Arkansas Code
Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law

§ 11-10-107. Protection of rights and benefits — Waiver of rights void — Discrimination, obstruction, and employee payment prohibited - (a) Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or...

§ 11-10-108. Protection of rights and benefits — Limitation of fees - (a) No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees or...

§ 11-10-109. Protection of rights and benefits — Assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of benefits prohibited - (a) Except as elsewhere provided in this section and §...

§ 11-10-110. Protection of rights and benefits — Exception for withholding child support — Definitions - (a) At the time of filing the claim, an individual...

§ 11-10-111. Protection of rights and benefits — Exception for withholding food stamp overages — Definition - (a) (1) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment...

Subchapter 2 - Definitions

§ 11-10-201. Base period - (a) (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context...

§ 11-10-202. Regular benefits - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-203. Benefit year - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-204. Contributions - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-205. Calendar quarter - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-206. Director - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-207. Rules - All rules previously promulgated under this chapter shall be enforceable...

§ 11-10-208. Employing unit - (a) (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context...

§ 11-10-209. Employer - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-210. Employment - (a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly...

§ 11-10-211. Employment office - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-212. Unemployment Compensation Fund - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-213. State - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-214. Unemployment - (a) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly...

§ 11-10-215. Wages - (a) (1) As used in this chapter, “wages” means all...

§ 11-10-216. Week - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-217. Insured work - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-218. Rate year - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-219. Computation date - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-220. Educational institutions - (a) (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context...

§ 11-10-221. Hospital - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-222. United States - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-223. Supplemental benefit payments - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 11-10-224. References to gender - Throughout this chapter, the pronoun “he” is deemed to include...

§ 11-10-225. American vessel - American vessel” means any vessel documented or numbered under the...

§ 11-10-226. American aircraft - American aircraft” means an aircraft registered under the laws of...

§ 11-10-227. Treatment of Indian tribes - (a) The term “employer” shall include any Indian tribe for...

Subchapter 3 - Administration and Enforcement

§ 11-10-301. Division of Workforce Services — Creation — Director - (a) (1) There is created a division to be known...

§ 11-10-302. Criminal background checks - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall...

§ 11-10-303. Division of Workforce Services — Employee insurance plans - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services is...

§ 11-10-304. Arkansas State Employment Service — Creation - (a) The Arkansas State Employment Service is established within the...

§ 11-10-306. Director — Duties and powers generally - (a) It shall be the duty of the Director of...

§ 11-10-307. Director — Rules - (a) (1) General and special rules may be adopted, amended,...

§ 11-10-308. Director — Administrative determinations of coverage - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services may,...

§ 11-10-309. Director — Publication of rules, reports, etc - The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall make...

§ 11-10-310. Director — Personnel - (a) Subject to other provisions of this chapter, the Director...

§ 11-10-311. Employment stabilization - The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall take...

§ 11-10-312. Federal-state cooperation - (a) In the administration of this chapter, the Director of...

§ 11-10-313. Compensation based on multiple-state earnings - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall...

§ 11-10-314. Disclosure of information - (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, information...

§ 11-10-315. Authority to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc - In the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter,...

§ 11-10-316. Refusal to obey subpoena - (a) In case of contumacy by or refusal to obey...

§ 11-10-317. Protection against self-incrimination - (a) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying...

§ 11-10-318. Employing unit to keep and report work records - (a) (1) Each employing unit shall keep true and accurate...

§ 11-10-319. Representation in court - (a) Civil Actions. In any civil action to enforce the...

§ 11-10-320. Employment Security Administration Fund — Creation - (a) There is created in the State Treasury a special...

§ 11-10-321. Employment Security Administration Fund — Deposit and disbursement - (a) All money in the Employment Security Administration Fund shall...

§ 11-10-322. Employment Security Administration Fund — Reimbursement of the fund - (a) If any money in the Employment Security Administration Fund,...

Subchapter 4 - Employer Coverage

§ 11-10-401. Period - Except as provided in § 11-10-403, any employing unit that...

§ 11-10-402. Termination - Except as otherwise provided in § 11-10-403, an employing unit...

§ 11-10-403. Election - (a) (1) An employing unit, not otherwise subject to this...

§ 11-10-404. Nonprofit employers - (a) (1) (A) Any political subdivision of this state may...

§ 11-10-405. Contributions liability contingency - If at any time any of the employments excluded in...

Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally

§ 11-10-501. Payment - (a) All benefits provided in this chapter shall be payable...

§ 11-10-502. Weekly benefit amount - (a) For initial claims filed on or after the first...

§ 11-10-503. Weekly benefits for partial unemployment - (a) Any insured worker who is unemployed in any week...

§ 11-10-504. Maximum benefits payable - (a) For initial claims filed on or after January 1,...

§ 11-10-505. Failure of base-period employer to respond - (a) (1) (A) A notice to the base-period employer shall...

§ 11-10-506. Seasonal employment and benefit rights — Definitions - (a) (1) As used in this section, the term “seasonal...

