Nevada

Nevada meal break rules for field crews

Nevada's daily overtime rule is unusual: whether it applies at all depends on what the individual employee earns relative to minimum wage, which makes it the one state rule we cannot configure correctly per company.

What the law requires

An uninterrupted 30-minute meal period for a continuous period of 8 hours of work.

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 608.019Read the primary source

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.

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 August 3, 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.