Assembly Bill No. 48–Assemblywoman Giunchigliani

 

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AN ACT relating to labor; clarifying that the duties of the Labor Commissioner include the enforcement of certain provisions related to labor without regard to whether a person is lawfully or unlawfully employed; clarifying that the provisions relating to compensation, wages and hours include persons unlawfully employed by revising the definition of “employee”; clarifying that the provisions relating to occupational safety and health include persons unlawfully employed by revising the definition of “employee”; clarifying that the provisions relating to public works projects include persons unlawfully employed by revising the definition of “workman”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1.  NRS 607.160 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    607.160 1.  The Labor Commissioner:

    (a) Shall enforce all labor laws of the State of Nevada[the] :

        (1) Without regard to whether an employee or workman is

lawfully or unlawfully employed; and

        (2) The enforcement of which is not specifically and

exclusively vested in any other officer, board or commission . [;

and]

    (b) May adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of

paragraph (a).

    2.  Whenever after due inquiry the Labor Commissioner

believes that a person financially unable to employ counsel has a

valid and enforceable claim for wages, commissions or other

demands, he may present the facts to the Attorney General showing:

    (a) The names of the claimant and his alleged debtor.

    (b) A description and the location of the property on which the

labor was performed, if the claim is for wages, or which is the office

or place of business of the debtor if the claim is for a commission,

and the right, title and interest of the debtor therein.

    (c) Other property, if any, owned by the debtor and the probable

value thereof.

    (d) The time the claimant began and the time he ceased the

labor.

    (e) The number of days’ labor performed by him during the

employment and the rate of wages or commission arrangement and

terms of the employment.

    (f) The date or dates and the amount, if any, paid on the claim.


    (g) The balance due, owing and unpaid on the claim.

    (h) The date on which a demand for payment was made upon

the debtor or his agent or representative, and the response, if any, to

that demand.

    (i) The names of the witnesses upon whom the claimant expects

to rely to provide facts and to what facts each of the witnesses is

expected to testify.

    3.  The Attorney General shall prosecute the claim if he

determines that the claim is valid and enforceable.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 608.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    608.010  “Employee” includes both male and female persons[.]

in the service of an employer under any appointment or contract

of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written,

whether lawfully or unlawfully employed.

    Sec. 3.  NRS 618.085 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    618.085  “Employee” means every person who is required,

permitted or directed by any employer to engage in any

employment, or to go to work or be at any time in any place of

employment[.] , under any appointment or contract of hire or

apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether

lawfully or unlawfully employed.

    Sec. 4.  NRS 338.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    338.010  As used in this chapter:

    1.  “Day labor” means all cases where public bodies, their

officers, agents or employees, hire, supervise and pay the wages

thereof directly to a workman or workmen employed by them on

public works by the day and not under a contract in writing.

    2.  “Design-build contract” means a contract between a public

body and a design-build team in which the design-build team agrees

to design and construct a public work.

    3.  “Design-build team” means an entity that consists of:

    (a) At least one person who is licensed as a general engineering

contractor or a general building contractor pursuant to chapter 624

of NRS; and

    (b) For a public work that consists of:

        (1) A building and its site, at least one person who holds a

certificate of registration to practice architecture pursuant to chapter

623 of NRS.

        (2) Anything other than a building and its site, at least one

person who holds a certificate of registration to practice architecture

pursuant to chapter 623 of NRS or is licensed as a professional

engineer pursuant to chapter 625 of NRS.

    4.  “Design professional” means:

    (a) A person who is licensed as a professional engineer pursuant

to chapter 625 of NRS;


    (b) A person who is licensed as a professional land surveyor

pursuant to chapter 625 of NRS;

    (c) A person who holds a certificate of registration to engage in

the practice of architecture pursuant to chapter 623 of NRS;

    (d) A person who holds a certificate of registration to engage in

the practice of landscape architecture pursuant to chapter 623A of

NRS; or

    (e) A business entity that engages in the practice of professional

engineering, land surveying, architecture or landscape architecture.

