Nevada
Nevada meal break rules for field crews
Nevada's daily overtime rule is unusual: whether it applies at all depends on what each employee earns relative to minimum wage, and on whether they have agreed to four ten-hour days - so it is decided worker by worker.
What the law requires
An uninterrupted 30-minute meal period for a continuous period of 8 hours of work.
What it means on a crew
Inclusive, unlike California - a continuous period of exactly 8 hours owes a meal. Our own engine had this wrong until August 2026 and a test asserted the error as correct.
What Punchless does
The threshold is now inclusive and asserted by test at exactly 8.0 hours. A missed meal is reported, but Nevada law prices no premium for it, so none is added to pay.
Every rule we enforce is published with the statute behind it and the test that checks it, so this is a claim you can verify rather than take on faith.
Other Nevada rules
Verified against primary sources on October 1, 2026. Statutes and wage orders change, and some of this is genuinely unsettled - re-check the source before relying on it. Punchless is not a law firm and this is not legal advice.