HB 207 Summary

• Requires employers with five or more employees to provide a 20-minute rest break to any employee working six or more hours but less than eight hours on a shift.

• Permits employers and employees to negotiate rest break terms, including the option for employees to decline taking a rest break.

• Allows rest breaks to be unpaid, provided employees are fully relieved of their work duties during unpaid breaks.

• Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 387-3 to add rest break requirements while maintaining existing overtime compensation rules for hours exceeding 40 per workweek.

• Takes effect on July 1, 2023.