Labor Laws & Policies

SELECTED LAW TEXTS (Statutes)

• Hawai‘i State Constitution
• Hawai‘i Revised Statutes
• The Law of Aloha
• COLLECTVE BARGAINING LAWS:
  • The National Labor Relations Act
  • Labor Relations Statute for Federal Employees
  • Hawai‘i Employment Relations Act, HRS Chapter 377
  • Hawai‘i Public Employment Relations Act, HRS Chapter 89
  • Railway Labor Act
• LMRDA -Landrum-Griffin Act
• Hawai‘i Workers’ Compensation Law, HRS Chapter 386
• Hawai‘i Employment Practices Act, HRS Chapter 378
• ERISA-Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

LAWS DESCRIBED:

ADVISORY:
This section of the CLEAR Home Page links to archived descriptions of a variety of different federal and State labor laws basic rights and benefits to employees, as interpreted by Dr. William Puette before his retirement in 2023. These descriptions are not intended to capture all the details of the laws listed, but are provided as basic information only. For more detailed information, the enforcing agencies should be contacted directly. The Hawai‘i phone numbers for most of the agencies are included for your convenience.

Collective Bargaining & Union Representation:

• Private Sector Collective Bargaining FAQs
• Weingarten Rights

Health & Safety Laws:

• OSHA & Hawai‘i Occupational Safety and Health Law
• Substance Abuse Testing
• Hawai‘i’s Workers’ Compensation Act
• Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA).
• Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act.

Wage Loss Replacement Laws:

• Unemployment Insurance
• Hawai‘i’s Additional Unemployment Compensation Law
• Dislocated Workers, WARN and Plant Closure laws
• Hawai‘i Temporary Disability Insurance Law
• Hawai‘i Prepaid Health Care Act

Wage & Hour Laws:

• Hawai‘i’s Family Leave Act
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• The Fair Labor Standards Act
• Minimum Wage Laws
• The Hawai‘i Wage and Hour Law
• Hawai‘i Payment of Wages Law
• Hawai‘i Garnishment of Wages Law
• Hawai‘i Child Labor Law
• Hawai‘i Time Off for Voting Law
• Employment Rights after Military Leave

Prevailing Wage Laws:

• Davis-Bacon & Prevailing Wages Laws
• The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act
• The Service Contracts Act

Employment Discrimination Laws:

• Federal Civil Rights Laws
  • Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts
  • Equal Pay Act
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Age Discrimination in Employment Act
  • Pregnancy Discrimination Act
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
  • Sexual Harassment Regulations
• Hawai‘i’s Employment Practices Act:
  • Part I: Unlawful Employment Discrimination
  • Part II: Polygraphs/Lie Detectors
  • Part III: Garnishee protection
  • Part IV: Duty of Fair Represenation
  • Part V: Hawai‘i’s Whistleblowers’ Protection Act

Wrongful Termination Law

Workplace Privacy Laws

Related Hot Links:

• Government Labor Boards and Agencies
• Other Labor Law sites

Click here for the text of the Hough Decision of the Hawai’i Supreme Court relating to Workers’ Compensation [83 H 457].

Click here for the text of the Weingarten Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to union representation at disciplinary interviews

Click here for access to a helpful Glossary of Labor and Legal Terminology