Title 11 — Labor and Industrial Relations
17 chapters · 538 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-203 Benefit year
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “benefit year” with respect to any individual means the twelve-consecutive-month period beginning the first day of the calendar quarter in which he or she first files a valid claim for benefits in accordance …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-204 Contributions
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(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:(1) “Contributions” means money payments required by this chapter to be made into the Unemployment Compensation Fund by any employing unit on account of having individuals in its employ; and(2) “Payments i…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-205 Calendar quarter
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “calendar quarter” means the period of three (3) consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-206 Director
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “director” means the Director of the Division of Workforce Services.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-207 Rules
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All rules previously promulgated under this chapter shall be enforceable by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services and shall remain in full force and effect unless or until such time as amended by the director.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-208 Employing unit
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(a) (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “employing unit” means any individual, organization, or legal representative of a deceased person.(2) This term includes but is not limited to any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-209 Employer
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(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “employer” means:(1) Any individual or employing unit which, for some portion of ten (10) or more days, whether the days are or were consecutive, within the current or the preceding calendar year, has or …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-210 Employment
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(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “employment” means:(1) Service performed after December 31, 1977, including service in interstate commerce, by:(A) Any officer of a corporation; or(B) Any individual who, under the usual common law rules …
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-211 Employment office
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “employment office” means a free public employment office or branch thereof operated by this or any other state as a part of a state-controlled system of public employment offices or by a federal agency charg…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-212 Unemployment Compensation Fund
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “fund” means the Unemployment Compensation Fund established by this chapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-213 State
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “state” includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-214 Unemployment
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(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, an individual shall be deemed “unemployed” with respect to any week during which:(1) He or she performs no services;(2) No wages are payable to him or her with respect to that week, or if wages are payabl…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-215 Wages
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(a) (1) As used in this chapter, “wages” means all remuneration paid for personal services, including without limitation, commissions, bonuses, cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, the value of which shall be estimated and determined in accordance wi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-216 Week
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “week” means a seven-consecutive-calendar-day period beginning on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. and ending on Saturday at midnight.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-217 Insured work
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “insured work” means employment for employers.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-218 Rate year
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “rate year” means a twelve-month period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-219 Computation date
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “computation date” means June 30 of the preceding calendar year.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-10-220 Educational institutions
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(a) (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “institution of higher education” means an educational institution that:(A) Admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school or the recognized equivale…
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.