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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
“Employment” as defined in section 393-3 does not include:
(1) Service performed by an individual in the employ of an employer who, by the laws of the United States, is responsible for care and cost in connection with such service;
(2) Service performed by an individual in the employ of [the] individual's spouse, son, or daughter, and service performed by an individual under the age of twenty-one in the employ of the individual's father or mother;
(3) Service performed in the employ of a voluntary employee's beneficiary association providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, or other benefits to the members of the association or their dependents or their designated beneficiaries, if:
(A) Admission to membership in the association is limited to individuals who are officers or employees of the United States government; and
(B) No part of the net earnings of the association inures (other than through such payments) to the benefits of any private shareholder or individual;
(4) Service performed by an individual for an employer as an insurance agent or as an insurance solicitor if all service performed by the individual for the employer is performed for remuneration by way of commission;
(5) Service performed by an individual for an employer as a real estate salesperson or as a real estate broker if all service performed by the individual for the employer is performed for remuneration by way of commission;
(6) Service performed by an individual who, pursuant to the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, is not subject to the provisions of law relating to federal employment, including unemployment compensation;
(7) Domestic in-home and community-based services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities under the medicaid home and community-based services program pursuant to title 42 Code of Federal Regulations sections 440.180 and 441.300, and title 42 Code of Federal Regulations, part 434, subpart A, as amended, or when provided through state funded medical assistance to individuals ineligible for medicaid, and identified as chore, personal assistance and habilitation, residential habilitation, supported employment, respite, and skilled nursing services, as the terms are defined and amended from time to time by the department of human services, performed by an individual whose services are contracted by a recipient of social service payments and who voluntarily agrees in writing to be an independent contractor of the recipient of social service payments; and
(8) Domestic services, which include attendant care, and day care services authorized by the department of human services under the Social Security Act, as amended, or when provided through state-funded medical assistance to individuals ineligible for medicaid, when performed by an individual in the employ of a recipient of social service payments. For the purposes of this paragraph only, a “recipient of social service payments” is a person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care or day care services.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 1. Government § 393-5 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/hi/division-1-government/hi-rev-st-sect-393-5/
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