Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 684.1 - FOOD STAMP WORK REQUIREMENTS
Subchapter 4 - VOLUNTARY QUIT AND REDUCTION OF WORK EFFORT
Section 17-684.1-48 - Unsuitable employment
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-684.1-48
Current through August, 2024
(a) Employment shall be considered suitable unless:
(1) The
wage offered is less than the highest of:
(A)
The applicable federal minimum wage;
(B) The applicable state minimum
wage;
(C) Eighty per cent of the
federal minimum wage, if neither the federal nor the state minimum wage is
applicable;
(2) The
employment offered is on a piece-rate basis and the average hourly yield the
employee may reasonably be expected to earn is less than the applicable hourly
wage specified above;
(3) As a
condition of employment or continuing employment, the employee is required to
join, resign from, or refrain from joining any legitimate labor
organization;
(4) The work offered
is at a site subject to a strike or a lockout at the time of the offer unless
the strike has been enjoined under section 208 of the Labor-Management
Relations Act,
29 U.S.C.
§178, or an injunction has been issued
under section 10 of the Railway Labor Act,
45 U.S.C.
§160;
(5) The household member involved can
demonstrate, or the department otherwise becomes aware that:
(A) The degree of risk to health and safety
is unreasonable;
(B) The household
member is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as documented
by medical evidence or by reliable information from other sources;
(C) The employment offered within the first
thirty days of registration is not in the household member's major field of
experience;
(D) The distance from
the registrant's home to the place of employment is unreasonable based on the
expected wage and the time and cost of commuting. Daily commuting time shall
not exceed two hours per day, not including the transportation of a child to
and from a child care facility. Nor shall employment be considered suitable if
the distance to the place of employment prohibits walking, and both public and
private transportation are unavailable to use in getting to the job site;
or
(E) The working hours or nature
of the employment interferes with the household member's religious observances,
convictions, or beliefs.
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