insurance for injuries during employment, in exchange for relinquishing the right to sue the employer
The left-wing media establishment is busy focusing on teacher pay, but they should spend some time talking about teacher benefits. Salaries were a $5.9 billion state expenditure last year. The…
News & Record reprints a Wilson Times editorial slamming state Sen. Trudy Wade’s modification to a House bill that would classify paper carriers as employees, requiring news organizations to requiring…
The State Board of Education usually votes on contracts every month with one fell swoop. Next week the Board has a hefty list of 46 pages consisting of 74 individual…
Republicans took control over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011 and have held a majority in both houses since. In keeping with conservative ideals, many reforms were passed to…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled this morning in favor of the state Board of Barber Examiners in a dispute with the owner of three…
In a move that does not require a vote of the Board of Education, Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Beverly Emory will put in place a stricter workers comp program designed…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court and ruled against the city of Charlotte in a legal dispute over a Queens College…
Today, Governor McCrory delivered a press conference where he outlined many of the state’s initiatives and what he plans to oversee through his cabinet during the 2014 legislative year and…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order favoring the Atlantic Coast Conference in its legal battle against departing member the University…
View in your browser. Following on from last week’s newsletter and approaching the Labor Day weekend, I wanted to continue the discussion of Labor. Another common conversation about labor is…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about a new state performance audit that criticizes the N.C. Industrial Commission for lax monitoring of businesses that are supposed to provide worker’s…
Perhaps “praise” is too strong a word, but I found myself mentally leaping to the defense of state government bureaucrats this morning as I read the latest installment in the…