Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-3

• Agriculture: means agriculture as defined in section 3(f) of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or as the same may be amended from time to time. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1
• Employ: includes to permit or suffer to work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1
• Employee: includes any individual employed by an employer, but shall not include any individual employed:

  (1) At a guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month, whether paid weekly, biweekly, or monthly;

  (2) In agriculture for any workweek in which the employer of the individual employs less than twenty employees or in agriculture for any workweek in which the individual is engaged in coffee harvesting;

  (3) In or about the home of the individual's employer:

  (A) In domestic service on a casual basis; or

  (B) Providing companionship services for the aged or infirm;

  (4) As a house parent in or about any home or shelter maintained for child welfare purposes by a charitable organization exempt from income tax under section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue Code;

  (5) By the individual's brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son, daughter, spouse, parent, or parent-in-law;

  (6) In a bona fide executive, administrative, supervisory, or professional capacity or in the capacity of outside salesperson or as an outside collector;

  (7) In the propagating, catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating, or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, crustacean, sponge, seaweed, or other aquatic forms of animal or vegetable life, including the going to and returning from work and the loading and unloading of such products prior to first processing;

  (8) On a ship or vessel and who has a Merchant Mariners Document issued by the United States Coast Guard;

  (9) As a driver of a vehicle carrying passengers for hire operated solely on call from a fixed stand;

  (10) As a golf caddy;

  (11) By a nonprofit school during the time such individual is a student attending such school;

  (12) In any capacity if by reason of the employee's employment in such capacity and during the term thereof the minimum wage which may be paid the employee or maximum hours which the employee may work during any workweek without the payment of overtime, are prescribed by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, or as the same may be further amended from time to time; provided that if the minimum wage which may be paid the employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act for any workweek is less than the minimum wage prescribed by § 387-2, then § 387-2 shall apply in respect to the employees for such workweek; provided further that if the maximum workweek established for the employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the purposes of overtime compensation is higher than the maximum workweek established under § 387-3, then § 387-3 shall apply in respect to such employee for such workweek; except that the employee's regular rate in such an event shall be the employee's regular rate as determined under the Fair Labor Standards Act;

  (13) As a seasonal youth camp staff member in a resident situation in a youth camp sponsored by charitable, religious, or nonprofit organizations exempt from income tax under section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue Code or in a youth camp accredited by the American Camping Association; or

  (14) As an automobile salesperson primarily engaged in the selling of automobiles or trucks if employed by an automobile or truck dealer licensed under chapter 437. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1

• Employer: includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but shall not include the State or any political subdivision thereof or the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1
• Seasonal pursuit: means one in which it is customary in each year for the volume of employment in such pursuit to be substantially increased during a regularly recurring period or periods of seasonal activity, and in the remainder of the year, owing to climate or other natural conditions, for the volume of employment to be substantially decreased. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1
• Wage: means (except as the department may provide under § 387-11) legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value thereof and in addition thereto the reasonable cost as determined by the department, to the employer of furnishing an employee with board, lodging, or other facilities if such board, lodging, or other facilities are customarily furnished by such employer to the employer's employees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1
• workweek: means a fixed and regularly recurring period of seven consecutive days. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-1