On April 1, 2013, the Nevada Labor Commissioner, Thoran Towler, made his annual announcement regarding Nevada's minimum wage. The minimum wage will remain the same for 2013: $7.25 per hour for employees who receive qualifying health benefits and $8.25 per hour for employees who do not receive qualifying health benefits. Contact Rachel Silverstein to determine whether the health benefits you provide qualify for this reduction.
This announcement also means that the requirements for paying daily overtime will not change this year. In Nevada, employees who earn less than one-and-a-half times the minimum wage are entitled to overtime for more than eight hours worked in a day (unless they have an agreement to work four ten-hour shifts per week). Thus, the daily overtime requirement applies when an employee earns less than $10.88 per hour with qualifying health benefits or $12.38 without qualifying health benefits. Of course, both Nevada and Federal law outline several classes of employees who are exempt from both daily and weekly overtime requirements.
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