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This Week's Briefing   The N.C. Court of
Appeals, in a decision that will be welcomed by large
employers trying to contain their workers' comp premiums,
has ruled that “total disability” means exactly
what it says: For an injured worker to collect total
disability payments he or she must be unable to return to
work at any job -- his old job or some other lower-paying
job. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decisions.House
and Senate conferees hope to quickly resolve differences
in budget bills that have passed each chamber, setting
the stage for a possible adjournment of this year's
legislative session within a week or so. The only major
item in disagreement is whether to give most state empl
(except classroom teachers) a 5 percent pay raise, as the
House wants) or a 3 percent raise, as the Senate prefers.
The Senate is reluctant to go along with the bigger pay
raise out of a fear that that state employees health plan
is facing a huge deficit next year. Both budgets envision
state spending of just over $14 billion for the year that
begins July 1. General
Assembly actionsHundreds
of the state's top business and education leaders will
join Gov. Jim Hunt and Mac Everett, President of First
Union Mid-Atlantic, co-chairs for the event, on June 27
for the N.C. Business Summit for Education 2000. The
event is designed to tap ideas and to develop workable
strategies to improve family, community, and business
support for North Carolina’s public schools. The
Summit, a follow up to a similar statewide meeting held
in 1997, is a key component of Hunt's goal to make North
Carolina's schools First in America by 2010. State Government News BriefsNorth
Carolina -- which historically has run one of the
nation's most progressive unemployment insurance programs
-- apparently will not be among states participating in a
new federal program that allows states to use
unemployment insurance money to provide workers with up
to 12 weeks paid leave after a birth or adoption in their
families. Federal News
BriefsNCCBI's influence in state politics -- that is,
the influence of 2,000 members that we collectively exert
-- is on the line over passage of the $3.1 billion bond
issue for higher education facilities and over a
constitutional referendum on legislative session limits.
It is critical that NCCBI members get involved in
supporting both these issues. Read the
Member Alert, contact your legislatorYou are NCCBI member |
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