North Carolina Industrial Commission Criminal Investigations and Employee Classification Division

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The division investigates potential criminal violations of North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Act and suspected employee misclassification. The Commission identifies investigation of employers lacking required coverage, workers’ compensation fraud and improper deductions of employer premiums from workers’ pay. Its remit is specialized; a benefit adjudication or workplace disagreement is not automatically a police investigation.

How the agency is organized

The Commission expressly identifies Criminal Investigations as a law-enforcement agency staffed with law-enforcement officers. The Employee Classification Section coordinates with relevant state agencies on misclassification issues and recovery of amounts owed. These related functions are described together without treating every Commission hearing office as a police department.

Agency history and local context

The official page ties the Employee Classification Section to the Employee Fair Classification Act and Session Law 2017-203. That enactment is a documented section milestone, not an asserted founding date of the entire Criminal Investigations Division.

Official records and officer resources

The Commission supplies separate online reporting routes for employer fraud, employee fraud and employee misclassification. Its division hotline is 919-716-1701, with toll-free 888-891-4895. The division’s mail-service address is not a street headquarters, and the general Commission phone is different from the investigative reporting contact.

FBI data · 2025

No unambiguous match for this agency was made in the FBI 2025 agency tables used for this directory. This does not mean the agency had no crime, no officers or no reporting obligation.

Blank or unavailable values remain “Not published.” Participating agencies and reporting scope vary. Campus figures concern the reporting institution; a city name does not expand them to all local residents. Read the data definitions and limitations.

Sources and review date

Official agency, government and institutional sources are linked below. Contact details and organizational information were reviewed September 24, 2026. Published statistical years are identified separately.

• Division authority, organization and reporting contacts
• Commission contact distinctions
• Official state special-agent recruitment