AR Labor Laws

September 15th, 2006 Posted by Jared

It wasn’t difficult to find the Arkansas (AR) labor laws on the internet. Several of them are similar in nature to many of the other states’ labor laws. You can find the AR labor laws on posters found throughout businesses in the state. These posters of the AR labor laws are required to be displayed throughout the workplace where employees have easy access to them. Many times an employer will post these around a time clock or in a break area. 

The easiest of the AR labor laws to find was the minimum wage law. The minimum wage currently is $5.15 an hour, but is scheduled to increase to $6.25 on October 1, 2006. This minimum wage law applies to all employers who have 4 or more persons working for them. There are exceptions to this law, so the minimum wage doesn’t apply to executives, farm laborers and students working in a job training program. 

There is also an overtime labor law in the state of Arkansas. A full work week consists of 40 hours, so any hours worked above that gets a higher rate of pay. At this time, Arkansas’s labor law has overtime set at one and one half times for any hours worked over 40. This overtime law does not apply to agricultural workers or for employers who have under 4 employees working for them. 

Another of the many labor laws in this state is the Equal Pay Act. It doesn’t allow employers to pay a woman less than a man for comparable work. This law doesn’t change the various pay rates because of seniority or experience, though. 

There are many other AR Labor Laws! You can find them on the many Arkansas Labor Law posters. Or you can find the Arkansas state labor law posters as well as several required federal labor law posters on one convenient Arkansas Complete Labor Law Poster. 

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