§326-22  Compensation of patient employees. The compensation for patients employed under section 326-21 shall be set by thedepartment of health; provided that in no case shall the compensation be lessthan the minimum wage as established by section 387-2.

Each patient employee of the department shallbe entitled to and granted sick leave with pay and a vacation with pay eachcalendar year, each calculated at the following rate:

For patients working six hours a day, one andone-half days for each month of service;

For patients working five hours a day, one andone-quarter days for each month of service;

For patients working four hours a day, one dayfor each month of service.

A month of service is defined as eighty or morehours of work which may be accumulated over any period of time to total eightyhours.  No more than twelve months of service may be earned and credited in anycalendar year, even if the total number of hours worked should exceed ninehundred sixty hours. [PC 1869, c 62, §5; am L 1929, c 149, pt of §1; am L 1931,c 139, §5; am L 1933, c 118, §1; RL 1945, §2423; am L 1945, c 159, §1; am L1949, c 371, §1 and c 378, §1; RL 1955, §50-23; am L 1959, c 146, §1; am L Sp1959 2d, c 1, §19; am L 1962, c 28, §32; HRS §326-21; am L 1968, c 34, §2; am L1974, c 115, §1; ren and am L 1983, c 183, §3; am L 1989, c 66, §1]