Title 11 — Labor and Industrial Relations
17 chapters · 538 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-221 Hospital
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “hospital” means an institution that has been licensed, certified, or approved by the Division of Health Facilities Services of the Department of Health, as a hospital.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-222 United States
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the term “United States”, when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-223 Supplemental benefit payments
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the term “supplemental benefit payments” means unemployment benefit payments made under a private unemployment compensation plan.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-224 References to gender
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Throughout this chapter, the pronoun “he” is deemed to include the masculine gender, the feminine gender, and, in the case of employers who are not persons, the neuter gender.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-225 American vessel
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“American vessel” means any vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States; and includes any vessel which is neither documented or numbered under the laws of the United States nor documented under the laws of any foreign country, if its crew is employed solely …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-226 American aircraft
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“American aircraft” means an aircraft registered under the laws of the United States.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-227 Treatment of Indian tribes
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(a) The term “employer” shall include any Indian tribe for which service in employment as defined under this chapter is performed. (b) The term “employment” shall include service performed in the employ of an Indian tribe, as defined in section 3306(u) of the Federal Unemployment…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-301 Division of Workforce Services — Creation — Director
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(a) (1) There is created a division to be known as the “Division of Workforce Services”.(2) The division shall be administered by a full-time salaried director.(3) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall report to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce. (1) …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-302 Criminal background checks
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(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall establish a criminal background investigation policy for the Division of Workforce Services. (b) (1) An employee of the Division of Workforce Services or of a contractor of the Division of Workforce Services who may be …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-303 Division of Workforce Services — Employee insurance plans
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(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services is authorized to formulate, adopt, and administer plans to provide the regular employees of the Division of Workforce Services, as an incident of their employment, with group life insurance or insurance against the payment of…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-304 Arkansas State Employment Service — Creation
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(a) The Arkansas State Employment Service is established within the Division of Workforce Services. (b) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services, in the conduct of the service, shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such numbers and in such place…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-305 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 11-10-305Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-306 Director — Duties and powers generally
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(a) It shall be the duty of the Director of the Division of Workforce Services to administer this chapter. (b) (1) The director shall have power and authority to adopt, amend, or rescind such rules, employ such persons, make such expenditures, require such reports, make such inve…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-307 Director — Rules
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(a) (1) General, special, and emergency rules may be adopted, amended, or rescinded by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services only after public hearing or opportunity to be heard thereon, on which proper notice has been given.(2) General rules shall become effective t…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-308 Director — Administrative determinations of coverage
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(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services may, upon his or her own motion or upon application of an employing unit, after notice and opportunity for hearing, make findings of fact and, on the basis thereof, determinations with respect to whether an employing unit con…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-309 Director — Publication of rules, reports, etc
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The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall make available for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, his or her general and special rules, his or her annual report to the Governor, and any other material he or she deems relevant and suitable and shall …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-310 Director — Personnel
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(a) Subject to other provisions of this chapter, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services is authorized to appoint, fix the compensation, and prescribe the duties and powers of such officers, accountants, attorneys, experts, and other persons as may be necessary in the …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-311 Employment stabilization
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(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall take all appropriate steps to reduce and prevent unemployment, to encourage and assist in the adoption of practical methods of vocational training, retraining, and vocational guidance, to investigate, recommend, advise,…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-312 Federal-state cooperation
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(a) In the administration of this chapter, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall cooperate with the United States Department of Labor to the fullest extent consistent with this chapter and may take such action, through the adoption of such appropriate rules, ad…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-313 Compensation based on multiple-state earnings
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(a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter with his or her wages and employment covered under the unemployme…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-314 Disclosure of information
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(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, information obtained by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services from any employing unit or individual pursuant to the administration of this chapter, and the methods used by the Division of Workforce Services to ide…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-315 Authority to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc
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In the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, the chair of an appeal tribunal, the members of the Board of Review, and any duly authorized representative of any of them shall have power to administer oaths and affirmat…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-316 Refusal to obey subpoena
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(a) In case of contumacy by or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, any court of this state within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transact…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-317 Protection against self-incrimination
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(a) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, the Board of Review, the chair of an appeal tribunal, or any duly authorized repre…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-318 Employing unit to keep and report work records
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(a) (1) Each employing unit shall keep true and accurate work records, for such periods of time and containing such information as the Director of the Division of Workforce Services may prescribe.(2) The records shall be open to inspection and be subject to being copied by the di…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-319 Representation in court
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(a) Civil Actions. In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, the Board of Review, and the state may be represented by any qualified attorney who is employed by the director and is designated by him or her fo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-320 Employment Security Administration Fund — Creation
