in San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Chicago.....

Bargaining Unit 14, to represent state law enforcement officers, and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers....

Abercrombie’s office quietly slipped two more executive orders onto its webpage this week....

HSTA won a victory through bargaining this spring with agreement by the Employer to create a Joint Committee to study the Educator Evaluation System....

One of the largest hospitality unions in the nation will protest President Barack Obama’s commerce secretary nominee on Thursday, the first day of her confirmation hearings....

Hawaii has amended its Employment Security Law as follows....

HGEA’s Unit 8 membership consists of approximately 2,350 administrative, professional and technical University of Hawaii employees....

House Bill 634, which would require the purchase of a company to hire 100 percent of the seller’s employees, is now in a conference committee....

SB535SD1HD2 would make it illegal for any Hawaii family to fire or otherwise change the employment status of nannies, babysitters, caretakers, and other domestic workers....