Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 608 · 91 active provisions
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the health and welfare of workers and the employment of persons in private enterprise in this State are of concern to the State and that the health and welfare of persons required to earn their livings by their own endeavors require certain safeguards as to hours of servic…
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 608.009 to 608.0126, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
“Domestic service employee” means an employee who performs any household service in or about a private residence or any other location at which a person resides. The term includes, without limitation: 1. Caregivers and other persons who are employed at a residential facility for groups, as defined in NRS 449.017; and 2…
“Employee” includes both male and female persons in the service of an employer under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed.
“Employer” includes every person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or any employee.
“Private employment” means all employment other than employment under the direction, management, supervision and control of this State or any county, city or town therein, or any office or department thereof.
“Professional” means pertaining to: 1. An employee who is licensed or certified by the State of Nevada for and engaged in the practice of law or any of the professions regulated by chapters 623 to 645, inclusive, 645G and 656A of NRS. 2. A creative professional as described in 29 C.F.R. § 541.302 who is not an employee…
“Wages” means: 1. The amount which an employer agrees to pay an employee for the time the employee has worked, computed in proportion to time; 2. Commissions owed the employee; and 3. Amounts due to a discharged employee, an employee placed on nonworking status pursuant to NRS 608.020 or an employee who resigns or quit…
“Week of work” means 7 consecutive periods of 24 hours which may begin on any day and at any hour of the day.
“Workday” means a period of 24 consecutive hours which begins when the employee begins work.
Every employer shall conspicuously post and keep so posted on the premises where any person is employed a printed abstract of this chapter to be furnished by the Labor Commissioner.
It is unlawful for any person by force, intimidation, threat of procuring dismissal from employment or in any other manner to induce or attempt to induce an employee to refrain from testifying in any investigation or proceeding relating to or arising under this chapter, or to discharge or penalize any employee for so t…
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, for the purposes of this chapter, a person is conclusively presumed to be an independent contractor if: (a) Unless the person is a foreign national who is legally present in the United States, the person possesses or has applied for an employer identification number or s…
Except as otherwise provided in NRS 608.0195 and 608.215, and excluding from hours of work such time excluded by sections 2 and 4 of the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 252 and 254, and the following specific federal regulations adopted under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, wages or compensation paid to an employee whose duties include the manufacture of an explosive, or the use, processing, handling, on-site movement or storage of an explosive that is related to its manufacture, must be based solely on the number of hours the employee work…
1. It is unlawful for any employer to discriminate between employees, employed within the same establishment, on the basis of sex by paying lower wages to one employee than the wages paid to an employee of the opposite sex who performs equal work which requires equal skill, effort and responsibility and which is perfor…
1. An employer shall pay 1 1/2 times an employee’s regular wage rate whenever an employee who receives compensation for employment at a rate less than 1 1/2 times the minimum rate set forth in NRS 608.250 works: (a) More than 40 hours in any scheduled week of work; or (b) More than 8 hours in any workday unless by mutu…
1. An employer shall not employ an employee for a continuous period of 8 hours without permitting the employee to have a meal period of at least one-half hour. No period of less than 30 minutes interrupts a continuous period of work for the purposes of this subsection. 2. Every employer shall authorize and permit all h…
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3, 5 and 6, each employer shall provide an employee who is the mother of a child under 1 year of age with: (a) Reasonable break time, with or without compensation, for the employee to express breast milk as needed; and (b) A place, other than a bathroom, that is reasonably…
1. If an employee specified in paragraph (a) of subsection 3 is required to be on duty for 24 hours or more, the employer and employee may agree in writing to exclude from the employee’s wages a regularly scheduled sleeping period not to exceed 8 hours if adequate sleeping facilities are furnished: (a) By the employer…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, every employer in private employment shall provide paid leave to each employee of the employer as follows: (a) An employee is entitled to at least 0.01923 hours of paid leave for each hour of work performed. (b) An employee may, as determined by the employer, obtain paid…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, if an employer provides paid or unpaid sick leave for the use of his or her employees, the employer must allow an employee to use any accrued sick leave to assist a member of the immediate family of the employee who has an illness, injury, medical appointment or other au…
1. An employee who has been employed by an employer for at least 90 days and who is a victim of an act which constitutes domestic violence or sexual assault, or whose family or household member is a victim of an act which constitutes domestic violence or sexual assault, and the employee is not the alleged perpetrator,…
1. Whenever an employer discharges an employee, the wages and compensation earned and unpaid at the time of such discharge shall become due and payable immediately. 2. Whenever an employer places an employee on a nonworking status, the wages earned and unpaid at the time the employee is placed on nonworking status are…
Whenever an employee resigns or quits his or her employment, the wages and compensation earned and unpaid at the time of the employee’s resignation or quitting must be paid no later than: 1. The day on which the employee would have regularly been paid the wages or compensation; or 2. Seven days after the employee resig…