Small Business

... Any bills that made it past this deadline now have until March 9 to complete their last committee hearing ....

... Measure To Impose Strict Safety Requirements And Provide For State And Local Community Disruption Regulation On Commercial Air Tour Operations ....

... The Conservation Council for Hawaii sued National Marine Fisheries Service ....

... The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii says making it easier for qualified medical professionals to practice here would improve healthcare access ....

... This can make it very difficult for Hawaii employers to offer HDHPs to their employees ....

... repeal the price fixing provisions in the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu ....

... Some members of the Hawaii County Council are proposing tighter regulations on hosted short-term rentals ....

... Beginning today, parties to certain small claims cases will be required to use TurboCourt, an online application, to file, negotiate, and attempt to resolve their small claims cases ....

... the lifting of the injunction in the WHRFMA does not permit the immediate resumption of commercial aquarium fishing ....

... we have high hopes for a few ideas that could make a real difference for our state ....

... the average cost for a dozen eggs in Hawaii is about $9.73. That's 51% higher than a year earlier and 53% higher than #2 Florida ....

... Hawaii lawmakers introducing consumer privacy bills and biometric privacy bills ....

... spend nearly three times as long on educational requirements and be faced with shelling out twice as much in associated fees ....

... Hawaii is the fourth-worst state in the country when it comes to requiring occupational licenses ....

... Jobs increased by 25,800 over-the-year ....

... “License to Work” study looks at state regulations nationwide ....

... Hawaii has the highest average burdens across the occupations it licenses ....

... total nonagricultural jobs increased by 4,900 in October over September ....

... a typical residential building permit application took 108 days to process, while one for a commercial project took 432 days ....

... The state is short more than 1,000 doctors, which means some patients cannot get care, and the ones who do have to wait a long time. ...

... A preliminary injunction against Oahu’s ban on short-term rentals of fewer than 90 days is a bad sign for the City & County of Honolulu ....

... Hawaii is one of the most difficult states in which to start a business ....

... Hawaii’s unemployment insurance (UI) program is funded exclusively by employers via state and federal payroll taxes on wages ....

... A proposed certification scheme for community health workers would burden the workers and raise prices for everyone, according to a new report by Hawaii Office of the State Auditor ....

... more transparency is required to ensure plans account for our local culture, and not simply copying a California plan for Hawaiʻi use ....

... Formerly known as Bill 41, the new law was supposed to go into effect this week, but a federal judge temporarily blocked it until its provisions can be hashed out in court ....

... Certification permits have long been required for surf and sailboard instructors, catamaran and canoe captains and second captains, and commercial motorboat operators, operating in Waikiki ....

... a warning letter Kugle sent Oct. 21 to Honolulu officials about how they should be cautious that their publicized intent to 'aggressively' enforce the law doesn’t violate the judge’s order ....

... a decade-long scheme to defraud investors of millions of dollars in connection with Semisub Inc ....

... two illegal large capacity cesspools at the Wailuku Professional Plaza in Hilo and one cesspool at the SKS Management LLC self-storage business in Kailua-Kona .... 

... Violating the ordinance meant massive daily fines ($10k), plus disgorgement of the rent. Thus, not surprisingly, the ordinance drew a federal court challenge from property owners ....

... Airbnbs and similar rentals on Oahu can continue operations as usual for now ....

... the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams said the administration is not considering an expansion to PRIMNM ....

... Video of presentation at Hawaii Pacific University ....

... Scientists Concerned with Lack of Data to Support Marine Monument Expansion ....

... the Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance alleges the ordinance will cause irreparable economic damages to owners that have been renting out properties for less than 90 days....

... might the wage increase backfire and actually end up harming the very people it was supposed to help ....

... How much does it cost to hire an employee in Hawaii? ....

... in Hawaii County, residential permits take about 143 days to issue. In Honolulu, it’s 108 days for residential projects and 432 days for commercial projects over $1 million ....

... The legislation authorizes the Hawai‘i Green Infrastructure Authority to administer C-PACE for the soon-to-be available financing program ....

"...as firms reorganize their production in response to the higher minimum, they start substituting away from these workers on whom the minimum wage binds and towards those on whom it does not....”

... the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June was 4.3 percent, compared to the revised rate of 4.1 percent in May ....

... Launching any type of business involves risk, but health care providers face an extra hurdle in Hawaii ....

... To rank America’s Top States for Business in 2022, CNBC scored all 50 states on 88 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness ....

... no mention of a fuel dock ....

... Hawai‘i Small Business Capital Program (HI-CAP) Collateral Support Program, designed to assist borrowers in obtaining financing that might otherwise be unavailable due to a collateral shortfall ....

.... eleven companies (down from 15) will be continuing to participate in the Digital Currency Innovation Lab (DCIL) program ....

... Act 114 increases the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour starting Oct. 1, 2022 ....

... Hawaii's labor force increased by 7,400 people from May 2021 to May 2022 ....

“...Evidence of the Unintended Labor Scheduling Implications of the Minimum Wage....”