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AR Code § 11-10-540 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally|§ 11-10-540. Extended benefits — Financing

 (a)  (1)  (A) There is imposed an additional tax on every employer as defined in § 11-10-209 except an employer electing reimbursement under § 11-10-713 or an employer required to reimburse under § 11-10-404 of one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) on taxable wages to defray the cost of extended benefits.  (B) This extended benefit tax shall not be credited to the separate account of an employer but shall be paid into the Unemployment Compensation Fund Extended Benefits Account.    (2)  (A) The payment of this tax shall be suspended for any rate year when the assets in this account, excluding any extended benefit taxes not yet paid, on the computation date are more than two-tenths of one percent (0.2%) of total payrolls for employment during the preceding calendar year.  (B) “Total payrolls”, for the purposes of this section, shall exclude payrolls of employers who have elected to reimburse the fund in lieu of contributions under § 11-10-404 or § 11-10-713.  (C)  (i) For the purposes of this section, the “assets in this account” as of the computation date shall include only extended benefit tax payments which were paid on or before June 30, the computation date.  (ii) It shall include any accounts receivable from the United States for its share of extended benefit payments that have been paid from the fund and any accounts receivable from nonprofit employers who have elected to reimburse the fund for benefits paid.        (b) Extended benefits paid to an eligible individual shall not be charged to the separate account of each employer in the base period but shall be charged against the account.
AR Code § 11-10-541 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally|§ 11-10-541. Extended benefits — Overpayments

 The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall establish and recover extended benefit overpayments in the manner prescribed in § 11-10-532.
AR Code § 11-10-542 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally|§ 11-10-542. Extended benefits — Not payable under interstate benefit payment plan — Exceptions

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an individual shall not be eligible for extended benefits for any week if:  (1) Extended benefits are payable for that week pursuant to an interstate claim filed in any state under the interstate benefit payment plan; and  (2) No extended benefit period is in effect for that week in that state.    (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply with respect to the first two (2) weeks for which extended benefits are payable, determined without regard to this section pursuant to an interstate claim filed under the interstate benefit payment plan to the individual from the Unemployment Compensation Fund Extended Benefits Account established for the individual with respect to the benefit year.
AR Code § 11-10-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-601. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply:   (1)  (A) “Affected group” means two (2) or more employees designated by an employer to participate in a shared work plan.  (B) “Sub-group” means a group of employees which constitutes at least ten percent (10%) of the employees in an affected group;    (2) “Approved plan” means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced, which plan meets the requirements of § 11-10-604, and which plan has been approved in writing by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services;  (3) “Fringe benefits” includes, but is not limited to, such advantages as health insurance (hospital, medical, and dental services, etc.), retirement benefits under defined benefit pension plans as defined in section 3(35) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, paid vacation and holidays, sick leave, etc., which are incidents of employment in addition to the cash remuneration earned;  (4) “Normal weekly hours of work” means the normal hours of work for full-time and permanent part-time employees in the affected group when their employing unit is operating on its normal, full-time basis, not to exceed forty (40) hours and not including overtime;  (5) “Shared work benefits” means the unemployment compensation benefits payable to employees in an affected group under an approved plan as distinguished from the unemployment benefits otherwise payable under other provisions of this chapter;  (6) “Shared work employer” means an employer with a shared work plan in effect. An individual who, or an employing unit which, succeeds to or acquires, pursuant to § 11-10-710, an organization, trade, or business with a shared work plan in effect automatically becomes a shared work employer and adopts the plan if the individual or employing unit ratifies, in writing, the previously approved plan; and  (7) “Unemployment compensation” means the unemployment benefits payable under this chapter other than shared work benefits and includes any amounts payable pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment.
AR Code § 11-10-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-602. Applicability

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, provisions of this chapter that are applicable to unemployment compensation claimants shall apply to shared work unemployment compensation claimants.  (b) An individual who files an initial claim for shared work unemployment compensation benefits shall be provided, if eligible therefor, a monetary determination of entitlement to shared work unemployment compensation benefits and shall serve a waiting week.
AR Code § 11-10-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-603. Construction

 Nothing in this subchapter shall preclude an otherwise eligible claimant from drawing total or partial unemployment benefits when he or she has exhausted his or her shared work benefits.
AR Code § 11-10-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-605. Approval or rejection

 (a) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall approve or reject a plan in writing within thirty (30) days of its receipt.  (b) Only one (1) plan may be approved for any one (1) employer during any twelve-month period.  (c) The reason for rejection shall be final and non-appealable, but the employer shall be allowed to submit another plan for approval not earlier than fifteen (15) days from the date of the last rejection.
AR Code § 11-10-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-606. Effective date and duration of plan

 (a) A plan shall be effective on the date specified in the plan or on a date mutually agreed upon by the employer and the Director of the Division of Workforce Services but no earlier than the date of approval of the plan by the director.  (b)  (1) It shall expire at the end of the twelfth full calendar month after its effective date or on the date specified in the plan if the date is earlier, provided that the plan is not previously revoked by the director.  (2) If a plan is revoked by the director, it shall terminate on the date specified in the director's written order of revocation.
AR Code § 11-10-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-607. Revocation of approval