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(a) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the “Employment Security Administration Fund”. (b) All money deposited or paid into the Employment Security Administration Fund shall be continuously available to the Director of the Division of Workforce Se…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-321 Employment Security Administration Fund — Deposit and disbursement
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(a) All money in the Employment Security Administration Fund shall be deposited, administered, and disbursed in the same manner and under the same conditions and requirements as are provided by law for other special funds in the State Treasury, except that money in the Employment…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-322 Employment Security Administration Fund — Reimbursement of fund
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(a) If any money in the Employment Security Administration Fund, paid to this state under Title III of the Social Security Act or the Wagner-Peyser Act, is found by the United States Secretary of Labor, because of any action or contingency, to have been lost or to have been expen…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-325 Unemployment insurance fraud — Prevention, detection, and recovery
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(a) By July 1, 2021, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall adopt and implement internal administrative policies and business processes:(1) To pursue recovery of improper overpayments of unemployment benefits to the extent permitted by state and federal law; and…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-401 Period
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Except as provided in § 11-10-403, any employing unit that is or becomes an employer subject to this chapter within any calendar year shall be subject to this chapter during the whole of the calendar year.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-402 Termination
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Except as otherwise provided in § 11-10-403, an employing unit may cease to be an employer subject to this chapter in accordance with the rules of the Director of the Division of Workforce Services.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-403 Election
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(a) (1) An employing unit, not otherwise subject to this chapter, which filed with the Director of the Division of Workforce Services its written election to become an employer subject hereto for not less than two (2) calendar years shall, with the written approval of the electio…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-404 Nonprofit employers
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(a) (1) (A) Any political subdivision of this state may elect to cover under this chapter service performed by employees in all of the hospitals and institutions of higher education, as defined in §§ 11-10-220 and 11-10-221, operated by the political subdivision.(B) Election is t…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-405 Contributions liability contingency
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If at any time any of the employments excluded in §§ 11-10-201 — 11-10-226 shall become liable for federal unemployment tax, the employments shall thereupon immediately become liable for contributions under the provisions of this chapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-501 Payment
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(a) All benefits provided in this chapter shall be payable from the Unemployment Compensation Fund. (b) All benefits shall be paid through Division of Workforce Services offices, in accordance with such rules as the Director of the Division of Workforce Services may prescribe.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-502 Weekly benefit amount
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(a) For initial claims filed on or after the first day of the calendar quarter following July 22, 2015, an insured worker's weekly benefit amount shall be an amount equal to one-twenty-sixth (¹⁄₂₆) of his or her average wages for insured work paid during the four (4) quarters of …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-503 Weekly benefits for partial unemployment
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(a) Any insured worker who is unemployed in any week as defined in § 11-10-214 and who meets the eligibility requirements of §§ 11-10-507 — 11-10-511 shall be paid, with respect to the week, an amount equal to his or her weekly benefit amount less that part of any earnings payabl…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-504 Maximum benefits payable
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(a) (1) For initial claims filed on or after January 1, 2018, the maximum potential benefits of an insured worker in a benefit year shall be the amount equal to the lesser of:(A) Sixteen (16) times his or her weekly benefit amount; or(B) One-third (⅓) of his or her wages for insu…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-505 Failure of base-period employer to respond
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(a) (1) (A) A notice to the base-period employer shall be mailed or posted online, or both, promptly to each employer appearing on the claimant's monetary determination as a base-period employer.(B) Employers may choose to receive and respond to notice under this section through …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-506 Seasonal employment and benefit rights — Definitions
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(a) (1) As used in this section, the term “seasonal industry” means an industry in which, because of the seasonal nature thereof, it is customary to lay off forty percent (40%) or more of the average monthly number of workers for at least four (4) consecutive months during a regu…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-507 Eligibility — Conditions — Definitions. [Effective until January 1, 2026.]
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(a) An insured worker shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the Director of the Division of Workforce Services finds that:(1) Claim for Benefits. He or she has made a claim for benefits with respect to such week in accordance with such rules as th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-508 Eligibility — Labor dispute — Exceptions
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(a) If so found by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, no individual may serve a waiting period or be paid benefits for the duration of any period of unemployment if he or she lost his or her employment or has left his or her employment by reason of a labor disput…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-509 Eligibility — Employees of educational institutions
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(a) With respect to service performed in an instructional, research, or principal administrative capacity as an employee of an educational institution, benefits shall not be paid based on services for any week of unemployment commencing during the period between two (2) successiv…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-510 Ineligibility — Service in sports or athletics
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Benefits shall not be paid to any individual on the basis of any services substantially all of which consist of participating in sports or athletic events or training or preparing to so participate for any week that commences during the period between two (2) successive sport sea…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-511 Ineligibility — Aliens — Exception
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(a) Benefits shall not be payable on the basis of services performed by an alien unless the alien is an individual who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time the services were performed, was lawfully present for purposes of performing those services, or was per…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-512 Disqualification — Satisfaction
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(a) “Week of Unemployment” Defined. A “week of unemployment” as used in this section and § 11-10-519 means a week during which, except for a disqualification, an individual would be eligible for benefits. (b) “Week of Disqualification” Defined. A “week of disqualification” as use…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-513 Disqualification — Voluntarily leaving work — Definitions
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(a) (1) If so found by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he or she voluntarily and without good cause connected with the work left his or her last work.(2) (A) An individual working as a temporary employee will…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-514 Disqualification — Discharge for misconduct
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(a) (1) If so found by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he or she is discharged from his or her last work for misconduct in connection with the work.(2) In cases of discharge for absenteeism, the individual sh…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-515 Disqualification — Failure or refusal to apply for or accept suitable work
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(a) (1) (A) If so found by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he or she has failed without good cause:(i) To apply for available suitable work when so directed by a Division of Workforce Services office;(ii) To …