    5.  “Eligible bidder” means a person who is:

    (a) Found to be a responsible and responsive contractor by a

local government which requests bids for a public work in

accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 338.1373; or

    (b) Determined by a public body which awarded a contract for a

public work pursuant to NRS 338.1375 to 338.139, inclusive, to be

qualified to bid on that contract pursuant to NRS 338.1379 or was

exempt from meeting such qualifications pursuant to

NRS 338.1383.

    6.  “General contractor” means a person who is licensed to

conduct business in one, or both, of the following branches of the

contracting business:

    (a) General engineering contracting, as described in subsection 2

of NRS 624.215.

    (b) General building contracting, as described in subsection 3 of

NRS 624.215.

    7.  “Local government” means every political subdivision or

other entity which has the right to levy or receive money from ad

valorem or other taxes or any mandatory assessments, and includes,

without limitation, counties, cities, towns, boards, school districts

and other districts organized pursuant to chapters 244A, 309, 318,

379, 474, 541, 543 and 555 of NRS, NRS 450.550 to 450.750,

inclusive, and any agency or department of a county or city which

prepares a budget separate from that of the parent political

subdivision.

    8.  “Offense” means failing to:

    (a) Pay the prevailing wage required pursuant to this chapter;

    (b) Pay the contributions for unemployment compensation

required pursuant to chapter 612 of NRS;

    (c) Provide and secure compensation for employees required

pursuant to chapters 616A to 617, inclusive, of NRS; or

    (d) Comply with subsection 4 or 5 of NRS 338.070.

    9.  “Prime contractor” means a person who:

    (a) Contracts to construct an entire project;

    (b) Coordinates all work performed on the entire project;

    (c) Uses his own workforce to perform all or a part of the

construction, repair or reconstruction of the project; and


    (d) Contracts for the services of any subcontractor or

independent contractor or is responsible for payment to any

contracted subcontractors or independent contractors.

The term includes, without limitation, a general contractor or a

specialty contractor who is authorized to bid on a project pursuant to

NRS 338.139 or 338.148.

    10.  “Public body” means the State, county, city, town, school

district or any public agency of this state or its political subdivisions

sponsoring or financing a public work.

    11.  “Public work” means any project for the new construction,

repair or reconstruction of:

    (a) A project financed in whole or in part from public money

for:

        (1) Public buildings;

        (2) Jails and prisons;

        (3) Public roads;

        (4) Public highways;

        (5) Public streets and alleys;

        (6) Public utilities which are financed in whole or in part by

public money;

        (7) Publicly owned water mains and sewers;

        (8) Public parks and playgrounds;

        (9) Public convention facilities which are financed at least in

part with public funds; and

        (10) All other publicly owned works and property whose cost

as a whole exceeds $20,000. Each separate unit that is a part of a

project is included in the cost of the project to determine whether a

project meets that threshold.

    (b) A building for the University and Community College

System of Nevada of which 25 percent or more of the costs of the

building as a whole are paid from money appropriated by this state

or from federal money.

    12.  “Specialty contractor” means a person who is licensed to

conduct business as described in subsection 4 of NRS 624.215.

    13.  “Stand-alone underground utility project” means an

underground utility project that is not integrated into a larger

project, including, without limitation:

    (a) An underground sewer line or an underground pipeline for

the conveyance of water, including facilities appurtenant thereto;

and

    (b) A project for the construction or installation of a storm drain,

including facilities appurtenant thereto,

that is not located at the site of a public work for the design and

construction of which a public body is authorized to contract with a

design-build team pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 338.1711.

    14.  “Wages” means:


    (a) The basic hourly rate of pay; and

    (b) The amount of pension, health and welfare, vacation and

holiday pay, the cost of apprenticeship training or other similar

programs , or other bona fide fringe benefits which are a benefit to

the workman.

    15.  “Workman” means a skilled mechanic, skilled workman,

semiskilled mechanic, semiskilled workman or unskilled workman

[.] in the service of a contractor or subcontractor under any

appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or

implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed.

The term does not include a design professional.

    Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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