 (a)  (1) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services may revoke approval of a plan for good cause.  (2) The revocation order shall be in writing and shall specify the date the revocation is effective and the reasons therefor.  (3) Good cause shall include, but not be limited to, failure to comply with the assurances given in the plan, unreasonable revision of productivity standards for the affected group, conduct or occurrences tending to defeat the intent and effective operation of the plan, and violation of any criteria on which approval of the plan was based.    (b) The action may be taken at any time by the director on his or her own motion, on the motion of any of the affected group's employees, or on the motion of the appropriate collective bargaining agent.  (c) However, the director shall review the operation of each qualified employer plan at least once during the twelve-month period that the plan is in effect to assure its compliance with the requirements of these provisions.  (d) Revocation of a plan for good cause by the director shall preclude approval of any subsequent plan submitted by the revoked plan employer during the twelve-month period beginning on the date of the revocation order.
AR Code § 11-10-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-608. Modification of an approved plan

 (a) An operational, approved, shared work plan may be modified by the employer with the acquiescence of employee representatives if the modification is not substantial and is in conformity with the plan approved by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, but the modifications must be reported promptly to the director.  (b)  (1) If the hours of work are increased or decreased substantially beyond the level in the original plan or if any other conditions are changed substantially, the director shall approve or disapprove the modifications without changing the expiration date of the original plan.  (2) If the substantial modifications do not meet the requirements for approval, the director shall disallow that portion of the plan in writing as specified in § 11-10-607.
AR Code § 11-10-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-609. Eligibility for compensation

 (a) An individual is eligible to receive shared work unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if, in addition to monetary entitlement, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services finds that:  (1) During the week, the individual is employed as a member of an affected group under an approved shared work compensation plan that was approved before that week, and the plan is in effect with respect to the week for which the benefits are claimed;  (2)  (A) During the week, the individual is able to work and is available for the normal work week with the shared work employer.  (B) However, an otherwise eligible individual shall not be denied benefits with respect to any week in which he or she is in training to enhance job skills, including employer-sponsored training and worker training funded under the Arkansas Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, § 15-4-3701 et seq., if the training has been approved by the director.      (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, an individual is deemed unemployed in any week for which remuneration is payable to him or her as an employee in an affected group for ninety percent (90%) or less than his or her normal weekly hours of work as specified under the approved shared work compensation plan in effect for the week.  (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, an individual shall not be denied shared work unemployment compensation benefits for any week by reason of the application of provisions relating to availability for work and active search for work with an employer other than the shared work unemployment compensation employer.
AR Code § 11-10-610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-610. Amount of benefits — Filing of claims

 (a) The shared work unemployment compensation weekly benefit amount shall be the product of the regular weekly unemployment compensation amount multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least ten percent (10%) in the individual's usual weekly hours of work.  (b) An individual may be eligible for shared work unemployment compensation benefits or unemployment compensation, as appropriate, except that no individual shall be eligible for combined benefits in any benefit year in an amount more than the maximum entitlement established for unemployment compensation, nor shall an individual be paid shared work unemployment compensation benefits for more than twenty-five (25) weeks, whether or not consecutive, in any benefit year pursuant to a shared work plan.  (c) The shared work unemployment compensation benefits paid an individual shall be deducted from the maximum entitlement amount established for that individual's benefit year.  (d) Claims for shared work unemployment compensation benefits shall be filed in the same manner as claims for unemployment compensation or as prescribed in rules by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services.
AR Code § 11-10-611 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-611. Entitlement to benefits under certain conditions

 (a) If an individual works in the same week for an employer other than the shared work employer, and his or her combined hours of work for both employers are greater than ninety percent (90%) of the normal hours of work with the shared work employer, he or she shall not be entitled to benefits under these shared work provisions or the unemployment compensation provisions.  (b)  (1) If an individual works in the same week for both the shared work employer and another employer and his or her combined hours of work for both employers are equal to or less than ninety percent (90%) of the usual hours of work for the shared work employer, the benefit amount payable for that week shall be the weekly unemployment compensation amount reduced by the same percentage that the combined hours are of the usual hours of work.  (2) A week for which benefits are paid under this subsection shall count as a week of shared work unemployment compensation.    (c) If an individual, with the approval of the employer, did not work during any portion of the workweek, other than the reduced portion covered by the shared work plan, he or she shall not be disqualified for the absence or deemed ineligible for shared work unemployment benefits for that reason alone.  (d)  (1) An individual who performs no services during a week for the shared work employer and is otherwise eligible shall be paid the full weekly unemployment compensation amount.  (2) Such a week shall not be counted as a week with respect to which shared work unemployment compensation was received.    (e)  (1) An individual who does not work for the shared work employer during a week, but works for another employer and is otherwise eligible, shall be paid benefits for that week under the partial unemployment compensation provisions of this chapter.  (2) Such a week shall not be counted as a week with respect to which shared work unemployment compensation was received.
AR Code § 11-10-612 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-612. Charging shared-work unemployment compensation

