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The Charlotte Observer’s database reflects base salaries but not bonuses and other incentives. The data is current as of March 2022. View the highest-paid county employees here .
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's part-time state legislators have gotten a 4.1% raise. Their annual salaries went up by $781 to $19,817 a year on July 1, without any action on their part.
Union groups from across Rhode Island, joined by members of Occupy Providence, rally outside the State House on Nov. 8, 2011, to protest what they called severe pension cuts.
A labor commissioner is a public official in the executive branch of a state or territory in the United States. Their general role is to oversee the administration of state laws relating to labor and the workforce. [1] All 50 states have labor commissioners.
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union ... Rhode Island: 12.3 3.8%: 62,000: ... Organized labor portal;
The body has its origin in the colonial government of the Province of North Carolina. Under North Carolina's first constitution as a state of the United States, the Council of State comprised seven persons elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to advise the governor. The 1868 constitution redefined the Council of State as the secretary ...
Counties in Rhode Island have had no governmental functions since 1846 other than as court administrative and sheriff corrections boundaries which are part of state government. Within Rhode Island, Washington County is colloquially referred to as South County. [4] The colony of Rhode Island was established in the 17th century.
Each week, join Dawn Vaughan for The News & Observer and NC Insider’s Under the Dome podcast, an in-depth analysis of topics in state government and politics for North Carolina.