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An arbitration decision has determined public school employees in five bargaining units of the Hawaii's largest union are entitled to back pay of up to 25% of their total salaries for as much as two years.

Honolulu police officers who worked during the pandemic are entitled to hazard pay, according to an arbitrator.

Three months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck a potential blow to government employee unions by saying public workers don’t have to pay any union fees to hold government jobs, the decision appears to have had little effect in Hawaii.