RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Josh Stein’s Council on Workforce and Apprenticeships is launching an effort to engage 50,000 employers as partners in North Carolina’s workforce development system.
Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders are encouraging North Carolina employers to hire veterans and to apply for recognition with a HIRE Vets Medallion Award, an official program of the U.S. Department of Labor.
North Carolina’s top elected school official is calling the Biden administration’s national vaccine mandate a clear example of government overreach.
Some Republican members of the N.C. Council of State used a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 3, to underscore the challenges employers face in finding workers because, at least in part, of generous unemployment benefit payments from the federal government.
