Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 608 - Expenses and Salaries

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Contributions: means the money payments required by this chapter to be made into the state unemployment compensation fund by any employing unit on account of having individuals in its employ. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Employer: means :

  (1) Any employing unit which for some portion of a day within the current calendar year has or had in employment one or more individuals; and

  (2) For the effective period of its election pursuant to section 383-77, any other employing unit which has elected to become subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1

• employment: includes services constituting employment under any employment security law of another state or of the federal government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-61
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Referee: means the referee for unemployment compensation appeals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Week: means a period of seven consecutive calendar days commencing with Sunday and ending at midnight the following Saturday. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1