The Nevada legislature didn’t intend to incorporate the federal Portal-to-Portal Act exceptions for compensable work into the state’s wage and hour laws, Nevada’s high court said Thursday.
The federal statute provides a “catchall type of exception” for certain activities that can’t be compensated, whereas Nevada’s laws contemplate “only narrow exceptions to compensable work activity,” Justice Ron D. Parraguirre wrote for the Nevada Supreme Court.
The opinion comes in response to a question certified by a Nevada federal judge in a case brought by a former Amazon.com Services LLC employee, who claims the company owes him and a class of other ...
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