This state-specific guide covers labor and employment case law, statutes, rules, and regulations that HR professionals and clients often encounter Information about employer responsibilities, youth employment, e-verify, drug testing and retaliatory employment discrimination.County boards and city councils have the authority under North Carolina law to enact ordinances that give their employee protection in the same. You are required to have a completed Form I-9 on file for each employee hired on or after. The term "employment-at-will" simply means that unless there is a specific law to protect employees or there is an employment contract providing. In addition, the North Carolina Workers Compensation Act generally covers employees whose injuries arise "out of and in the course of" their employment. Unsure of what your boss is allowed to do to you? Feeling discriminated against at work? North Carolina law prohibits an employer from discriminating and retaliating against employees in a variety of protected classes. Being late once, a personality clash or a simple mistake are all legally acceptable reasons to terminate an employee in the eyes of the law.