Nevada Overtime Labor Law

August 11th, 2006 Posted by Mark

We are now onto Nevada’s overtime labor law, an interesting case study in overtime law. That’s because the state, unlike some others that we have looked at and will continue to look at, actually has its own statutes on the books regarding labor laws.

Of course, a lot of the Nevada law is pretty standard, meaning that it has similar provisions to it as the federal overtime labor law in the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as similar provisions to other state laws.

The biggest of them is the definition of the work week. In Nevada, as in many places, it’s 40 hours. So as an employer, if I had some of my employees work more than 40 hours in a week, then I would owe them premium pay for that time. This premium pay in Nevada, as it is in many places and nationally, is time and a half what they normally would earn.

Nevada also has a rule, though, for overtime considerations based on a standard workday of eight hours. If an employee of mine earns a base rate of one and a half times the minimum wage, which equals $7.725 in Nevada, or he or she earns less than that, then they can earn overtime pay if they work more than those eight hours in any given day.

The exception to this last rule, however, is if I have come to an agreement with my employee that he or she can work four 10-hour days in a week, rather than five eight-hour days.

Nevada also has its own exceptions to the overtime rule. Employees who don’t get overtime include outside buyers, salesmen earning commissions who get paid more than 1.5 times the minimum wage as their base rate or half their pay comes from commission, professionals, executives, administrators and some other salaried, white-collar workers, and railroad workers, among others.

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