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October 14, 2025
Several important changes to employment laws in Nevada became effective on October 1, 2025. Here are the highlights:
Working Time for Minors (2025 NV A.B. 215)
Nevada Assembly Bill 215 lowers the weekly limit on working time for minors 16 years of age or younger FROM 48 hours in any one week TO 40 hours.
The Bill also prohibits minors 16 to 18 years of age from working between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on any night immediately preceding a school day unless they meet certain exemptions. Those exemptions include emancipated minors, lifeguards, arcade employees, stage or theatrical employees, or minors working on a farm.
The Bill further requires Nevada’s labor commissioner to prepare an abstract of child labor laws. Employers must post that abstract in a conspicuous place in the workplace. The notice also must be accessible online.
Employer Takeaways: Post the labor commissioner’s abstract as required and ensure that schedulers and managers are aware of the new working time restrictions for minors.
Leave for Certain Emergency Volunteers (2025 NV A.B. 422)
Nevada Assembly Bill 422 requires employers to permit employees who are volunteer members of the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol to take an unpaid leave of absence from work (without requiring employees to exhaust any other leave) for training (not to exceed ten workdays in a year) or emergency missions (not to exceed 30 workdays in a year) without loss of position, seniority, or accrued leave or benefits. Emergency missions include, but are not limited to, search and rescue and disaster response activities.
When requesting leave, employees must provide to their employers both (1) certification that they have been authorized by the U.S. Air Force, the Governor, or a political subdivision of Nevada to train for or respond to an emergency mission; and (2) verification from the Civil Air Patrol of the emergency need for the employees’ volunteer service.
Violators of this new law may be liable in a civil action for damages equal to the employees’ lost wages and benefits, as well as reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
Employer Takeaways: Update your leave of absence policies to address this new law and train your Human Resources personnel and managers on its requirements.
Liability for Delivery Network Companies (2025 NV AB 523)
Nevada Assembly Bill 523 reduces the required minimum insurance coverage and establishes liability protections for delivery network companies. A “delivery network company” is a business that uses a digital network to connect a customer to a driver to provide delivery services.
The Bill lowers the amount of insurance required for bodily injury to or death of one or more persons and injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident or motor vehicle crash that occurs while the driver is providing transportation services FROM $1.5 million TO $1 million.
The Bill further provides that delivery network companies are not vicariously liable (a legal doctrine where one party can be held responsible for the wrongful actions of another, even if they were not directly involved) under any theory of liability or duty of care for any act or omission of a driver who harms a person or property if the company maintains an insurance policy of not less than $1 million.
Delivery Network Company Takeaways: Ensure that you carry insurance of at least $1 million on your drivers to cap your liability for their acts or omissions.
The author of this article, Patricia Tsipras, is a member of the Bar of Pennsylvania. This article is designed to provide one perspective regarding recent legal developments, and is not intended to serve as legal advice in Pennsylvania, Nevada, or any other jurisdiction, nor does it establish an attorney-client relationship with any reader of the article where one does not exist. Always consult an attorney with specific legal issues.
