Overtime: Arkansas
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Author: E. B. Chiles IV, Cameron C. McCree and Amber Davis-Tanner, Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC
Summary
- Arkansas requires the same overtime compensation as federal law. See Computing Overtime.
- The State of Arkansas and other political subdivisions may award compensatory time instead of overtime pay, subject to certain restrictions. See Compensatory Time.