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North Carolina Unemployment Insurance Update

January 1st, 2007 Posted by Mark

In North Carolina, as a new employer, one of the first things you are expected to do is figure out if you are liable to pay unemployment insurance benefit taxes. And once you are determined to be liable for these taxes, the next thing you ought to do is place an unemployment insurance poster on the wall in each and every one of your work sites—English if you have predominantly English speakers at the site and Spanish if you have some Spanish speaking employees at any of your work sites.

Not only does the poster tell you employees that they have unemployment insurance coverage through you. The poster lets them know what their rights and responsibilities are under the North Carolina unemployment insurance system. That means they will understand how and when to ask for such unemployment benefits—in other words, when they lose their job with your company through no fault of their own and are in the process of getting a job somewhere else.

The unemployment insurance coverage poster could also help with preventing fraud in the system as well. But the North Carolina Employment Security Commission also does its part to try to prevent fraud in the unemployment system. The North Carolina Employment Security Commission runs an operation all year long to try to track down those who are receiving unemployment benefits when they shouldn’t be.

You the North Carolina employers can help the North Carolina Employment Security Commission with this task. They send you a Request for Breakdown of Earnings form every quarter that somebody is claiming unemployment benefits but is receiving some sort of salary from you. If you can complete this form accurately and on time and send it back to the Commission, they can better stop any overpayments that may be taking place.