Hawaii state House leaders shelve bill to raise minimum wage
April 10, 2021
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HONOLULU (AP) Hawaii state House leaders have resisted union pressure to revive bills that would raise the minimum wage and exempt unemployment benefits from state income taxes.
House Majority Leader Della Au Belatti said the chamber would not take up the measures this year, citing budgetary concerns, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday.
The bill would have raised the minimum wage from $10.10 to $12 an hour starting July 1, 2022. Another bill would have exempted jobless benefits from Hawaii s income tax. Both bills passed the Senate last month but stalled in the House when the Labor and Tourism Committee did not schedule them for hearings.
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Labor Leaders Urge Lawmakers To Move Minimum Wage Increase - Honolulu Civil Beat
Labor Leaders Urge Lawmakers To Move Minimum Wage Increase
Teamsters, ILWU and Local 5 leaders ask House Speaker Scott Saiki to schedule a floor vote by Wednesday. Reading time: 2 minutes.
A half-dozen Hawaii labor leaders are urging House Speaker Scott Saiki to move quickly this week to schedule floor votes on stalled bills to increase Hawaii’s minimum wage and exempt unemployment payments from state income taxes.
Senate Bill 614 dealing with the state income tax on unemployment benefits and Senate Bill 676 to increase the state minimum wage to $12 an hour are both stuck in the House Labor and Tourism Committee, where Chairman Richard Onishi never scheduled them for a hearing.
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