§ 11-10-507. Eligibility — Conditions — Definitions - An insured worker shall be eligible to receive benefits with...

§ 11-10-508. Eligibility — Labor dispute — Exceptions - (a) If so found by the Director of the Division...

§ 11-10-509. Eligibility — Employees of educational institutions - (a) With respect to service performed in an instructional, research,...

§ 11-10-510. Ineligibility — Service in sports or athletics - Benefits shall not be paid to any individual on the...

§ 11-10-511. Ineligibility — Aliens — Exception - (a) Benefits shall not be payable on the basis of...

§ 11-10-512. Disqualification — Satisfaction - (a) “Week of Unemployment” Defined. A “week of unemployment” as...

§ 11-10-513. Disqualification — Voluntarily leaving work — Definitions - (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the...

§ 11-10-514. Disqualification — Discharge for misconduct - (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the...

§ 11-10-515. Disqualification — Failure or refusal to apply for or accept suitable work - (a) (1) (A) If so found by the Director of...

§ 11-10-516. Disqualification — Refusal to report after layoff - (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the...

§ 11-10-517. Disqualification — Receipt of other remunerations - If so found by the Director of the Division of...

§ 11-10-518. Disqualification — Certain workers in training program excepted - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an adversely...

§ 11-10-519. Disqualification — Penalty for false statement or misrepresentation - (a) If so found by the Director of the Division...

§ 11-10-520. Claims — Posting of information by employer - (a) Each employer shall post and maintain, in places readily...

§ 11-10-521. Claims — Filing — Notice to last employer - (a) Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with...

§ 11-10-522. Claims — Determination - (a) In General. (1) (A) A monetary determination upon a...

§ 11-10-523. Board of Review created — Administrative appeal — Claims - (a) (1) There is created a Board of Review which...

§ 11-10-524. Claims — Administrative appeal — Filing and hearing - (a) (1) The claimant, the Director of the Division of...

§ 11-10-525. Claims — Administrative appeal — Review by Board of Review - (a) An appeal filed by any party shall be allowed...

§ 11-10-526. Claims — Administrative appeal — Procedure - (a) (1) The Board of Review, appeal tribunal, and special...

§ 11-10-527. Claims — Conclusiveness of determinations and decisions - (a) Except insofar as reconsideration of any determination is had...

§ 11-10-528. Claims — Administrative appeal — Rule of decision - (a) The final decisions of the Board of Review or...

§ 11-10-529. Claims — Decision of Board of Review — Judicial review - (a) (1) (A) Any party entitled to a decision of...

§ 11-10-530. Claims — Administrative appeal — Representation - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall...

§ 11-10-531. Claims — Payment of benefits - (a) Benefits shall be paid promptly in accordance with an...

§ 11-10-532. Claims — Recovery - (a) (1) If the Director of the Division of Workforce...

§ 11-10-533. Claims — Investigation of claims filed by state employees - (a) The Division of Workforce Services shall investigate all claims...

§ 11-10-534. Extended benefits — Definitions - As used in this section and §§ 11-10-535 — 11-10-543,...

§ 11-10-535. Extended benefits — Effect of provisions relating to regular benefits - Except when the result would be inconsistent with the other...

§ 11-10-536. Extended benefits — Eligibility - An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with...

§ 11-10-537. Extended benefits — Weekly amount - The weekly extended benefit amount payable to an individual for...

§ 11-10-538. Extended benefits — Total amount - (a) The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible...

§ 11-10-539. Extended benefits — Period and computations - (a) Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective...

§ 11-10-540. Extended benefits — Financing - (a) (1) (A) There is imposed an additional tax on...

§ 11-10-541. Extended benefits — Overpayments - The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall establish...

§ 11-10-542. Extended benefits — Not payable under interstate benefit payment plan — Exceptions - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

§ 11-10-543. Extended benefits — Failure to accept or seek suitable work — Definition - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 11-10-535, an individual shall...

§ 11-10-544. Reciprocal arrangements with state and federal agencies - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services is...

Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans

§ 11-10-601. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...

§ 11-10-602. Applicability - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, provisions of...

§ 11-10-603. Construction - Nothing in this subchapter shall preclude an otherwise eligible claimant...

§ 11-10-604. Criteria for approval - (a) An employer wishing to participate in a shared work...

§ 11-10-605. Approval or rejection - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall...

§ 11-10-606. Effective date and duration of plan - (a) A plan shall be effective on the date specified...

§ 11-10-607. Revocation of approval - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services...

§ 11-10-608. Modification of an approved plan - (a) An operational, approved, shared work plan may be modified...

§ 11-10-609. Eligibility for compensation - (a) An individual is eligible to receive shared work unemployment...

§ 11-10-610. Amount of benefits — Filing of claims - (a) The shared work unemployment compensation weekly benefit amount shall...

§ 11-10-611. Entitlement to benefits under certain conditions - (a) If an individual works in the same week for...

§ 11-10-612. Charging shared-work unemployment compensation - (a) Shared work unemployment compensation shall be charged to the...

