Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 21 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES (§§ 21-1-101 — 21-15-113) › Chapter 5 - COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS (§§ 21-5-101 — 21-5-1418) › Subchapter 2 - UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT (§§ 21-5-201 — 21-5-228) › Section 21-5-203 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1)
"Agency director" means the executive head of all agencies, authorities, departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, councils, or other agencies of the state;
(2)
"Class" or "classification" means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training and experience or skill, and other characteristics that the same title, the same test of fitness, and the same scale of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group;
(3)
"Class specification" means a written document which identifies a group of positions that have the same type of work and responsibility and states the general components by providing a class title, class code, distinguishing features and examples of work, knowledge, skills, and abilities, and the necessary minimum education and experience requirements to perform the assigned duties;
(4)
(A)
"Crossgrade" means a temporary reclassification of a position during the fiscal year.
(B)
(i)
The Office of Personnel Management may authorize a temporary change in the classification of a position from the classification authorized in a state agency appropriation act between legislative sessions to assure correct classification and for other purposes.
(ii)
The Office of Personnel Management shall establish the procedures for crossgrades with review by the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, the Joint Budget Committee;
(5)
"Demotion" means the change in duty assignment of an employee from a position in one classification to a position in another classification of a lower salary grade within the same pay table;
(6)
"Employee" means a person regularly appointed or employed in a position of state service by a state agency for which:
(A)
He or she is compensated on a full-time basis or on a pro rata basis; and
(B)
A class title and pay grade is established in the appropriation act for the state agency in accordance with the classification and compensation plan enacted in this subchapter;
(7)
"Entry pay level" means the minimum entrance salary rate for a grade established on a pay table;
(8)
"Grade" means an authorized pay range;
(9)
"Job sharing" means a form of employment, approved by the Office of Personnel Management, in which the hours of work of two (2) or more persons are arranged in such a way as to cover a single, regular full-time position;
(10)
"Maximum pay level" means the highest authorized level of pay for a pay grade for normal compensation administration purposes;
(11)
"Midpoint" means the rate of pay midway between the entry pay level and the maximum pay level established for each grade;
(12)
"Office of Personnel Management" means the Office of Personnel Management within the Department of Transformation and Shared Services acting under the authority granted in this subchapter and subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services;
(13)
"Pay table" means the grades and pay ranges assigned to one (1) of the General Salaries, Information Technology, Medical Professional, and Senior Executive tables;
(14)
"Position" means employment that is legislatively authorized in a state agency, occupied or vacant, requiring the services of one (1) full-time equivalent employee;
(15)
"Promotion" means the change in duty assignment of an employee from a position in one classification to a position in another classification of a higher salary grade within the same pay table;
(16)
(A)
"Reclassification" means a change in the assignment of a position from one classification title to another classification title of either a higher or lower salary grade when material and permanent changes in the duties and responsibilities of the position being recommended for reclassification have occurred or when it is necessary to establish a new classification title to meet federal standards as a prerequisite for federal programs.
(B)
The Office of Personnel Management shall establish procedures for reclassifying positions with review by the Legislative Council or, if the General Assembly is in session, the Joint Budget Committee;
(17)
"State agencies" means all agencies, authorities, departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, councils, or other agencies of the state supported by appropriation of state or federal funds, except those agencies excluded in §
21-5-204
;
(18)
"State Personnel Administrator" means the State Personnel Administrator of the Office of Personnel Management; and
(19)
"Transfer" means a change in duty assignment of an employee from one position to another position in the same classification or between pay tables.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 981,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2017, No. 365,§ 8, eff. 7/1/2017.
Acts 1969, No. 199, § 3; 1971, No. 750, § 1; 1973, No. 873, § 2; 1979, No. 828, § 1; 1981, No. 198, § 1; 1981, No. 650, § 1; 1985, No. 981, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 12-3203; Acts 1989, No. 793, § 2; 1991, No. 994, §§ 1-3; 1991, No. 1148, § 1; 1997, No. 179, § 33; 1999, No. 1019, § 1; 2001, No. 1461, §§ 1, 2; 2009, No. 688, § 4; 2011, No. 1017, § 1.