Wants to enforce the Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act (REDA) to protect employees refusing the COVID vaccine.

Supports North Carolina's right-to-work law, ensuring no one is forced to join a union to maintain employment.

Wants to build partnerships for safety, ensuring everyone can return home safely after work.

- Wants to enforce the Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act (REDA) to protect employees refusing the COVID vaccine.
- Supports North Carolina's right-to-work law, ensuring no one is forced to join a union to maintain employment.
- Wants to build partnerships for safety, ensuring everyone can return home safely after work.

Labor

Plans to promote vocational/technical education and apprenticeships to address skilled labor shortages.

Oppose regulations that could harm job availability and increase living costs.

- Plans to promote vocational/technical education and apprenticeships to address skilled labor shortages.
- Oppose regulations that could harm job availability and increase living costs.

Businesses

Increase government transparency by returning the commissioner's picture to elevator certificates

Challenge federal overreach (e.g., PREP Act) that affects worker rights and safety under state law.

- Increase government transparency by returning the commissioner's picture to elevator certificates
- Challenge federal overreach (e.g., PREP Act) that affects worker rights and safety under state law.

Administration

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Luke Farley

Wants to ensure workplace safety across all industries and reduce fatalities and injuries.

Enforce fair wage laws to maintain a competitive market among businesses.

Wants to take a "whole worker" approach, enhancing community safety and worker welfare through accessible transportation and affordable housing.

Plans to foster public-private partnerships to improve access to healthcare, child care, and training opportunities.

- Wants to ensure workplace safety across all industries and reduce fatalities and injuries.
- Enforce fair wage laws to maintain a competitive market among businesses.
- Wants to take a "whole worker" approach, enhancing community safety and worker welfare through accessible transportation and affordable housing.
- Plans to foster public-private partnerships to improve access to healthcare, child care, and training opportunities.

Believes that "when workers are mentally and physically healthy, companies succeed."

Supports health care partnerships for the workforce. Believes that "when workers are mentally and physically healthy, companies succeed."

- Supports health care partnerships for the workforce. Believes that "when workers are mentally and physically healthy, companies succeed."

Plans to use infrastructure resources from the federal government to make transportation dependable and accessible through public-private partnerships.

- Plans to use infrastructure resources from the federal government to make transportation dependable and accessible through public-private partnerships.

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Braxton Winston II

- The Commissioner of Labor leads the Department of Labor, which is in charge of promoting the health, safety, and general well-being of more than 4 million workers in North Carolina.
- The Commissioner of Labor enforces safety regulations and oversees inspections of elevators, amusement devices at fairs and parks, and migrant housing to ensure safe conditions. 
- The Commissioner of Labor enforces labor regulations, which include workplace safety regulations, wage laws, and fair employment laws. 
- The Commissioner of Labor oversees an office of over 300 employees. They appoint and assign duties to clerks, stenographers, and other employees in the department. They can adjust their benefits and assign individuals to different divisions.
- The Commissioner of Labor is elected for a four-year term. The position has no term limits.