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, and assist in the establishment and operation by municipalities, counties, planning districts, school districts, and the state of programs for public works to be used in times and places of economic downturn and high unemployment for the purpose of promoting the employment of unemployed and underemployed workers throughout the state, and to these ends, to carry on research and such investigations as he or she shall deem necessary and to publish the results thereof.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law
Subchapter 3 - Administration and Enforcement
§ 11-10-301. Division of Workforce Services — Creation — Director
§ 11-10-302. Criminal background checks
§ 11-10-303. Division of Workforce Services — Employee insurance plans
§ 11-10-304. Arkansas State Employment Service — Creation
§ 11-10-306. Director — Duties and powers generally
§ 11-10-308. Director — Administrative determinations of coverage
§ 11-10-309. Director — Publication of rules, reports, etc
§ 11-10-310. Director — Personnel
§ 11-10-311. Employment stabilization
§ 11-10-312. Federal-state cooperation
§ 11-10-313. Compensation based on multiple-state earnings
§ 11-10-314. Disclosure of information
§ 11-10-315. Authority to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc
§ 11-10-316. Refusal to obey subpoena
§ 11-10-317. Protection against self-incrimination
§ 11-10-318. Employing unit to keep and report work records
§ 11-10-319. Representation in court
§ 11-10-320. Employment Security Administration Fund — Creation
§ 11-10-321. Employment Security Administration Fund — Deposit and disbursement
§ 11-10-322. Employment Security Administration Fund — Reimbursement of the fund