Any temporary help service as described in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 95-47.1(16)c. that operates in North Carolina shall notify the Department of Labor in writing that the temporary help service:

(1)        Operates only as a temporary help service;

(2)        Establishes an employer-employee relationship with its temporaries;

(3)        Does not operate as a private personnel service or an employer fee paid personnel consulting service. (1989, c. 414, s. 3.)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.14

  • Employer: means a person employing or seeking to employ a person for compensation, or any representative or employee of such employer. See North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.1
  • Fee: means anything of value, including money or other valuable consideration or services or the promise of any of the foregoing, required or received by a private personnel service, in payment for any of its services, or act rendered or to be rendered by any private personnel service. See North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.1
  • in writing: may be construed to include printing, engraving, lithographing, and any other mode of representing words and letters: Provided, that in all cases where a written signature is required by law, the same shall be in a proper handwriting, or in a proper mark. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Private personnel service: means any business operated in the State of North Carolina by any person for profit which secures employment or by any form of advertising holds itself out to applicants as able to secure employment or to provide information or service of any kind purporting to promote, lead to or result in employment for the applicant with any employer other than itself, where any applicant may become liable for the payment of a fee to the private personnel service, either directly or indirectly. See North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.1