Leadership

These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? COVID-19 brought the tourism industry in Hawai‘i to a halt. Hotel occupancy took a plunge, forcing hotels to shut down. Today, about 80% of…

These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? Throughout this crisis, teachers in Hawai‘i have risen to the challenge to make sure we can still provide an education for our keiki. They’ve…

These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? We represent Kaiser Hawai‘i’s frontline nurses and respiratory therapists as their exclusive bargaining representative. Our members experienced tremendous stress concerning their personal safety related…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. The utmost important factor in returning to work was the safety of our employees and providing a CDC-compliant workplace. Upon returning to the…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. Our agency is opening our Honolulu office on July 1. Those who prefer to come into the office to work can do so,…

As Hawai‘i’s people return to offices, stores, restaurants and other shared locations, what do you think are the main health precautions we should focus on? First and foremost, act with caring and aloha for others. Health rules are devised to…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. HDS has done well with nearly 100% of our employees working remotely since March. Many of our participating dentists have started to open…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your office or other physical locations. As Gov. David Ige started to lift Hawai‘i’s stay at home restrictions in mid-May, HMSA’s first wave of employees began returning to work.…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. Over the past few months, while the state and county emergency work from home orders have been in effect, the Inkinen executive search…

What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our projects cover a wide geographic range, from Waikīkī and the Neighbor Islands to Asia. We were fortunately prepared to work remotely, but we had to fine tune those systems. Internally,…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. As of mid-June we have been able to return to normal operating hours at all of our branches on O‘ahu, Maui and the…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Starting this week, six of our 15 staff will return to the office. They will be seated a minimum of…

These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? The affiliate unions of the Hawai‘i AFL-CIO represent a broad and diverse universe of jobs in Hawai‘i. Hardest hit in our federation are employees…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. The financial events spurred by the coronavirus pandemic have put a spotlight on the importance for HawaiiUSA members to be…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. We have been assisting applicants and companies throughout the pandemic, but completely virtually. We had to remain open to help…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Employees who can productively telework will continue to do so until at least Aug. 31, possibly longer. Our walk-in payment…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Although our offices have been closed to the public, they’ve remained open throughout the crisis for a limited number of…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, warehouses or other physical locations. When the crisis began locally in March, our teams adapted quickly by implementing revised safety procedures – from temperature checks and…

HDT is an internet service provider. Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your office or other physical locations. Our office is open to our employees; however, it is their choice if they want to work…

Please describe how and when you are conducting the return to your offices or other physical locations. As essential workers, Integrated Security Technologies (IST) changed the way we did business on the first day of the “stay at home” order.…

Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. We launched Stage 1 of our re-opening on June 8. For Stage 1, we are still encouraging our staff to work from home…

What should Hawai‘i’s public health policy be for a return of tourists? While many businesses are looking forward to the phased re-opening of our local economy, introducing tourists back into Hawai‘i needs to be done carefully and with the proper…