Nevada meal and rest period law is located in the following sections of the Nevada Revised Statutes.

NRS 608.019 Periods for meals and rest.

1. 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.

2. Every employer shall authorize and permit all his 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. Rest periods need not be authorized however for employees whose total daily work time is less than 3 and one-half hours. Authorized rest period shall be counted as hours worked, for which there shall be no deduction from wages.

3. This section does not apply to:

(a) Situations where only one person is employed at a particular place of employment.

(b) Employees included within the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement.

4. An employer may apply to the labor commissioner for an exemption from providing to all or to one or more defined categories of his employees one or more of the benefits conferred by this section. The labor commissioner may grant the exemption if he believes the employer has shown sufficient evidence that business necessity precludes providing such benefits. Any exemption so granted shall apply to members of either sex.

5. The labor commissioner may by regulation exempt a defined category of employers from providing to all or to one or more defined categories of their employees one or more of the benefits conferred by this section, upon his own motion or upon the application of an association of employers. Each such application shall be considered at a hearing and may be granted if the labor commissioner finds that business necessity precludes providing that particular benefit or benefits to the employees affected. Any exemption so granted shall apply to members of either sex.

Railroad
NRS 705.210 Employees’ hours of employment limited; penalties.

1. As used in this section:

(a) "Employees" means persons actually engaged in or connected with the movement of any train.

(b) "Railroad" includes all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any common carrier operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract agreement or lease.

2. The provisions of this section apply to any common carrier or carriers, their officers, agents and employees engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by railroad in the State of Nevada.

3. It is unlawful for any common carrier, its officers or agents, subject to this section, to require or permit any employee subject to this section to be or remain on duty for a longer period than 16 consecutive hours, and whenever any such employee of such common carrier has been continuously on duty for 16 hours he must be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least 10 consecutive hours off duty. No such employee who has been on duty 16 hours in the aggregate in any 24-hour period must be required or permitted to continue or again go on duty without having had at least 8 consecutive hours off duty.

4. No employee who, by the use of the telegraph or telephone or other electrical device, dispatches, reports, transmits, receives or delivers orders or who from towers, offices, places and stations operates signals or switches or similar mechanical devices controlling, pertaining to, or affecting the movement of trains of more than two cars must be required or permitted to be or remain on duty in any 24-hour period for a longer period than 8 hours, which must be wholly within the limits of a continuous shift and upon the completion of that period the employee must not be required or permitted again to go on duty until the expiration of 16 hours. This subsection does not apply to employees who, in case of emergency, use the telephone to obtain orders or information governing the movement of trains. In case of emergency, such employees may be permitted to be and remain on duty for 4 additional hours in a 24-hour period of not exceeding 3 days in any week.

5. Any common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, requiring or permitting any employee to go, be or remain on duty in violation of subsections 3 and 4 shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.

6. In all prosecutions under this section the common carrier shall be deemed to have had knowledge of all acts of its officers and agents.

7. The provisions of this section do not apply:

(a) In any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God.

(b) Where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officers or agents in charge of such employee at the time the employee left the terminal and which could not have been foreseen.

(c) To the crews of wrecking or relief trains.

(d) To railroads not maintaining a regular night train schedule.

8. The public utilities commission of Nevada shall:

(a) Execute and enforce the provisions of this section, and all powers granted by law to the public utilities commission of Nevada are hereby extended to it in the execution of this section.

(b) Lodge with the proper district attorneys information of any violations of this section which may come to its knowledge.

NRS 201.232 Breast feeding: Legislative intent; authorized in any public or private location where mother is authorized to be.

1. The legislatre finds and declares that:

(a) The medical profession in the United States recommends that children from birth to the age of 1 year should be breast fed, unless under particular circumstances it is medically inadvisable.

(b) Despite the recommendation of the medical profession, statistics reveal a declining percentage of mothers who are choosing to breast feed their babies.

(c) Many new mothers are now choosing to use formula rather than to breast feed even before they leave the hospital, and only a small percentage of all mothers are still breast feeding when their babies are 6 months old.

(d) In addition to the benefit of improving bonding between mothers and their babies, breast feeding offers better nutrition, digestion and immunity for babies than does formula feeding, and it may increase the intelligence quotient of a child. Babies who are breast fed have lower rates of death, meningitis, childhood leukemia and other cancers, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, diarrheal diseases, otitis media, allergies, obesity and developmental delays.

(e) Breast feeding also provides significant benefits to the health of the mother, including protection against breast cancer and other cancers, osteoporosis and infections of the urinary tract. The incidence of breast cancer in the United States might be reduced by 25 percent if every woman breast fed all her children until they reached the age of 2 years.

(f) The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have established as one of their major goals for the decade the encouragement of breast feeding.

(g) The social constraints of modern society weigh against the choice of breast feeding and lead new mothers with demanding time schedules to opt for formula feeding to avoid embarrassment, social ostracism or criminal prosecution.

(h) Any genuine promotion of family values should encourage public acceptance of this most basic act of nurture between a mother and her baby, and no mother should be made to feel incriminated or socially ostracized for breast feeding her child.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a mother may breast feed her child in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother’s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding.