Hawaii Revised Statutes 381. Labor Disputes; Public Utilities

• 381-1 Definitions.
  Where used in this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Director" means the director of labor and industrial relations. "Dispute" and "labor dispute"...
• 381-2 Duty to Avoid Lockouts and Strikes by Collective Bargaining.
  In order to avoid any interruption of public utility service to users, consumers, or the public, any public utility and its employees and their...
• 381-3 Notice of Impasse Required; Effect of Collective Bargaining Agreements.
  When an impasse is reached in any dispute between a public utility employer and its employees, either party to the dispute claiming the existence...
• 381-4 Appointment of Emergency Board.
  Following receipt of a notice of impasse from either party as specified in section 381-3, the director of labor and industrial relations shall forthwith...
• 381-5 Hearings; Report.
  The emergency board shall notify the employer and the employees or their representatives of the time and place for commencement of hearings, which hearings...
• 381-6 Powers of Board; Evidence, Witnesses; Process by Mail, Etc.
  The emergency board may hold hearings at any place within the State, subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, compel the production of books and...
• 381-7 Status Quo Maintained.
  After the notice required by section 381-3 is filed with the director of labor and industrial relations and until ten days after the report...
• 381-8 Procedure Where Dispute Not Resolved.
  For the ten-day period after the report of the emergency board has been filed with the governor, there shall be no strike or lockout....
• 381-9 Strikes and Lockouts Prohibited, When.
  It shall be unlawful for any employees of a public utility to call a strike or go out on strike causing or threatening to...
• 381-10 Injunction.
  In the event any public utility employer or any employees of a public utility are found to be violating or failing to comply with...
• 381-11 Penalties.
  Any public utility calling or causing a lockout in violation of section 381-9, or otherwise contrary to this chapter, or without giving the notice...
• 381-12 Employee Need Not Work Involuntarily.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without the individual employee's consent, nor shall...
• 381-13 Labor Organizations, Collective Bargaining.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair, curtail, or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join,...
• 381-14 Law As Exercise of Police Power.
  This chapter shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State for the protection of the public welfare, safety, prosperity, health,...

Last modified: October 27, 2016