§375-1 Definitions. As used herein:

The meaning of the terms "employ", "employee", "department", "director", and "industry" is the same as defined in section 387-1.

"Appeal board" means the labor and industrial relations appeal board.

"Employer" means any person who directly or indirectly distributes or delivers or causes to be distributed or delivered to another person goods to be manufactured in or about a home and thereafter returned to him (for other than personal use by him or members of his family), or to be disposed of otherwise as directed or arranged by him, or sells or causes to be sold to another person goods to be manufactured in or about a home, and, after such manufacture, to be repurchased by him or purchased or otherwise disposed of by any other person as directed or arranged by him.

"Garment industry" means the production of men's, women's, and children's wearing apparel from any material.

"Goods" means goods, wares, products, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof.

"Industrial homework" means the manufacture of goods by any person in or about a home, apartment, tenement, or room in a residential establishment for an employer who suffers or permits such manufacture, regardless of the source (whether obtained from an employer or elsewhere) of the materials used by the homeworker in such production.

"Industrial homeworker" or "homeworker" means any employee employed or suffered or permitted to perform industrial homework for any employer.

"Manufacture" means preparing, altering, repairing, producing, wrapping, packaging, finishing, processing in whole or in part, handling in any way or working in any way with respect to articles, goods, materials, wares, products, or merchandise of any character.

"Person" means an individual, partnership, firm, association, domestic or foreign corporation, the legal representatives of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of an individual, firm, partnership, association, or domestic or foreign corporation. [L 1959, c 53, §1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §27; Supp, §96A-1; HRS §375-1]