Ark. Code Ann. § 11-3-304
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Contracts to exclude persons from employment prohibited
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(a) No person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, or labor organization shall enter into any contract to exclude from employment: (1) Persons who are members of, or affiliated with, a labor union; (2) Persons who are not members of, or who fail or refuse to join or affiliate with, a labor union; and (3) Persons who, having joined a labor union, have resigned their membership or have been discharged, expelled, or excluded. (b) (1) Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, either for themselves or others, who sign, approve, or enter into a contract contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (2) Each day that the unlawful contract is given effect, or in any manner complied with, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such as provided in this section. Acts 1947, No. 101, §§ 3, 4; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 81-203, 81-204.
(a) No person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, or labor organization shall enter into any contract to exclude from employment: (1) Persons who are members of, or affiliated with, a labor union; (2) Persons who are not members of, or who fail or refuse to join or affiliate with, a labor union; and (3) Persons who, having joined a labor union, have resigned their membership or have been discharged, expelled, or excluded.
(1) Persons who are members of, or affiliated with, a labor union;
(2) Persons who are not members of, or who fail or refuse to join or affiliate with, a labor union; and
(3) Persons who, having joined a labor union, have resigned their membership or have been discharged, expelled, or excluded.
(b) (1) Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, either for themselves or others, who sign, approve, or enter into a contract contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (2) Each day that the unlawful contract is given effect, or in any manner complied with, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such as provided in this section.
(1) Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, either for themselves or others, who sign, approve, or enter into a contract contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Each day that the unlawful contract is given effect, or in any manner complied with, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such as provided in this section.
Acts 1947, No. 101, §§ 3, 4; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 81-203, 81-204.
(a) No person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, or labor organization shall enter into any contract to exclude from employment: (1) Persons who are members of, or affiliated with, a labor union; (2) Persons who are not members of, or who fail or refuse to join or affiliate with, a labor union; and (3) Persons who, having joined a labor union, have resigned their membership or have been discharged, expelled, or excluded.
(1) Persons who are members of, or affiliated with, a labor union;
(2) Persons who are not members of, or who fail or refuse to join or affiliate with, a labor union; and
(3) Persons who, having joined a labor union, have resigned their membership or have been discharged, expelled, or excluded.
(b) (1) Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, either for themselves or others, who sign, approve, or enter into a contract contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (2) Each day that the unlawful contract is given effect, or in any manner complied with, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such as provided in this section.
(1) Any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, either for themselves or others, who sign, approve, or enter into a contract contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person, group of persons, firm, corporation, association, labor organization, or representatives thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Each day that the unlawful contract is given effect, or in any manner complied with, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such as provided in this section.
Acts 1947, No. 101, §§ 3, 4; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 81-203, 81-204.
Status: in_force
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