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21-4-105. Leave of absence for reexamination or treatment of service-connected disability.
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21-4-105. Leave of absence for reexamination or treatment of service-connected disability.
(a) All employees of the State of Arkansas, as defined in § 21-4-203, who have been rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor to have incurred a military service-connected disability and have been scheduled by the department to be reexamined or treated for the disability shall be entitled to a leave of absence with pay for a period not to exceed six (6) days for that purpose during any one (1) calendar year.
(b)(1) If an employee receives a leave of absence under this section, the employee shall be entitled to his or her regular salary during the time the employee is away from his or her duties during the leave of absence.
(2) The leave of absence shall be in addition to the regular annual leave and sick leave allowed to the employee.
(c) During a leave of absence, the employee shall be entitled to preserve:
(1) All seniority rights, efficiency or performance ratings, promotional status, retirement privileges, and life and disability insurance benefits; and
(2) Any other rights, privileges, and benefits to which he or she has become entitled.
(d) For purposes of computations to determine whether the employee may be entitled to retirement benefits, the period of the leave of absence shall be deemed continuous service.
(e) The state shall continue to contribute its portion of any life or disability insurance premiums during the leave of absence on behalf of the employee, if requested, so that continuous coverage may be maintained.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-4-105
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21-4-105. Leave of absence for reexamination or treatment of service-connected disability.
(a) All employees of the State of Arkansas, as defined in § 21-4-203, who have been rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor to have incurred a military service-connected disability and have been scheduled by the department to be reexamined or treated for the disability shall be entitled to a leave of absence with pay for a period not to exceed six (6) days for that purpose during any one (1) calendar year.
(b)(1) If an employee receives a leave of absence under this section, the employee shall be entitled to his or her regular salary during the time the employee is away from his or her duties during the leave of absence.
(2) The leave of absence shall be in addition to the regular annual leave and sick leave allowed to the employee.
(c) During a leave of absence, the employee shall be entitled to preserve:
(1) All seniority rights, efficiency or performance ratings, promotional status, retirement privileges, and life and disability insurance benefits; and
(2) Any other rights, privileges, and benefits to which he or she has become entitled.
(d) For purposes of computations to determine whether the employee may be entitled to retirement benefits, the period of the leave of absence shall be deemed continuous service.
(e) The state shall continue to contribute its portion of any life or disability insurance premiums during the leave of absence on behalf of the employee, if requested, so that continuous coverage may be maintained.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
21-4-203. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Agency head” or “agency director” means the executive head of an agency, department, board, commission, bureau, council, or other entity of the state;
(2) “Annual leave” means vacation time with pay but does not include compensatory time;
(3) “Catastrophic illness” means a medical condition, as certified by a physician, of an employee, of the spouse or parent of the employee or of a child of the employee who may be claimed as a dependent under the Income Tax Act of 1929 which requires the employee's absence from duty for a prolonged period of time and which, except for the catastrophic leave program, would result in a substantial loss of income to the employee because of the exhaustion of all earned sick and annual leave;
(4) “Catastrophic leave” means leave granted to an employee as a result of a catastrophic illness, upon the employee's exhausting all sick and annual leave;
(5) “Catastrophic leave bank” means a pool of accrued annual and sick leave donated by employees;
(6) “Compensatory time” means time off in lieu of payment for overtime hours;
(7) “Educational leave” means any period of out-service training during which time the employee pursues a regular full-time course of instruction to acquire a specific skill or skills needed;
(8) “Employee” means a person regularly appointed or employed in a position of state service by a state agency, as defined in subdivision (11) of this section, for which he or she is compensated on a full-time basis;
(9) “Probationary employee” means a person certified from a list of eligibles or employed through a work test appointment and serving a probationary period;
(10) “Provisional employee” means a person who has been appointed to fill a position pending
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-4-203
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 21-4-203. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.