 (a) Shared work unemployment compensation shall be charged to the employer's experience rating accounts in the same manner as unemployment compensation is charged under this chapter.  (b) Employers liable for payments in lieu of contributions shall have shared work unemployment compensation attributed to service in their employ in the same manner as unemployment compensation is attributed.
AR Code § 11-10-613 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 6 - Shared Work Plans|§ 11-10-613. Extended benefits

 An individual who has received all of the combined unemployment compensation and shared work unemployment compensation available in a benefit year shall be considered an exhaustee for purposes of extended benefits, as provided under the provisions of §§ 11-10-534 — 11-10-543, and, if otherwise eligible under those provisions, shall be eligible to receive extended benefits.
AR Code § 11-10-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-701. Accrual and payment by employer

 (a)  (1) Contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which the employer is subject to this chapter with respect to wages for employment.  (2) The contributions shall become due and be paid by each employer to the Director of the Division of Workforce Services for the Unemployment Compensation Fund in accordance with such rules as the director may prescribe and shall not be deducted, in whole or in part, from the wages of individuals in employment for the employer.    (b) In the payment of any contributions, a fractional part of a cent shall be disregarded unless it amounts to one-half cent (½¢) or more, in which case it shall be increased by one cent (1¢).(c)(1) Determinations of liability are conclusive and binding unless within thirty (30) calendar days after the mailing date of the determination the employer requests an administrative determination of coverage under § 11-10-308.     (2)  However, if the director determines that the request for an administrative determination of coverage is not perfected within the thirty-calendar-day period as a result of circumstances beyond the employer's control, the director may consider the request as having been filed timely.
AR Code § 11-10-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-702. Rate of contributions

 Each employer shall pay contributions equal to two and nine-tenths percent (2.9%) of wages paid by the employer with respect to employment, except as may otherwise be prescribed in § 11-10-703.
AR Code § 11-10-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-709. Wages and employment

 (a) For the purposes of §§ 11-10-701 and 11-10-702, wages shall not include that part of remuneration paid to an individual by an employer or the employer's predecessor with respect to the employment during any calendar year which exceeds that part of remuneration paid specified in § 11-10-215(a)(1), unless that part of the remuneration is subject to a tax under a federal law imposing a tax against which credit may be taken for contributions required to be paid into a state unemployment fund.  (b) For the purposes of this section, the term “employment” shall include service constituting employment under any unemployment compensation law of another state.
AR Code § 11-10-711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-711. Temporary closing of business because of absence in armed forces

 (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this chapter, if the Director of the Division of Workforce Services finds that an employer's business was closed solely because of the entrance of one (1) or more of the owners, officers, partners, or the majority stockholder into the armed forces of the United States or any of its allies, or of the United Nations, or into state active duty with the Arkansas National Guard, the employer's account shall, for experience rating purposes, not be considered as terminated. If the business is resumed by the employer within one (1) year after the discharge or release of the person from active duty in the armed forces or from state active duty with the Arkansas National Guard, the employer's experience shall be deemed to have been continuous through the closed period.  (b) The employer's reserve ratio after returning from military duty shall be the ratio of the employer's reserve, including regular benefits paid to any individual during the period the employer was in the armed forces, to the average of the employer's annual payrolls for the three (3) or five (5) most recent calendar years for which the employer has reported taxable wages, whichever average is the lesser.  (c) However, successorship provisions shall apply to this account only if the business has been resumed by the employer.
AR Code § 11-10-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-712. Employer ceasing to pay wages

 (a) Whenever an employer has paid no wages for a period of twelve (12) consecutive calendar quarters following the latest calendar quarter that the employer paid wages in employment, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall terminate the employer's experience rating account and shall destroy the records of the account.  (b) In the event an employer subsequently becomes subject to this chapter after the employer's experience rating account has been so terminated, the employer must again meet the requirements of §§ 11-10-703 — 11-10-708.
AR Code § 11-10-714 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 7 - Contributions|§ 11-10-714. Exception — Reimbursable payments

 Notwithstanding any provisions in § 11-10-713, any nonprofit organization, state hospital, state institution of higher education, or group of such employers that, prior to January 1, 1969, paid contributions required by § 11-10-701, and, pursuant to § 11-10-713, elected by March 5, 1971, to make payments in lieu of contributions, shall not be required to make any payment on account of any regular or extended benefits paid, on the basis of wages paid by such nonprofit organization, state hospital, state institution of higher education, or group of such employers to individuals for weeks of unemployment that begin on or after the effective date of the election until the total amount of the benefits equals the amount of the positive balance in the experience rating account of the nonprofit organization, state hospital, state institution of higher education, or group of such employers.