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Introduced Session

Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides that employees must be paid a minimum wage and must be paid overtime for certain hours. (NRS 608.018, 608.250; Nev. Const. Art. 15, 16) Section 6 of this bill enacts the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Section 6 defines a domestic worker to mean a natural person who is paid by an employer to perform work of a domestic nature and requires that an employer of a domestic worker supply the domestic worker with certain written documentation of the conditions of his or her employment and his or her rights under the law. Section 6 also requires that a domestic worker be compensated for all hours during which he or she is required to be on duty and is required to remain in the employer s household, except under certain circumstances in which the domestic worker is employed at a residential facility for a group of certain persons who require supervision, care or other assistance. Section 6 requires that a domestic worker who is paid less than one and one half times the minimum hourly wage and who does not reside in the employer s household be paid overtime wages for certain hours; however, per the Labor Commissioner, a domestic worker who resides in the employer s household is only entitled to his or her regular wages for all hours worked. Section 6 further requires that a domestic worker be allowed at least 1 day off per week and 2 consecutive days off at least once per month. Section 6 also prohibits an employer from limiting or monitoring a domestic worker s private communications or taking or holding such a worker s personal documents. Section of this bill sets limits on the amount an employer may deduct from a worker s pay for lodging provided by the employer. Section 2 of this bill revises the amounts an employer may deduct from a worker s pay for meals. Existing law provides that children under the age of 16 years employed in domestic service, farm labor or motion picture performances are exempt from limitations on working hours. (NRS 609.240) Section 3 of this bill deletes the exemption for children employed in domestic service.

Yvanna Cancela (D)*,  Mark Manendo (D)*,  Dina Neal (D)*,  David Parks (D)*,  Tick Segerblom (D)*,  Nelson Araujo (D),  Skip Daly (D),  Amber Joiner (D),  Joyce Woodhouse (D), 

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 550. (on 06/12/2017)

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