(a) Every employer specified in subsection (b) shall post and keep posted in a place readily accessible to individuals in the employer's employ a poster no smaller than eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in size that states the following:
"If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in any activity and cannot leave – whether it is commercial sex, housework, farm work, or any other similar activity – call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 to access help and services.
Victims of human trafficking are protected under United States and Hawaii law.
The hotline is:
- (1) Available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week;
- (2) Toll-free;
- (3) Operated by a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization;
- (4) Anonymous and confidential;
- (5) Accessible in one hundred seventy languages; and
- (6) Able to provide help, referral to services, training, and general information."
(b) For purposes of this section, "employer" means any person that:
- (1) Holds a class 5 or class 11 liquor license pursuant to section 281-31;
- (2) Maintains a massage therapy establishment that employs five or more people; or
- (3) Employs one or more erotic or nude massagers or exotic or nude dancers as defined in section 712-1210.
- (c) A poster required under subsection (a) shall be printed in English and the director may supplement the required information.
- (d) The department shall make available on its public website an electronic version of the poster required by subsection (a) for employers to print.
- (e) Any employer who wilfully and knowingly fails, neglects, or refuses to perform any act required by this section shall be fined not more than $100 for each separate offense. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. Any action taken to impose or collect the penalty provided for in this subsection shall be considered a civil action.
[L 2013, c 245, §1; am L 2015, c 35, §11]