Report Title:

Job Reference Liability

Description:

Proves total immunity from civil liability for job references provided by an employer about a current or former employee's job performance.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

303

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to job reference liability.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 663-1.95, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) An employer that provides to a prospective employer information or opinion about a current or former employee's job performance is presumed to be acting in good faith and shall have [a qualified] immunity from civil liability for disclosing the information and for the consequences of the disclosure."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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