(a) Every employer shall keep in or about the premises wherein any employee is employed a contemporaneous, true, and accurate record of:

Need help with an employment contract?
Have it reviewed by a lawyer, get answers to your questions and move forward with confidence.
Connect with a lawyer now

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 387-6

  • Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. 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
  • 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
(1) The name, address, and occupation of each employee;
(2) The amount paid each pay period to each employee;
(3) The hours worked each day and each workweek by each employee;
(4) The rate or rates of pay of each employee and basis thereof, whether paid by the hour, shift, day, week, salary, piece, commission, or other basis; gross wages; deductions; allowances, if any, claimed as part of the minimum wage; and net wages; and
(5) Any other information and for the periods of time as the director may by rule prescribe.

The director or the director’s authorized representative shall for the purpose of examination have access to and the right to copy the records. Every employer shall furnish to the director or the director’s authorized representative any information relating to the employment of workers and in any manner as the director may prescribe.

(b) Every employer shall post and keep posted such notices pertaining to the application of the law as shall be prescribed by the director in conspicuous places in every establishment where any employee is employed so as to permit the employee to observe readily a copy on the way to or from the employee’s place of employment.
(c) Every employer shall furnish each employee at every pay period a legible printed, typewritten, or handwritten record showing the following:

(1) The name of the employee;
(2) The name of the employer;
(3) The address and telephone number of the employer;
(4) The employee’s total hours worked;
(5) The employee’s regular and overtime hours;
(6) The employee’s straight-time compensation;
(7) The employee’s overtime compensation;
(8) Any other compensation, including allowances, if any, claimed as part of the minimum wage;
(9) The employee’s total gross compensation;
(10) The amount and purpose of each deduction;
(11) The employee’s total net compensation;
(12) The date of payment;
(13) The pay period covered; and
(14) The rate or rates of pay and basis thereof, whether paid by the hour, shift, day, week, salary, piece, commission, or other basis, including overtime rate or rates of pay. For employees paid a piece rate, the record shall indicate the applicable piece rate or rates of pay, and the number of pieces completed at each piece rate;

provided that in lieu of the printed, typewritten, or handwritten record required by this subsection and upon receipt of written authorization from the employee, the employer may provide an electronic record that may be electronically accessed by the employee.

(d) The director shall cause this chapter to be printed and copies thereof shall be furnished to interested persons upon request without charge. Copies of orders of the director and of rules and regulations of the director shall also be furnished to employers affected thereby without charge.
(e) Every employer shall permit the director or the director’s authorized representative to confer with and interrogate any employee of the employer at the place of employment and during working hours with respect to any matter cognizable under this chapter.