HB 1652 Summary

• Establishes the "Caregivers Compensation Compassionate Care Act" requiring employers with 100 or more employees to provide 12 months of paid caregiving leave annually to employees caring for spouses, civil union partners, reciprocal beneficiaries, significant others, relatives, friends, or neighbors.

• Allows caregiving leave to be taken intermittently during each calendar year and permits cumulative leave upon medical review by a health care provider.

• Prohibits employers from requiring employees to use accrued sick leave, vacation leave, or compensatory leave for caregiving purposes, and protects employees' job positions and benefits upon return from leave.

• Establishes a web-based data collection system administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in partnership with the University of Hawaii Center on Aging to track caregiving leave usage and inform future caregiver services development.

• Creates enforcement mechanisms including complaint filing, investigation, administrative hearings, civil actions, and remedies including back wages, actual monetary losses up to 12 months of salary, and liquidated damages; violations are petty misdemeanors.