25 NCAC 01E .1801. POLICY

(a) Incentive leave may be used as a recruitment tool to assist in the employment of candidates employed outside of State government who are interested in accepting employment within North Carolina State government. (b) An agency may award incentive leave to applicants who are newly appointed to a position that the agency has identified as critical to the agency mission and for which the agency has documented recruitment difficulty attracting qualified applicants, or who are newly appointed to an executive management position.