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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 :: 4694 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 :: 5020 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 :: 8163 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Effort to Digitize Records Stopped Cold by Outdated State Computers--But Still Cuts Wait Time for Workers’ Comp Hearings in Half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 :: 5631 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 :: 5801 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 :: 7203 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 :: 5873 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 :: 4868 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 :: 4811 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 :: 4347 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 :: 5829 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 :: 9240 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 :: 5361 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 :: 6156 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 :: 7408 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 :: 6451 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 :: 4767 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 :: 5973 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 :: 5094 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 :: 5525 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 :: 4735 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 :: 4768 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 :: 8199 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 :: 5242 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 :: 5542 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 :: 5913 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 :: 9365 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 :: 5804 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 :: 9158 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 :: 5885 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 :: 5876 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 :: 7254 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 :: 8407 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 :: 4788 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 :: 10123 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 :: 11223 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 :: 5967 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 :: 6690 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 :: 5633 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 :: 4474 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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Thursday, November 9, 2017 |
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Legacy Pension Costs--Hawaii Scores D-
By Selected News Articles @ 1:57 AM :: 4808 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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Legacy Costs evaluates whether states provided adequate funding, as defined by retirement system actuaries, for pensions and other promised retirement benefits for public workers.....
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Thursday, November 2, 2017 |
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Video: ERS not out of woods yet
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:08 PM :: 4738 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...Featuring: Thom Williams, Executive director, Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii....
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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Audit: New Clause in Union Contract Boosts Overtime 50%
By News Release @ 4:36 PM :: 5922 Views :: Maui County, Labor
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...a correspondence received on October 20, 2017 from the Fire Chief, essentially claiming the Office of the County Auditor has no right to audit the MFD....
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Friday, October 13, 2017 |
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Workers Protest as Star-Adv lays off 25% of Newsroom
By News Release @ 4:29 AM :: 6582 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...publisher Dennis Francis of OPI, owned by Canada-based Black Press Ltd., is insisting on slashing wages and benefits for the remaining journalists....
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 |
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Recent Federal Court Ruling Affects Hawaii Tip Credit
By Selected News Articles @ 9:58 PM :: 5875 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...the 9th Circuit Court’s Marsh v. J. Alexander LLC decision makes life much easier for employers with tipped employees in Hawaii....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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Why is Hawaii so Healthy? Gallup vs Bloomberg
By Selected News Articles @ 1:32 PM :: 6661 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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...Gallup says it's exercise, Bloomberg says it's labor unions....
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017 |
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Does the Jones Act Endanger American Seamen?
By Michael Hansen @ 12:16 AM :: 5136 Views :: Jones Act, Labor
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...the Jones Act has contributed to a smaller and older domestic shipping industry with more dangerous conditions for American seamen....
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Monday, September 25, 2017 |
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Hawaii Lowest Teacher Salaries in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 PM :: 6245 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...adjusted for cost of living....
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii is #1 in Teacher Absenteeism at 79%
By Selected News Articles @ 2:51 PM :: 7452 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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In Hawaii about 79 percent of traditional public school teachers are chronically absent. In Hawaii charter schools it’s 23 percent…..
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