Ratified on March 18, 1947, North Carolina’s right-to-work law is a part of the General Statutes. The measure outlawed requiring union membership as a condition of hiring or of continued employment. It bans the idea of a “closed shop,” in which union membership is a necessary part of getting and keeping a job.
The commissioner of labor is one of 10 independently elected members of the Council of State, which constitutes the executive branch of North Carolina’s government. Republican Josh Dobson, a former state legislator, is vacating the office after a single four-year term. His predecessor was Republican Cherie Berry, also a former member of the North Carolina...
Are you an employee or a contractor? This isn’t simply a matter of what you call yourself, or how you think about your relationship to those who pay you to perform services. Because formal employment is the subject of so many local, state, and federal rules, its definition is spelled out in law — and...
Last summer, Google fired a software engineer named James Damore for posting a controversial memo on an in-house message board. This week, Damore and another former Google employee filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and “all Google employees discriminated against … due to their perceived conservative political views … their male gender …...
Awarding career status to public school teachers protects the ineffective sandbaggers along with the average and the excellent.
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