§381-1  Definitions.  Where used in thischapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Director" means the director oflabor and industrial relations.

"Dispute" and "labordispute" mean any controversy concerning wages, hours, and other terms andconditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation ofpersons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrangewages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment.

"Employee" means any person, whether ornot a member of a labor organization, in the employ of a public utility andwhose duties pertain or relate to the public utility service in which thepublic utility is engaged.

"Labor organization" means anyorganization of employees which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, ofcollective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning wages, hours, andother terms and conditions of employment.

"Lockout" means the refusal of apublic utility to furnish work to employees as a result of a labor dispute.

"Public utility" has the meaninggiven that term in section 269-1, excluding, however, the State or any countyor any commission or board of the State or of any county, and any personsubject to the Federal Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time.

"Representative" means any person orpersons, labor organization, organization, or corporation designated either bya public utility or by employees to act for it or them.

"Strike" means the temporary stoppageof work, slowdown, or retarding of production or operations by the concertedaction of two or more employees as a result of a labor dispute. [L 1949, c 146,pt of §1; RL 1955, §91-2; HRS §381-1]

 

Revision Note

 

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Attorney General Opinions

 

  This chapter is invalid.  Att. Gen. Op. 67-7.