Chapter 96 Employment Security
Article 1 - Employment Security Commission.
Article 2 - Unemployment Insurance Division.
- § 96-8 Definitions
As used in this Chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Benefits" means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this...
- § 96-9 Contributions
(a) Payment. (1) Except as provided in subsection (d) hereof, contributions shall accrue and become payable by each employer for each calendar year in which...
- § 96-10 Collection of contributions
(a) Interest on Past‑Due Contributions. Contributions unpaid on the date on which they are due and payable, as prescribed by the Commission, shall bear interest...
- § 96-11 Period, election, and termination of employer's coverage
(a) Any employing unit which is or becomes an employer subject to this Chapter within any calendar year shall be subject to this Chapter during...
- § 96-12 Benefits
(a) Payment of Benefits. Twenty‑four months after the date when contributions first accrue under this Chapter benefits shall become payable from the fund. All benefits...
- § 96-12.01 Extended benefits
(a) Extended benefits shall be paid under this Chapter as provided in this section. (a1) Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context clearly...
- § 96-12.1 Extended base period for certain job related injuries
If an individual lacks sufficient base period wages because of a job related injury for which he received workers' compensation, upon written application by the...
- § 96-13 Benefit eligibility conditions
(a) An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the Commission finds that ‑ (1) The individual...
- § 96-14 Disqualification for benefits
An individual shall be disqualified for benefits: (1) For the duration of his unemployment beginning with the first day of the first week after the...
- § 96-15 Claims for benefits
(a) Filing. Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the Commission may prescribe. Employers may file claims for employees through...
- § 96-15.1 Protection of witnesses from discharge, demotion, or intimidation
(a) No person may discharge, demote, or threaten any person because that person has testified or has been summoned to testify in any proceeding under...
- § 96-15.2 Protection of witness before the Employment Security Commission
If any person shall by threats, menace, or in any other manner intimidate or attempt to intimidate any person who is summoned or acting as...
- § 96-16 Seasonal pursuits
(a) A seasonal pursuit is one which, because of seasonal conditions making it impracticable or impossible to do otherwise, customarily carries on production operations only...
- § 96-17 Protection of rights and benefits; attorney representation; prohibited fees; deductions for child support obligations
(a) Waiver of Rights Void. Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute his rights to benefits or any other rights under this...
- § 96-18 Penalties
(a) Any person who makes a false statement or representation knowing it to be false or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact to obtain...
- § 96-19 Enforcement of Employment Security Law discontinued upon repeal or invalidation of federal acts; suspension of enforcement provisions contested
(a) It is the purpose of this Chapter to secure for employers and employees the benefits of Title III and Title IX of the Federal...
Article 3 - Employment Service Division.
- § 96-20 Duties of Division; conformance to Wagner-Peyser Act; organization; director; employees
The Employment Service Division of the Employment Security Commission shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such number and in such places as...
- § 96-21 Duties concerning veterans and worker profiling
The duties of the Employment Service Division include the following: (1) To cooperate with all State and federal agencies in attempting to secure suitable employment...
- § 96-22 Employment of and assistance to minors
The Employment Service Division shall have jurisdiction over all matters contemplated in this Article pertaining to securing employment for all minors who avail themselves of...
- § 96-23 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 197, s. 8
- § 96-24 Local offices; cooperation with United States service; financial aid from United States
The Employment Service Division is authorized to enter into agreement with the governing authorities of any municipality, county, township, or school corporation in the State...
- § 96-25 Acceptance and use of donations
It shall be lawful for the Employment Service Division to receive, accept, and use, in the name of the people of the State, or any...
- § 96-26 Cooperation of towns, townships, and counties with Division
It shall be lawful for the governing authorities of any municipality, county, township, or school corporation in the State to enter into cooperative agreement with...
- § 96-27 Method of handling employment service funds
All federal funds received by this State under the Wagner‑Peyser Act (48 Stat. 113; Title 29, U.S.C., section 49) as amended, and all State funds...
- § 96-28 Repealed by Session Laws 1951, c. 332, s. 17
- § 96-29 Openings listed by State agencies
Every State agency shall list with the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina every job opening occurring within the agency which opening the agency wishes...
Article 4 - Job Training, Education, and Placement Information Management.
- § 96-30 Findings and purpose
The General Assembly finds it in the best interests of this State that the establishment, maintenance, and funding of State job training, education, and placement...
- § 96-31 Definitions
As used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the term: (1) "CFS" means the common follow‑up information management system developed by the...
- § 96-32 Common follow-up information management system created
(a) The Employment Security Commission of North Carolina shall develop, implement, and maintain a common follow‑up information management system for tracking the employment status of...
- § 96-33 State agencies required to provide information and data
(a) Every State agency and local government agency or entity that receives State or federal funds for the direct or indirect support of State job...
- § 96-34 Prohibitions on use of information collected
Data and information reported, collected, maintained, disseminated, and analyzed may not be used by any State or local government agency or entity for purposes of...
- § 96-35 Reports on common follow-up system activities
(a) The Employment Security Commission of North Carolina shall present annually by May 1 to the General Assembly and to the Governor a report of...
