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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-35

  • Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
  • Employee: includes any person suffered or permitted to work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
  • Employer: includes any individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, the personal representative of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, employing any persons, but shall not include the State or any political subdivision thereof or the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31

If the department of labor and industrial relations finds, after a hearing, that an employer has unlawfully suspended, discharged or discriminated against an employee in violation of section 378-32, the department may order the reinstatement, or reinstatement to the prior position, as the case may be, of the employee with or without backpay or may order the payment of backpay without any such reinstatement.