§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" mean any controversy concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment.

"Employee" means any person, whether or not a member of a labor organization, in the employ of a public utility and whose duties pertain or relate to the public utility service in which the public utility is engaged.

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

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

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

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

"Strike" means the temporary stoppage of work, slowdown, or retarding of production or operations by the concerted action 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

Definitions rearranged pursuant to §23G-15.

Attorney General Opinions

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