HRS §78-17
Getting your final paycheck when you leave a public job
If you work for the state or county and are fired or let go, you must be paid all wages you have earned as soon as your department head approves the payment. This applies no matter why you left.
employees
The statute, as written — Payment of salaries or wages upon discharge from service
Whenever in any case, and for whatever cause, the employment of any officer, agent, employee, or other person in the public service is discharged, the discharged person shall be paid immediately upon the approval of the head of the department in which the person was engaged whatever salary or wages that are due the person.
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