§ 11-10-613. Extended benefits - An individual who has received all of the combined unemployment...

Subchapter 7 - Contributions

§ 11-10-701. Accrual and payment by employer - (a) (1) Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each...

§ 11-10-702. Rate of contributions - Each employer shall pay contributions equal to two and nine-tenths...

§ 11-10-703. Future rates — Maintenance of separate accounts - (a) (1) (A) The Director of the Division of Workforce...

§ 11-10-704. Future rates — Experience rates generally - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall,...

§ 11-10-705. Future rates — Computation of contribution rates - (a) (1) Each employer's contribution rate beginning January 1 for...

§ 11-10-706. Future rates — Stabilization tax - (a) (1) Each employer shall be required to pay a...

§ 11-10-707. Future rates — Definitions — Notifications - (a) (1) As used in §§ 11-10-701 — 11-10-715: (A)...

§ 11-10-708. Future rates — Advance interest tax - (a) (1) (A) In addition to the contributions and any...

§ 11-10-709. Wages and employment - (a) For the purposes of §§ 11-10-701 and 11-10-702, wages...

§ 11-10-710. Transfer of experience - (a) (1) Unless otherwise provided in § 11-10-723, any employing...

§ 11-10-711. Temporary closing of business because of absence in armed forces - (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this chapter, if the...

§ 11-10-712. Employer ceasing to pay wages - (a) Whenever an employer has paid no wages for a...

§ 11-10-713. Employees of nonprofit organizations and governmental entities — Definitions - (a) Benefits paid to individuals based on wages paid by...

§ 11-10-714. Exception — Reimbursable payments - Notwithstanding any provisions in § 11-10-713, any nonprofit organization, state...

§ 11-10-715. Employers' nonliability - (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, no employer...

§ 11-10-716. Collection — Interest on past due contributions - (a) (1) If contributions are not paid on the date...

§ 11-10-717. Collection — Failure to pay or report — Penalty — Definition - (a) (1) (A) If, after due notice, any employer defaults...

§ 11-10-718. Collection — Priorities under legal dissolutions or distributions — Release of liens - (a) (1) In the event of any distribution of an...

§ 11-10-719. Collection — Refunds - (a) (1) If not later than three (3) years after...

§ 11-10-720. Collection — Certificate of assessment - (a) (1) If any person, firm, or corporation shall become...

§ 11-10-721. Collection — Limitation of assessment - (a) All contributions due under this chapter shall be assessed...

§ 11-10-722. Collection — Impoundment - (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services or...

§ 11-10-723. Special rules regarding transfers of experience and assignment of rates — Definitions - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following shall...

Subchapter 8 - Unemployment Compensation Fund

§ 11-10-801. Establishment and control - (a) There is established as a special fund, separate and...

§ 11-10-802. Accounts and deposit - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services...

§ 11-10-803. Withdrawals - (a) (1) Money requisitioned from this state's account in the...

§ 11-10-804. Federal Unemployment Trust Fund — Termination - (a) The provisions of this subchapter, to the extent that...

Subchapter 9 - Division of State New Hire Registry

§ 11-10-901. Creation — Administrator — Authority - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services...

§ 11-10-902. Reporting requirements — Enforcement of child support obligations — Confidentiality — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Administrator” means the...

Subchapter 10 - Unemployment Trust Fund Financing Act of 2011

§ 11-10-1001. Title - This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Unemployment...

§ 11-10-1002. Legislative findings and intent - The General Assembly finds that: (1) With a recession or...

§ 11-10-1003. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Authority” means the Arkansas...

§ 11-10-1004. Authorization — Purposes - (a) The Arkansas Development Finance Authority is authorized, subject to...

§ 11-10-1005. Governor’s proclamation - (a) The Arkansas Development Finance Authority shall prepare and distribute...

§ 11-10-1006. Election - (a) (1) Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds shall not be...

§ 11-10-1007. Procedure for issuing Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds - (a) Prior to the issuance of Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund...

§ 11-10-1008. Terms of bonds - The Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds are subject to the...

§ 11-10-1009. Sale of bonds - (a) The Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds may be sold...

§ 11-10-1010. Employment of professionals - Under § 15-5-212, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority may employ...

§ 11-10-1011. Sources of repayment - (a) The Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds shall be payable...

§ 11-10-1012. Investment of proceeds - (a) Proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be...

§ 11-10-1013. Refunding bonds - (a) The Arkansas Development Finance Authority may issue the Arkansas...

§ 11-10-1014. Liability - Officers, officials, employees, and members of the Board of Directors...

§ 11-10-1015. Tax exemption - (a) All Arkansas Unemployment Trust Fund Bonds issued under this...

§ 11-10-1016. Bonds — Rights and liabilities — Enforcement - (a) (1) This subchapter shall constitute a contract between the...

§ 11-10-1017. Unemployment obligation assessment - (a) (1) (A) Except employers that have made an election...

§ 11-10-1018. Division of Workforce Services — Bond Financing Trust Fund - (a) (1) There is established on the books of the...

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Arkansas Code Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law

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Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law