A few weeks ago, when the General Assembly called itself back into a special session following the passage of The Disaster Recovery Act of 2016, the legislature took up some important bipartisan reforms to North Carolina’s ethics, elections, and court systems. At the same time, another piece of bipartisan legislation, House Bill 17, was also passed […]
Human Resources
Modernizing State Personnel
On August 21, 2013, Governor McCrory signed into law House Bill 834 to promote efficiency in state government by changing how public employees are managed, hired and fired. The new law represents an overhaul of the State Personnel Act, which has not been updated in decades and applies to the state’s 120,000 taxpayer-funded public employees. […]