In recognition of the Thirty-Second Hawaii State Legislature's recent opening of its 2023 session, Hawaii Employers Council (HEC) and SHRM Hawaii are pleased to announce their legislative affairs coalition’s focus on issues impacting Hawaii's employers and the business community.
The allied organizations in the coalition will monitor and evaluate employment laws and other bills of interest introduced at the federal, state, and local levels. HEC is the only employers’ association in the state that provides human resources and labor relations services. SHRM Hawaii is devoted to human resource management and will advise and advocate during the legislative session.
This 2023 session promises to be a busy one for employment laws, and a good number of the proposed issues and bills are currently advancing their way through the state legislature, including:
- Concealed carry laws for weapons in sensitive places
- New initiatives based on the state's nearly $2 billion surplus
- Workforce development, such as new training and technological infrastructure programs to support the local and home-based workforce
- Tax incentives for employer-based childcare benefits
- Paid sick leave
- Paid family leave
- Predictive scheduling
- Dislocated worker law revisions
- Work break and pay practices
- Mandated job posting requirements
- Various employment practices and protecting employee rights
- Recreational marijuana uses and/or workplace protections for medical use
- Employee health care and insurance
- Job creation tax incentives
About Hawaii Employers Council
The Hawaii Employers Council (HEC) is a private, non-profit employer association dedicated to helping employers build skilled, engaged, and effective workforces. Founded in 1943, HEC has served Hawaii's business community for nearly 80 years. HEC serves over 800 employers statewide with strategic human resources consultancy on employment law, employee and labor relations, collective bargaining negotiations, pay data and compensation, organizational development and effectiveness, and training.
About SHRM Hawaii
SHRM Hawaii is a 501(c)(6) professional organization, incorporated in 1989, and represents over 600 Human Resource professionals throughout the state of Hawaii. Its mission is to advance the profession's capacity to drive workplace excellence within business, education, government, and communities across our islands. SHRM Hawaii is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest association devoted to human resource management representing over 300,000 individual members across 165 countries.
For more information on the bills being tracked, visit out Legislative Updates page.