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11-15-103. Voluntary veterans' preference employment policy — Private employment — Local government employment.
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11-15-103. Voluntary veterans' preference employment policy — Private employment — Local government employment.
(a)(1) A private employer or local government employer may have a voluntary veterans' preference employment policy.
(2) The veterans' preference employment policy:
(A) Shall be in writing;
(B) Shall be applied uniformly to employment decisions regarding the hiring, promotion, or retention during a reduction in force; and
(C) May be modeled after § 21-3-302(d)-(g) and § 21-3-303 et seq.
(b) A veteran, spouse of a disabled veteran, or surviving spouse of a veteran shall submit a DD 214 of the veteran to a private employer or local government employer with a veterans' preference employment policy to be eligible for the preference.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-15-103
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11-15-103. Voluntary veterans' preference employment policy — Private employment — Local government employment.
(a)(1) A private employer or local government employer may have a voluntary veterans' preference employment policy.
(2) The veterans' preference employment policy:
(A) Shall be in writing;
(B) Shall be applied uniformly to employment decisions regarding the hiring, promotion, or retention during a reduction in force; and
(C) May be modeled after § 21-3-302(d)-(g) and § 21-3-303 et seq.
(b) A veteran, spouse of a disabled veteran, or surviving spouse of a veteran shall submit a DD 214 of the veteran to a private employer or local government employer with a veterans' preference employment policy to be eligible for the preference.
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21-3-302. Veterans Preference Law — Definition.
(a) This section shall be entitled the “Veterans Preference Law”.
(b) For purposes of this section, “veteran” means:
(1) A person honorably discharged from a tour of active duty, other than active duty for training only, with the United States Armed Forces; or
(2) Any person who has served honorably in the National Guard or a reserve component of the United States Armed Forces for a period of at least six (6) years, whether the person has retired or been discharged or not.
(c) A state agency or institution of higher education subject to the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq., or a school district as defined under § 6-20-1903, shall provide a veterans preference in interviewing and hiring to an applicant if the applicant:
(1) Indicates on the employment application that he or she is:
(A) A veteran;
(B) A disabled veteran; or
(C) The surviving spouse of a deceased veteran who is unmarried at the time of application for employment and remains unmarried until the decision to hire is made;
(2) Is a citizen and resident of this state; and
(3) Meets substantially equal qualifications of other applicants.
(d)(1)(A) If an examination, evaluation, or similar instrument is given to establish a list of qualified candidates to be interviewed for a position at a state agency or institution of higher education subject to the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq., and an applicant entitled to a veterans preference under this section attains a passing grade, the applicant shall have five (5) points added to his or her final earned rating if the examination, evaluation, or similar instrument is subject to numerical scoring.
(B) If a veteran is not selected for
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-3-302
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21-3-303. Failure to hire veteran.
(a) If requested by the veteran applicant and in addition to the requirements under § 21-3-302(d), a hiring official or selection authority for a state agency or institution of higher education subject to the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq., shall submit in writing to the veteran the reason the veteran was not:
(1) Included on a list of qualified candidates to be interviewed; and
(2) Selected for the position.
(b) The written reason provided under this section shall become a part of the employment application records of the state agency or institution of higher education subject to the Uniform Classification and Compensation Act, § 21-5-201 et seq., or a school district as defined under § 6-20-1903, and be retained for the same period of time as all other employment applications as established by law or agency policy.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-3-303
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 21-3-303. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.