Definitions
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 139 N.C. App. 676 - Johnson v. Trustees of Durham Technical Community College (2000)
Most recently applied in Harris v. Blue Ridge Health Servs., Inc. (June 2019)
1991 (Reg
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The following definitions apply in this Article:
(1) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, the State, a city, town, county, municipality, local agency, or other entity of government.
(2) "Retaliatory action" means the discharge, suspension, demotion, retaliatory relocation of an employee, or other adverse employment action taken against an employee in the terms, conditions, privileges, and benefits of employment.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.