Press Releases

The State of North Carolina Virtual Career Expo will welcome jobseekers interested in careers in state government from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

State employees can use up to three days (24 hours) of paid time off to volunteer with their County Board of Elections to help with this fall’s elections, the Office of State Human Resources announced today. 

More than 1,600 state employees used Paid Parental Leave in the first year the benefit became available through an executive order issued by Governor Roy Cooper.

Sixteen state employees with 45 years of public service have been honored with the Richard Caswell Award.

Nine state employees were honored with Governor’s Awards for Excellence today during a ceremony in the N.C. Museum of History.

Leaders of the Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will recognize Governor Roy Cooper’s proclamation of October as Disability Employment Awareness Month in North Carolina at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Learning and Development Center, 101 W. Peace St., Raleigh.

The Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) today launched a new pedestrian safety initiative, WalkSmartNC, by encouraging state employees and others who live in, work in or visit the State Capitol to provide feedback to the online Downtown Raleigh Pedestrian Safety Study.

The Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) will launch a new pedestrian safety initiative, WalkSmartNC, Thursday morning in collaboration with the Governor’s Highway Safety Program and several state and local agencies.

First Lady Kristin Cooper today visited the REX Mobile Mammography Unit (MMU), which is parked downtown in a state government lot to provide 3D screenings to state employees and other women as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.