Hawaii Discrimination, Dislocated Workers Posters Revised

Protected Categories, Reason for Plant Closings Added to Two HI Labor Law Posters

Jan. 27, 2012

Hawaii's Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination poster has been revised to include a number of new protected categories that cannot be used as a basis for discrimination in the workplace.

The mandatory poster issued by the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations now includes five new categories for which a person cannot be denied a job, fired or subjected to unequal terms and conditions of employment.

The new protected categories are gender identity or expression, civil union status, credit history, credit report and domestic or sexual violence victim status.

Hawaii has also revised its required Notice to Dislocated Workers/Plant Closings poster to include bankruptcy as one of the business transactions covered by the state's Dislocated Workers Act.

Under that law, workers have the right to be notified in writing at least 60 days in advance of possible layoffs or terminations due to certain business transactions taken by their employer.

New Posters Available

Revised Employment Discrimination and Dislocated Workers/Plant Closings posters are included in a Hawaii labor law poster published by Poster Compliance Center. The poster meets all of the state's labor law posting requirements for general employers.