Former employees who file for benefits with the North Carolina Division of Employment Security (“D.E.S.”) may be found qualified or disqualified by an adjudicator during an initial filing process. The Employer or former employee has the right to file an appeal and...
Except in a couple of situations, your employer is not required to offer you any kind of severance package. There are only a couple of situations that require severance pay and these tend to not affect that many people. Typically, a severance package is offered...
A severance agreement is a lump sum of money that’s paid out to an employee when a company terminates them. What sets severance pay apart from normal wages is that an employee doesn’t receive it because of the work that they have performed. Instead, it’s a sum that’s...
If you’ve inherited items that you don’t want, one of the first important realizations that you can make is that you don’t need items to remember a person. A person is not defined by the things that they own. They’re defined by their personality, their actions, and...
Hi, Chris Wilms here from Hopler, Wilms & Hanna. As attorneys in the RTP area, of course we heard about the massive layoff affecting our families, friends, and neighbors. We thought it might be a good idea to talk about severance agreements, something that might...
Hurricane Matthew has been devastating for North Carolina. At the time of this, water’s still rising, the death toll is still ticking upward, and the energy companies are still struggling to restore power to many. When the waters do finally recede from this atrocity,...
Many people may be hesitant to talk about death with young children. It’s a difficult subject and it’s one that we may not want to broach with someone who hasn’t even started school yet. However, death is an inescapable part of life, and it’s important that children...
On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor finalized major revisions to overtime laws to modernize the rules for fair pay. Currently, employees making less than $455 per week ($23,660.00 per year) are eligible for overtime pay. Also, at present under the Fair Labor...
Hurricane Matthew has been devastating for North Carolina. At the time of writing, waters are still rising in eastern towns of Kinston, Goldsboro, and Greenville, the death toll is still ticking upward, and the energy companies are still struggling to restore power...
“It went the way it had to, the way it was always going to.” – Tyreese, Walking Dead “Beth wanted to get him here. She wanted to get him back home. This was for her. And it could have been for us, too.” – Rick Grimes, Walking Dead (Rick musing on why he...
