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The Arkansas Appeal Tribunal is a
state agency A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, s ...
of the
Government of Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the ...
. Persons unsatisfied with
unemployment insurance Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is the proportion of people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work du ...
(UI) determinations issued by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services may appeal to the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal within 20 days. The Tribunal holds hearings. The Appeal Tribunal is based in
Little Rock Little Rock is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Arkansas, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. The six-county Central Arkan ...
. In 1989, the Tribunal had a staff of about 30 and was funded by, but separate from, the Arkansas Employment Security Division. The Arkansas Employment Security Division was renamed the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS) in 2005. In 2019, following a state government reorganization, the Department of Workforce Services became the Division of Workforce Services within the Arkansas Department of Commerce. In late 2020, a slowdown in the processing of UI appeals was attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in Arkansas. Decisions of the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal are subject to further review by the Arkansas Board of Review, which can be further reviewed by the
Arkansas Court of Appeals The Arkansas Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Arkansas. It was created in 1978 by Amendment 58 of the Arkansas Constitution, which was implemented by Act 208 of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1979. The cour ...
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* {{Official website , https://portal.arkansas.gov/state-directory/ , name=Official website (Arkansas.gov) United States labor law