§388-5.5 Payment of wages by check or electronic transfer. Whenever an employee receives the employee's wages from the employee's employer in the form of a check or electronic transfer for which insufficient amounts are available in the bank account of the employer, the employer shall be liable for any bank's special handling fee which the employee may incur by reason of negotiating the check or the electronic transfer. [L 1977, c 35, §1; gen ch 1985; am L 2014, c 208, §5]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 21. Labor and Industrial Relations
388. Wages and Other Compensation, Payment of
388-2 Semimonthly payday; method of payment of wages.
388-3 Employees who are separated from the payroll before paydays.
388-4 Payment of wages to relatives of deceased employees.
388-5 Unconditional payment of wages conceded to be due.
388-5.5 Payment of wages by check or electronic transfer.
388-5.7 Payment of wages by pay cards.
388-7 Notification, posting, and records.
388-8 Provisions of law may not be waived by agreement.
388-9.5 Order of wage payment violation; appeal.
388-12 Reciprocal agreements with other states; actions.
388-41 Advance notice of termination of employment.
388-42 Other applicable provisions.