Labor

The Honolulu City Council has been looking to reallocate money in the city’s budget to fund other projects, namely required sewer infrastructure upgrades on Oʻahu, and about $12.4 million could come from funds otherwise meant to hire for Honolulu Police Department jobs that are chronically vacant.

A company that provides services to the airlines at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu is ending its operations there. That means dozens of workers will lose their jobs. We get more on that story from Pacific Business News Editor-in-Chief Janis Magin.

The first of May is celebrated as International Workers' Day. On Thursday, hundreds of union members planned to gather for a silent march from the state Capitol to the federal building.

State lawmakers have passed a bill aiming to streamline the unemployment filing process, but some worry it goes too far.

As the Trump administration attempts to reshape the federal workforce, the head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Randy Perreira, gives insight into the direct impacts on labor unions.

HPR continues to look at how federal funding cuts have affected people in Hawaiʻi. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote talked to three federal workers who were fired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Kauaʻi amid Trump's efforts to downsize the government.

State lawmakers want to develop a framework for a paid family leave program. The House Labor Committee advanced a resolution to create a working group to produce a report on paid family leave that could include proposed legislation.

The City and County of Honolulu is still actively recruiting displaced federal employees and professionals from non-governmental organizations impacted by federal funding cuts. This is in response to Gov. Josh Green's executive order on Feb. 18 that aims to tap into the pool of laid-off federal workers and fill over 4,000 open positions in state government.

The Commission on Salaries recommended that the governor receive an $85,000 raise spread over the next six years. State lawmakers will not receive their first 32% raise until 2027 — after the next election.

The County of Hawaiʻi has reached an agreement for COVID-19 hazard pay with the Hawaiʻi Government Employees Association and Hawaiʻi Fire Fighters Association. Hazard pay negotiations had been a contentious issue.