Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-24

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-1
• Employer: means any individual or organization, including the State, any of its political subdivisions, any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who employs one hundred or more employees for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 398-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.