NV · 3 rules · reviewed 2026-07
Nevada scheduling laws
Nevada has daily overtime, but with a wage-rate condition most guides get wrong, and it defines the workday as a rolling 24 hours from when the shift starts rather than midnight-to-midnight. That definition is deliberate: it stops back-to-back shifts straddling two calendar days from dodging the daily premium.
This is a reference, not legal advice. Every rule below links to its primary source — a statute, an ordinance, or the enforcing agency — so you can read the law rather than a summary of a summary. Consult counsel before relying on any of it.
All 3 rules below apply regardless of industry. Most US predictive-scheduling law is municipal, so where a rule comes from a city ordinance its name says so — a company can easily have one location covered and two not.
Daily overtime, conditional on pay rate
NRS 608.0181.5x for more than 8 hours in a 24-hour period applies to employees earning less than 1.5x the state minimum wage. Employees at or above that rate are subject only to the weekly 40-hour rule. Two people on the same 10-hour shift can therefore cost differently.
In Weekwright: Hourly rates live on positions, so the payroll export prices each shift by the position actually worked. That is the input you need to work out which staff fall under the daily trigger — and MAX_HOURS_PER_DAY at 8 with WARNING severity flags the shifts to check rather than blocking a legal 10-hour shift for someone who is exempt from the daily rule.
The workday is 24 rolling hours, not a calendar day
NRS 608.0126Nevada's workday is the 24 consecutive hours beginning when the employee's shift starts. A shift ending at 02:00 and another starting at 22:00 the same evening can fall inside one workday even though the calendar shows two days.
In Weekwright: Overnight shifts are stored as one shift with its own timezone rather than split across two calendar rows, so the hours that a rolling-24-hour rule cares about are actually in one place. MIN_REST_HOURS_BETWEEN_SHIFTS then prevents the pattern that triggers it.
Meal and rest periods
NRS 608.019An uninterrupted 30-minute meal period for a continuous 8 hours of work, and a 10-minute paid rest period for each 4 hours worked or major fraction thereof.
In Weekwright: Break punches are typed MEAL or REST with a paid flag, and the payroll export deducts unpaid breaks while clamping a break that overruns its shift to zero rather than producing a negative. check_meal_break_compliance audits the punches after the fact.
Primary sources
Read the law itself. These are the statutes, ordinances and agencies the rules above are taken from.
Nevada by industry
The same statutes read for one vertical, with the scheduling patterns that vertical actually runs.
Other states
Again, because it matters: this is not legal advice. It is a reading aid over primary sources, maintained by a software company rather than a law firm. It surfaces obvious gaps so you can act on them — it does not tell you whether a specific ordinance applies to your specific business. Consult counsel for that. Found something out of date? hello@weekwright.com — a correction to a primary source is welcome from anyone, customer or not.
Rules your Nevada schedule actually checks.
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