(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 dispute other than a lockout at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which he or she was employed, regardless of whether or not the labor dispute causes any reduction or cessation of operations at the factory, establishment, or other premises of the employer, as long as the labor dispute continues, and thereafter for such reasonable period of time, if any, as may be necessary for that factory, establishment, or other premises to resume normal operation.
(b) However, this section shall not apply if it is shown that the individual is not participating in or directly interested in the labor dispute and he or she does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which, immediately before the commencement of the labor dispute, there were members employed at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the labor dispute occurs, any of whom are participating in or directly interested in the labor dispute.
(c) If in any case, separate branches of work, which are commonly conducted as separate businesses in separate premises, are conducted in separate departments of the same premises, each such department shall, for the purpose of this section, be deemed to be a separate factory, establishment, or other premises.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law
Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally
§ 11-10-502. Weekly benefit amount
§ 11-10-503. Weekly benefits for partial unemployment
§ 11-10-504. Maximum benefits payable
§ 11-10-505. Failure of base-period employer to respond
§ 11-10-506. Seasonal employment and benefit rights — Definitions
§ 11-10-507. Eligibility — Conditions — Definitions
§ 11-10-508. Eligibility — Labor dispute — Exceptions
§ 11-10-509. Eligibility — Employees of educational institutions
§ 11-10-510. Ineligibility — Service in sports or athletics
§ 11-10-511. Ineligibility — Aliens — Exception
§ 11-10-512. Disqualification — Satisfaction
§ 11-10-513. Disqualification — Voluntarily leaving work — Definitions
§ 11-10-514. Disqualification — Discharge for misconduct
§ 11-10-515. Disqualification — Failure or refusal to apply for or accept suitable work
§ 11-10-516. Disqualification — Refusal to report after layoff
§ 11-10-517. Disqualification — Receipt of other remunerations
§ 11-10-518. Disqualification — Certain workers in training program excepted
§ 11-10-519. Disqualification — Penalty for false statement or misrepresentation
§ 11-10-520. Claims — Posting of information by employer
§ 11-10-521. Claims — Filing — Notice to last employer
§ 11-10-522. Claims — Determination
§ 11-10-523. Board of Review created — Administrative appeal — Claims
§ 11-10-524. Claims — Administrative appeal — Filing and hearing
§ 11-10-525. Claims — Administrative appeal — Review by Board of Review
§ 11-10-526. Claims — Administrative appeal — Procedure
§ 11-10-527. Claims — Conclusiveness of determinations and decisions
§ 11-10-528. Claims — Administrative appeal — Rule of decision
§ 11-10-529. Claims — Decision of Board of Review — Judicial review
§ 11-10-530. Claims — Administrative appeal — Representation
§ 11-10-531. Claims — Payment of benefits
§ 11-10-532. Claims — Recovery
§ 11-10-533. Claims — Investigation of claims filed by state employees
§ 11-10-534. Extended benefits — Definitions
§ 11-10-535. Extended benefits — Effect of provisions relating to regular benefits
§ 11-10-536. Extended benefits — Eligibility
§ 11-10-537. Extended benefits — Weekly amount
§ 11-10-538. Extended benefits — Total amount
§ 11-10-539. Extended benefits — Period and computations
§ 11-10-540. Extended benefits — Financing
§ 11-10-541. Extended benefits — Overpayments
§ 11-10-542. Extended benefits — Not payable under interstate benefit payment plan — Exceptions
§ 11-10-543. Extended benefits — Failure to accept or seek suitable work — Definition
§ 11-10-544. Reciprocal arrangements with state and federal agencies