2012 Arkansas State and Federal Labor Law Poster Includes:
-Arkansas Minimum Wage
(Updated 2011)-Chemical Right To Know
-Hand washing Notice
-Workers' Compensation
-Clean Indoor Air Act
-Unemployment Insurance
-Payday Notice
-Emergency Notice
-New NLRA (National
Labor Relations Act Poster) (SEPARATE OPTION PURCHASE)-Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
(Updated 2011)
-Federal Minimum Wage
(Updated 2011)
-Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
-Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
-Employee Polygraph Protection Act
-Family and Medical Leave Act
(Updated 2011)
-OSHA - Job Safety & Health Protection
The new NLRA notice comes with a mandatory size requirement of 11” x 17”. (SEPARATE OPTION PURCHASE)Who is exempt from the NLRA Notice?Most
private employers are required to post the NLRA Poster. The law
specifically excludes public sector employees, agricultural and
domestic workers, independent contractors, workers employed by a parent
or spouse, and employees of air and rail carriers covered by the
Railway Labor Act.
For Arkansas Labor Law Quick Facts please click on
Labor Law Quick Facts.
Minimum Wage: All Arkansas employees must be paid a minimum wage of at least: $5.15 an hour effective October 1, 1997 with an allowance for gratuities not to exceed 50% of the minimum wage and $6.25 an hour effective October 1, 2006 with an allowance for gratuities not to exceed $3.62 per hour. Although the minimum wage is below the Federal Minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, Arkansas employers are required by law to follow the Federal Minimum Wage or whichever is greater.*
Overtime: Overtime compensation must be paid at the rate of one and one-half times the regular hourly rate of pay for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. This overtime provision shall not be applicable with respect to employers with less than 4 employees, or agricultural employees.*
Student Rate: Any full-time student attending any accredited institution of education within the State of Arkansas, and who is employed to work an amount not to exceed twenty (20) hours during weeks that school is in session or forty (40) hours during weeks when school is not in session, such rate of wage shall be equal to not less than eighty-five (85%) of the applicable minimum wage provided a Student Certificate of Eligibility is obtained from the Arkansas Department of Labor. Student workers subject to the 85% provision of the applicable minimum wage rate and a gratuity allowance shall not be paid less than the base wage guaranteed any other employee subject to a gratuity allowance.*
*NOT LEGAL ADVICE OR OPINION. PLEASE CONSULT LEGAL EXPERT IN YOUR LOCAL AREA.
