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Arkansas Code Title 21. Public Officers and Employees § 21-1-801. Definitions

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in this subchapter:

(1)(A) “Public employee” means a person who performs a full-time or part-time service for wages, salary, or other remuneration for a public employer.

(B) “Public employee” includes without limitation a state employee under § 21-1-610.

(C) “Public employee” does not include a:

(i) Public safety officer, including without limitation a:

(a) Law enforcement officer; and

(b) Firefighter; and

(ii) Public transit system employee whose public employer is a recipient of a federal grant administered by the Federal Transit Administration;

(2) “Public employer” means:

(A) An agency, department, board, commission, division, office, bureau, council, authority, or other instrumentality of the state, including the offices of the various Arkansas elected constitutional officers and the General Assembly and its agencies, bureaus, and divisions;

(B) A state-supported college, university, technical college, community college, or other institution of higher education or a department, division, or agency of a state institution of higher education;

(C) The Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the circuit courts, and prosecuting attorneys' offices; and

(D) A public school district, school, or an office or department of a public school district in Arkansas; and

(3) “Strike” means a refusal to work organized by two (2) or more public employees as a form of protest in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from a public employer.

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