Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 5 - HAWAII EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW
Subchapter 4 - COMBINING OF WAGE CREDITS
Section 12-5-99 - Definitions

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms used in sections 12-5-103 to 12-5-123 shall have the following meanings:

"Base period" means the base period applicable under the unemployment insurance law of the paying state;

"Benefit year" means the benefit year applicable under the unemployment insurance law of the paying state;

"Combined-wage claim" means a claim filed under this arrangement;

"Combined-wage claimant" means a claimant who has covered wages under the unemployment insurance laws of more than one state and who has filed a claim under this arrangement;

"Employment" means all services which are covered under the unemployment insurance law of a state, whether expressed in terms of weeks of work or otherwise;

"Paying state" means:

(1) The state in which a combined-wage claimant files a combined-wage claim, if the claimant qualifies for unemployment benefits in that state on the basis of combined employment and wages; or

(2) If the state in which a combined-wage claim is filed is not the paying state under the criterion set forth above in paragraph (1), or if the combined-wage claim is filed in Canada or the Virgin Islands, then the state where the combined-wage claimant was last employed in covered employment among the states in which the claimant qualifies for unemployment benefits on the basis of combined employment and wages;

"State" includes the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;

"State agency" means the agency which administers the unemployment insurance law of a state;

"Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor of the United States;

"Transferring state" means a state in which a combined-wage claimant has covered employment and wages in the base period of a paying state, which transfers such employment and wages to the paying state for its use in determining the benefit rights of such claimant under its law;

"Wages" means all remuneration for "employment" as defined in this section.