# Nevada — Meal and rest break requirements by US state — hours worked before a break is owed, its length, and whether it's paid, quoted from the state's own labor law

For Nevada, meal break rule is An employer shall not employ an employee for a continuous period of 8 hours without permitting the employee to have a meal period of at least one-half hour; rest break rule is The duration of the rest periods shall be based on the total hours worked daily at the rate of 10 minutes for each 4 hours or major fraction thereof; statute or regulation is NRS 608.019, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Nevada _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Meal break rule:** An employer shall not employ an employee for a continuous period of 8 hours without permitting the employee to have a meal period of at least one-half hour _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Rest break rule:** The duration of the rest periods shall be based on the total hours worked daily at the rate of 10 minutes for each 4 hours or major fraction thereof _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Statute or regulation:** NRS 608.019 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> An employer shall not employ an employee for a continuous period of 8 hours without permitting the employee to have a meal period of at least one-half hour. No period of less than 30 minutes interrupts a continuous period of work for the purposes of this subsection.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Meal break rule

> An employer shall not employ an employee for a continuous period of 8 hours without permitting the employee to have a meal period of at least one-half hour. No period of less than 30 minutes interrupts a continuous period of work for the purposes of this subsection.

### Rest break rule

> Every employer shall authorize and permit all his or her employees to take rest periods, which, insofar as practicable, shall be in the middle of each work period. The duration of the rest periods shall be based on the total hours worked daily at the rate of 10 minutes for each 4 hours or major fraction thereof.

### Statute or regulation

> NRS 608.019 Periods for meals and rest.

## Source

- https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-608.html#NRS608Sec019

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2027-09-02.
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