Thursday, February 7, 2013

DLIR Annual Report Released

  The Annual Report for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for Fiscal Year 2012 was posted today.  You can find it under Reports at labor.hawaii.gov.  Providing this document for public review is an important element of transparency. 

Divisions suffer staffing shortages

Yes, it makes interesting reading even if it is somewhat dismal.  Many divisions are still struggling with staffing issues and laden with work that is slowly, being processed.  The important part of that sentence is "being processed".  Each area is working hard despite the thin ranks to keep the wheels turning.

Accomplishments
Despite low staffing issues each Division had important accomplishments in FY 12 I hope you will read about.  The Wage Standards Division managed to recover almost one million dollars in back wages for 362 employees.  In addition almost $85,000 was paid to the general fund in penalties.  More than half of the amount recovered under the prevailing wage law in Fiscal Year 12 can be attributed to one case that was distributed to 64 employees.  

Looking forward

With the legislature in full swing, it already looks as though minimum wage is going up as bills have made it past the first comittees on both the Senate (SB331 SD1)and House (HB 916) side.  Now the question seems to be, what level and when?  Only time will tell.



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