Ark. Code § 21-1-701

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 21-1-701 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:

(1)

(A) "Employee" means a person regularly appointed or employed in a position of state service by a state agency for which:

(i) He or she is compensated on a full-time basis or on a pro rata basis; and

(ii) A class title and pay grade are established in the appropriation act for the agency or institution in accordance with the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq.

(B) "Employee" does not include a supervisory employee;

(2) "Grievance" means an employee's complaint resulting from a termination or suspension;

(3)

(A) "State agency" means a board, commission, department, division, or office of state government within the executive branch.

(B) "State agency" does not include:

(i) An institution of higher education;

(ii) A public school district;

(iii) The Arkansas Department of Transportation; and

(iv) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission; and

(4) "Supervisory employee" means an individual having:

(A) Authority in the interest of a state agency to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees of the state agency; or

(B) If his or her exercise of authority requires the use of independent judgment and is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, the responsibility to direct other employees of the state agency by which he or she is employed.

Ark. Code § 21-1-701

Amended by Act 2019, No. 1054,§ 1, eff. 7/24/2019.

Amended by Act 2017, No. 707,§ 66, eff. 8/1/2017.

Added by Act 2013, No. 1448,§ 1, eff. 8/16/2013.

See Act 2013, No. 1448, § 2.