HI SB2460

Extends Hawaii Employment Relations Act protections to private sector workers normally covered by the National Labor Relations Act when the NLRB lacks a quorum for 30 or more consecutive days

Responds to federal NLRB dysfunction in 2025, when the board lacked a quorum for over 10 months following the removal of a sitting member in January 2025

Hawaii has the highest union membership rate in the nation at 24.1% of wage and salary workers as of 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Amends the definition of "employee" in Section 377-1 of Hawaii Revised Statutes to include workers under federal jurisdiction during periods of NLRB incapacity

Notes that two other states have already enacted similar collective bargaining laws to fill gaps created by federal government actions in 2025