§ 11-14-111. Rules and regulations
(a) The Director of the Workers’ Health and Safety Division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission is authorized to adopt rules, using criteria established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Department of Transportation as guidelines, for modeling the state drug and alcohol testing program, concerning, but not limited […]
§ 11-14-112. Rating plans based on drug-free workplace program participation
The Insurance Commissioner shall approve rating plans for workers’ compensation insurance that give specific identifiable consideration in the setting of rates to employers that implement a drug-free workplace program pursuant to rules adopted by the Workers’ Health and Safety Division. The plans must take effect January 1, 2000, must be actuarially sound, and must state […]
§ 11-15-101. Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Voluntary Veterans’ Preference Employment Policy Act”.
§ 11-15-102. Definitions
As used in this section: (1) “DD 214” means a United States Department of Defense Report of Separation form or its predecessor or successor forms; (2) (A) “Local government employer” means a municipality, a county, or township of the state that has issued a resolution to implement a veterans’ preference employment policy under § 11-15-103. […]
§ 11-15-103. Voluntary veterans’ preference employment policy — Private employment — Local government employment
(a) (1) A private employer or local government employer may have a voluntary veterans’ preference employment policy. (2) The veterans’ preference employment policy: (A) Shall be in writing; (B) Shall be applied uniformly to employment decisions regarding the hiring, promotion, or retention during a reduction in force; and (C) May be modeled after § 21-3-302(d)-(g) […]
§ 11-15-104. Registry — Participating employers
The Division of Workforce Services shall maintain a registry of private employers and local government employers in Arkansas that have a voluntary veterans’ preference employment policy.
§ 11-15-105. Verification of eligibility
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Division of Workforce Services shall assist a private employer or a local government employer in determining if an applicant or employee is a veteran, spouse of a disabled veteran, or surviving spouse of a veteran.
§ 11-14-107. Testing subject to United States Department of Transportation procedures — Verification — Chain of custody procedures — Costs — Discrimination on grounds of voluntary treatment prohibited
(a) All specimen collection and testing for drugs and alcohol under this chapter shall be performed in accordance with the procedures provided for by the United States Department of Transportation rules for workplace drug and alcohol testing compiled at 49 C.F.R., Part 40. (b) A covered employer may not discharge, discipline, refuse to hire, discriminate […]
§ 11-14-108. Drug or alcohol use not handicap or disability — Drug or alcohol use cause for firing or failure to hire — Miscellaneous provisions
(a) An employee or job applicant whose drug or alcohol test result is confirmed as positive in accordance with this section shall not by virtue of the result alone be deemed to have a handicap or disability as defined under federal, state, or local handicap and disability discrimination laws. (b) A covered employer who discharges […]
§ 11-14-109. Confidentiality of records
(a) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, and drug or alcohol test results, written or otherwise, received by the covered employer through a drug or alcohol testing program are confidential communications and may not be used or received in evidence, obtained in discovery, or disclosed in any public or private proceedings except in accordance with […]