Arkansas does not have law that concerns meal and rest periods. However, Arkansas does have laws which concern the length of the work day, including the following sections in the Arkansas Code.

5-14-112. Breastfeeding

(c) A woman is not in violation of this section for breastfeeding a child in a public place or any place where other individuals are present.

(a)(1) An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her child in order to maintain milk supply and comfort.

(2) To the extent possible, the break time required under subdivision (a)(1) of this section shall run concurrently with any paid or unpaid break time already provided to the employee.

(b)(1) An employer shall make a reasonable effort to provide a private, secure, and sanitary room or other location in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an employee can express her breast milk.

(2) The room or location provided under subdivision (b)(1) of this section may include the employee's normal work space if the employee’s normal work space meets the requirements of this section.

(c) This section does not require an employer to provide break time if to do so would create an undue hardship on the operations of the employer.

(d) The employee shall make reasonable efforts to minimize disruption to the employer's operations.

11-4-102. Maximum hours in saw and planing mills.

(a) This section shall apply to all associations of persons, companies, or corporations engaged in the business of operating or constructing saw and planing mills in this state and to all workers and laborers to be employed by any such association, company, or corporation in any department relating to the running and management of the mills.

(b) Ten (10) hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of workers and laborers designated in subsection (a) of this section.

(c)

(1) Any association, company, or corporation engaged in the business of operating or construction of saw and planing mills in the state, or any officer or agent thereof, who shall exact more hours of labor than is fixed as a day's labor in subsection (b) of this section or who shall discharge or refuse to further employ any servant or employee by reason of his refusal or unwillingness to perform more than ten (10) hours of labor per day or who shall fail to comply with, violate, or directly or indirectly evade the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(2) Upon conviction, he shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), to be paid into the common school fund.

(3) Each day's violation of this section or of any part thereof shall be considered a separate offense.

(d) Nothing in this section shall prevent employer and employee, as mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, from contracting for a less number of hours for a legal day's work than is mentioned in subsection (b) of this section.

Sec. 6-17-2205. Classified school employees, Break periods

For those classified employees working more than twenty (20) hours per week:

(1) Each school district in the state shall provide no less than two (2) paid, fifteen (15) minute breaks during each regular workday for each classified school employee. The contract day shall not be extended to provide for this act.
(2) Each school district shall file an affidavit for compliance with the Department of Education regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act for classified employees unless the school district policies or state laws impose higher standards.

A woman may breastfeed a child in a public place or any place where other individuals are present.

Sec. 23-13-101. Hours of duty and rest period of drivers.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any companies, firms, or corporations, or officers of courts or individuals owning, operating, leasing, or subleasing any lines using vehicles propelled by any form of energy on the highways of Arkansas for the purpose of transporting passengers, freight, mail, express, or any commodity to keep their drivers on duty more than fifteen (15) consecutive hours. At the expiration of fifteen (15) hours of duty, the driver must have at least eight (8) hours of rest.

(b) Any companies, firms, corporations, lessees or sublessees, or individuals violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). Each vehicle illegally operated as provided in this section shall constitute a separate offense.

(c) This section shall not apply in case of wrecks or washouts.

Sec. 23-12-509. Limit on hours of service of trainmen on freight trains.

(a)

(1) Any company owning or operating a railroad over thirty (30) miles in length in whole or in part within this state shall not permit or require any conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, or any trainman on any train, who has worked in his respective capacity for sixteen (16) consecutive hours, to again be required to go on duty or perform any work until he has had at least eight (8) hours rest, except in cases of wrecks or washout.

(2) However, at the expiration of the sixteen (16) hours continuous service, the engineer and trainmen on any train which is at a distance not exceeding twenty-five (25) miles from any division terminal or destination point shall be permitted, if they so elect, to run the train into the division terminal or destination point. The additional service permitted under this subdivision shall not be so construed as to relieve any railroad corporation from liabilities incurred under subsection (c) of this section.

(b) Any railroad company or corporation knowingly violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for the first offense; for any subsequent offense, it shall be liable for a penalty of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300), which shall be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state.

(c) In addition to the penalty prescribed in subsection (b) of this section, any corporation violating the provisions of this section shall not be permitted to interpose the defense of contributory negligence in the event of action being brought to recover for damages resulting from any accident which shall occur and by which injury shall be inflicted on any employee who may be detained in service more than sixteen (16) hours, notwithstanding that the negligence of the injured employee may have caused his own injury. Nor shall the defense of contributory negligence be interposed if the injury resulted in the death of the employee and the action is brought for the benefit of his next of kin.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger trains.