S.C.R. No. 101 Summary

• Open at least one employment office in each of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui counties, and at least two offices on Oahu (in Waipahu and Honolulu) for in-person unemployment assistance.

• Increase handling capacity for unemployment benefit claims by thirty percent through hiring, assigning, or reassigning staff as necessary.

• Complete the upgrading and modernization of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' unemployment benefit claims computer system.

• Require the Board of Education and State Librarian to work with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide training and policies enabling state library staff to assist persons filing unemployment claims on public access computers.

• Bookmark the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Unemployment Insurance Claimant Services webpage on all public library computers and reserve at least one computer per library for unemployment benefit filing; complete all requests within thirty days of resolution receipt.