{"id":9471,"date":"2011-03-29T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:36:56","slug":"proposed-bill-would-remove-overtime-pay-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/proposed-bill-would-remove-overtime-pay-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Bill Would Remove Overtime Pay Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Andrew Doughman\/Nevada News Bureau<\/em>) – Overtime pay for working more than eight hours per day would disappear under a proposal from Sen. James Settelmeyer, R-Gardnerville.<\/p>\n While employers and chambers of commerce supported the bill, Settelmeyer said he brought Senate Bill 332<\/span><\/a> on behalf of employees.<\/p>\n He said workers in his district told him they wanted more flexibility with their schedules. Currently, employers must pay employees overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the hourly wage any time an employee works more than eight hours in any 16 hour period or one calendar day.<\/p>\n The bill would keep the time and one-half rate for employees who work more than 40 hours per week.<\/p>\n Several restaurant owners testified before a Senate committee that Nevada\u2019s current overtime law<\/span><\/a> prevents flexible schedules beneficial to both employees and employers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe regulation in Nevada is onerous and ridiculous,\u201d said Larry Harvey of John Ascuaga\u2019s\u00a0Nugget casino in Sparks.<\/p>\n Carole Villardo of the Nevada Taxpayers Association testified that a survey from her group identified the daily overtime law as an \u201cimpediment\u201d to creating jobs.<\/p>\n She told the Senate Labor, Commerce and Energy Committee, which heard the bill, a story from an Elko restaurant owner.<\/p>\n \u201cIf someone does not show up for her breakfast shift the next morning, if she calls someone back in who worked the late shift, she is on overtime,\u201d Villardo said. \u201cThat is a major impact to a lot of small businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n Villardo had earlier written<\/span><\/a> that the senator\u2019s bill would put Nevada\u2019s law more in line with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Labor groups opposed the bill, saying it would not be fair to employees.<\/p>\n