North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.3. Fees and contracts; filing with Commissioner
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.3
- Commissioner: means the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor or any person designated by the Commissioner as the representative of the Commissioner. See North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.1
- Employment: means any service or engagement rendered or undertaken for wages, salary, commission, or other form of compensation. 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
- Licensee: means any person licensed by the Commissioner to operate a private personnel service. See North Carolina General Statutes 95-47.1
- 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
(a) Every license applicant shall file with the Commissioner a schedule of fees or charges made by the private personnel service to applicants for employment for any services rendered, stating clearly the conditions under which the private personnel service refunds or does not refund a fee, together with all rules or regulations that may in any manner affect the fees charged or to be charged for any service. Every license applicant and licensee shall include in its schedule of fees or charges a clear description of how it determines fees for placement of employment, the compensation of which is based, in whole or in part, on commission. Changes in the schedule may be made, but no change shall become effective until seven calendar days after the filing thereof with the Commissioner. It is unlawful for a private personnel service to charge, demand, collect or receive a greater compensation from an applicant for employment for any service performed than as specified in the schedule filed with the Commissioner.
(b) Every license applicant shall file with the Commissioner a copy of the contract which the private personnel service will require applicants for employment to execute. (1979, c. 780, s. 1; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 970, s. 1.)