The state’s unemployment fund was in the best of shape before the pandemic and is still healthy, but politicians and community leaders are worried it will be depleted by early 2021 if the economy does not bounce back as expected. read more >
Arkansas has been awarded a $2 million, four-year U.S. Department of Labor grant to provide more information technology training throughout the state. read more >
For years Rhea Lana Riner offered her consignors the opportunity to shop her sales first in exchange for putting in a few hours helping organize and operate the sales. read more >
A painful loss in a long dispute with the federal government forced changes in Rhea Lana Riner’s consignment sale business plan — and some of them have been positive. read more >
Households in the top fifth of income spent more than five times as much as households in the bottom fifth, $18,190 compared with $3,497. read more >
The statistical reality of the the U.S. Department of Labor's overtime proposal is that Arkansas employees earn lower wages than much of the country, meaning Arkansas employers are more likely than employers in other parts of the country to feel the effects of an increase. read more >
here’s some reason for cheer, and in time for Thanksgiving. read more >
The U.S. Department of Labor says an Arkansas staffing company paid more than $708,000 to settle Fair Labor Standards Act violations — but one of the company's owners says he's not heard from the department about its investigation. read more >
The U.S. Department of Labor’s regulations that increased minimum wage and overtime coverage to home health workers has resulted in the Arkansas Support Network Inc. owing $650,000 in back wages to employees who worked overnight shifts in clients’ homes. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate in September remained steady at 3.5 percent. read more >
The University of Central Arkansas' Division of Outreach & Community Engagement, the Arkansas Coding Academy, the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services and U.S. Department of Labor recently announced the state’s first Information Technology Based Registered Apprenticeship Program at UCA. read more >
Arkansas labor and employment attorneys are keeping an eye on challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s overtime rules as well as a bill that would amend the Minimum Wage Act in Arkansas. read more >
The suspicion that one’s 401(k) plan might be costing more in fees than necessary has taken root in the American consciousness. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point, from 3.9 percent in August to 4 percent in September. read more >
There is significant circumstantial evidence that union organizing efforts in companies of all sizes are likely to rise at an alarming rate in the next year or two. read more >
A retirement plan review with experts can reduce risk and maximize benefit to employees. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained stable at 3.8 percent between May and June, according to a report Friday by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. read more >
The centerpiece of the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulations raises the threshold of what salaried workers must be paid in order to qualify as an exempt employee. read more >
Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate shows the state at 3.8 percent for May 2016, a decrease of 1.6 percent since May 2015. read more >
The U.S. Department of Labor published the final rule updating overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act. More than 50,000 employees and their employers in Arkansas will be affected. Here's how to prepare. read more >
