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Committee adopts change to unemployment law to cover employees fired for refusing COVID‑19 vaccine
Summary
SB 7‑30 would add an exemption in state unemployment law clarifying that employees terminated for refusing a COVID‑19 vaccine may remain eligible for unemployment benefits; the committee adopted an emergency‑clause amendment and passed the bill as amended.
Senator Garner presented SB 7‑30 as a narrowly tailored change to Arkansas’s unemployment‑insurance law to clarify access to benefits for workers terminated over refusal to take a COVID‑19 vaccine. "What this does is it takes a law we've had in effect since 1935... It adds an exemption ... to make sure still clear in the code that if…
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