Nevada Labor Guidance
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Changing therapists from employees to independent contractors for a new flat-rate payment structure
A mental-health services company asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether it could classify a new group of therapists as independent contractors, paid a flat rate per appointment, while its existin…
Which employees performing some managerial tasks may join a tip pool
A law firm asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether hourly, non-exempt employees who perform some managerial or supervisory tasks (but can't hire, fire, discipline, schedule, or otherwise set other…
Overlapping 24-hour workdays and daily overtime, with worked examples
An attorney asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner to clarify an earlier opinion (AO-2024-01) on how a "workday" -- a rolling 24-consecutive-hour period starting when an employee begins a shift -- can ov…
Voluntary payroll deductions for employee food purchases, logged rather than individually signed
An employer offering discounted employee meals asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether its practice -- employees sign a shared logbook per purchase, and the total shows as one lump deduction line …
When daily overtime hours exceed weekly overtime hours (or vice versa), which controls
A law firm asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner how to calculate overtime for an employee entitled to daily overtime (working more than 8 hours in a workday) who also crosses 40 hours in the same workw…
Shift differential pay on prevailing-wage public works projects
An attorney asked whether the Labor Commissioner fully adopts a union collective bargaining agreement's shift-differential terms for the Electrician Wireman craft on public works projects, whether non…
Prevailing wage does not extend to post-completion plant establishment work
A landscaping subcontractor asked whether Nevada prevailing wage applies to one-year "plant establishment work" (watering, weeding, and replacing dead plants) performed after a public works project re…
Truck drivers exempt from Apprenticeship Utilization Act reporting
Responding to inquiries from the trucking industry, the Labor Commissioner addressed whether Senate Bill 82's Apprenticeship Utilization Act (AUA) annual reporting requirement -- which requires contra…
Daily overtime for a '4/10s' employee who works more than ten hours in a day
A law firm asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether an employee who regularly works a "4/10s" schedule (four 10-hour days) owes daily overtime only for the hours over ten worked on the one day they…
Prevailing wage coverage of security/building-automation "programming" work
Clark County Purchasing and Contracts asked whether "programming" work for access-control systems, the Metasys building-automation system, and camera/video systems -- installed under the Electrician C…
Attendance-point discipline for using paid leave, and the collective-bargaining-agreement exemption
A law firm asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether an employer with a collective bargaining agreement providing generous paid leave is exempt from Nevada's mandatory paid-leave law (NRS 608.0197) …
Out-of-state apprenticeship program reciprocity under the Apprenticeship Utilization Act
On behalf of the Air Conditioning Trade Association (ACTA), an HVAC apprenticeship program registered in California and South Carolina but not yet registered with Nevada's State Apprenticeship Council…
Prevailing wage on Tourism Improvement District projects, and retroactivity before TID approval
An attorney asked five questions about how NRS Chapter 338's prevailing wage requirements apply to Tourism Improvement District (TID) projects under NRS Chapter 271A -- particularly what happens when …
Foreman/general-foreman prevailing wage premium must match the CBA's base-rate-only calculation
A licensed contractor asked the Labor Commissioner to clarify the published prevailing wage rate for Laborers in the Clark Region, which was higher than the actual Local 872 collective bargaining agre…
Paying the same salesperson as both a W-2 employee and a 1099 contractor for the same sale
A solar-industry trade association asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner whether residential solar salespeople -- required by a 2023 licensing law to be a Licensed Contractor or its employee -- could be…
Senate Bill 82 apprenticeship reporting is not retroactive to pre-2024 public works contracts
Clark County Purchasing and Contracts asked whether Senate Bill 82's overhaul of the Apprenticeship Utilization Act (AUA) -- effective January 1, 2024, replacing the complaint-driven enforcement of th…
When a private project becomes a public work mid-project via a financing agreement
Sparks' City Attorney asked three questions about the 5 Ridges development: what records are needed to investigate a wage complaint if the project becomes a public work mid-project through a Developme…
Overlapping 24-hour workdays, split-rate shifts, and what counts as wages for overtime
A law firm asked the Nevada Labor Commissioner three questions: how the "week of work" and 24-hour "workday" definitions interact for overtime purposes, how to calculate overtime when an employee is p…
Prevailing wage for truck drivers hauling barrier rail from a shared NDOT storage yard
The Nevada Department of Transportation asked whether prevailing wage applies to truck drivers hauling temporary median barrier rail between a BLM-owned, NDOT-leased storage yard used for multiple pro…
Supplemental guidance on 4/10 schedules: discipline-related absences and extra shifts
The Nevada Labor Commissioner issued supplemental guidance on 4/10-schedule (four 10-hour-day) overtime rules, addressing two situations left open by Advisory Opinion 2013-04. First, placing an employ…
Senate Bill 207 Apprenticeship Utilization Act: implementation Q&A
Ahead of and following Senate Bill 207's January 1, 2020 effective date, the Labor Commissioner issued a wide-ranging Q&A Advisory Opinion on the Apprenticeship Utilization Act (AUA): which public wor…
"Jurisdiction" under the Apprenticeship Utilization Act means the SB 243 prevailing wage region
The Nevada Department of Transportation asked what "jurisdiction" means under Senate Bill 207's Apprenticeship Utilization Act (AUA) when deciding whether "good cause" exists for a waiver because no a…
Senate Bill 312 paid leave: implementation Q&A, plus an employer-exemption follow-up letter
Ahead of Senate Bill 312's January 1, 2020 effective date -- requiring Nevada employers with 50+ employees to provide paid leave accruing at 0.01923 hours per hour worked -- the Labor Commissioner iss…
Truck drivers hauling to/from an off-site private facility, including de minimis trips, are not owed prevailing wage
The Associated General Contractors - Nevada Chapter asked the Labor Commissioner to clarify when prevailing wage applies to truck drivers, including drivers making numerous round trips between a publi…
Apprentice wage calculation on public works, plus 2020 supplemental guidance on training-fee fringe benefits
The City of Reno asked the Labor Commissioner to confirm that apprentice wages set by collective bargaining agreements met Nevada's public-works prevailing wage requirements for apprentices. The Labor…
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These are official interpretive documents from Nevada's labor agency: opinion letters answering questions from employers and workers, administrative policies, and interpretive notices. They show how the agency applies wage-and-hour and workplace law to real situations, but they are guidance, not statutes or court decisions, and the agency can supersede or withdraw them. Every page above shows the document's current status, when that status was last verified, and a link to the official source.