(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 be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. (4) The director shall report to the […]
(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 authorized by the director to access or view federal tax […]
(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 medical and hospital expenses or any similar type of insurance. (b) […]
(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 places as may be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter […]
(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 investigations, and take such other action as he or […]
(a) (1) General and special rules may be adopted, amended, or rescinded by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services only after public hearing or opportunity to be heard thereon, on which proper notice has been given.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 ten (10) days after filing with the Secretary of State and […]
(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 constitutes an employer and whether services performed for or […]
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 furnish the materials to any person […]
(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 performance of his or her duties under this chapter. (b) The […]
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 […]
(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 the provisions of this chapter and shall take such action, through the adoption of such appropriate rules, administrative methods, and standards as may be necessary […]
(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 unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved by the United […]
(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 any determination as to the rights or status of any employer or individual made by the director pursuant to the administration […]
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 affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and […]
(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 transacts business, upon application […]
(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 representative of any of them or in obedience to the subpoena of […]
(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 director or his or her authorized representatives […]
(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 for this purpose or at the […]
(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 Services for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of this chapter […]
(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 Security Administration Fund shall not be commingled with other state […]
