NRS 612.010 – Short title.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Unemployment Compensation Law. [1:129:1937; 1931 NCL § 2825.01]
NRS 612.015 – Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the words and terms defined in NRS 612.016 to 612.200, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. [2:129:1937; A 1939, 115; 1941, 412; 1943, 239; 1945, 299; 1943 NCL § 2825.02]—(NRS A 1995, 1095; 2001, 1458)
NRS 612.016 – “Administrator” defined.
“Administrator” means the Administrator of the Division. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1804)
NRS 612.017 – “American employing unit” defined.
“American employing unit” means: 1. A person who is a resident of the United States; 2. A partnership, if two-thirds or more of the partners are residents of the United States; 3. A trust if all of the trustees are residents of the United States; or 4. A corporation organized under the laws of the […]
NRS 612.025 – “Base period” defined.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and in NRS 612.344, “base period” means the first 4 of the last 5 completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of a person’s benefit year, except that if one calendar quarter of the base period so established has been used in a previous determination of […]
NRS 612.030 – “Benefit year” defined.
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 612.344, with respect to any person, “benefit year” means the 52 consecutive weeks beginning with the first day of the week with respect to which a valid claim is filed, and thereafter the 52 consecutive weeks beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to […]
NRS 612.035 – “Benefits” defined.
“Benefits” means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to his or her unemployment. [2:129:1937; renumbered 2.2:129:1937, 1945, 299; 1943 NCL § 2825.02]
NRS 612.040 – “Calendar quarter” defined.
“Calendar quarter” means the period of 3 consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the equivalent thereof as the Administrator may prescribe by regulation, excluding, however, any calendar quarter or portion thereof which occurs before January 1, 1938. [2:129:1937; renumbered 2.5:129:1937, 1945, 299; 1943 NCL § 2825.02]—(NRS […]
NRS 612.045 – “Contributions” defined.
“Contributions” means the money payments to the Unemployment Compensation Fund required by this chapter, but does not include reimbursement payments in lieu of contributions as provided in NRS 612.553. [2:129:1937; renumbered 2.4:129:1937, 1945, 299; 1943 NCL § 2825.02]—(NRS A 1973, 1355; 1977, 828)
NRS 612.049 – “Division” defined.
“Division” means the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1804)
NRS 612.055 – “Employer” defined.
“Employer” means: 1. Any employing unit which for any calendar quarter has paid or is liable to pay wages of $225 or more, and which employs during that period one or more persons in an employment subject to this chapter. 2. Any person or employing unit which acquired the organization, trade or business, or substantially […]
NRS 612.057 – “Employer”: Crew leaders who furnish persons to perform agricultural labor.
1. As used in this section, “crew leader” means any person who: (a) Furnishes persons to perform agricultural labor for any other person; (b) Pays the persons furnished by him or her, either on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another person; and (c) Has not entered into a written agreement with […]
NRS 612.060 – “Employing unit” defined.
1. “Employing unit” means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor thereof, or the legal representative of a deceased person, which has or subsequent to January 1, 1936, had in its […]
NRS 612.065 – “Employment” defined.
Subject to the provisions of NRS 612.070 to 612.145, inclusive, “employment” means service, including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. [Part 2:129:1937; renumbered in error 2.19:129:1937, 1945, 299; A 1949, 257; 1951, 253, 474; renumbered 2.9:129:1937 and A 1955, 698]—(NRS A 2001, […]
NRS 612.070 – “Employment”: Services included.
“Employment” includes: 1. A person’s entire service, performed within or both within and without this State if: (a) The service is localized in this State; (b) The service is not localized in any state but some of the service is performed in this State and: (1) The base of operations, or, if there is no […]
NRS 612.075 – “Employment”: Services performed entirely outside State by resident; election; approval by Administrator.
Services not covered under NRS 612.070 and performed entirely without this State, with respect to no part of which contributions are required and paid under an unemployment compensation law of any other state or the Federal Government, shall be deemed to be employment subject to this chapter if the person performing the services is a […]
NRS 612.080 – “Employment”: Services deemed localized within State.
Service shall be deemed to be localized within a state if: 1. The service is performed entirely within such state; or 2. The service is performed both within and without such state, but the service performed without such state is incidental to the individual’s service within the state; for example, is temporary or transitory in […]
NRS 612.085 – “Employment”: Services deemed employment unless specific facts shown.
Services performed by a person for wages shall be deemed to be employment subject to this chapter unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Administrator that: 1. The person has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of the services, both under his or her contract […]
NRS 612.090 – “Employment”: Certain agricultural labor included.
1. “Employment” includes agricultural labor if: (a) The services are performed in the employ of a person who: (1) Paid cash wages of $20,000 or more during any calendar quarter of the current calendar year or preceding calendar year to persons employed in agricultural labor, including, without limitation, an alien described in subsection 4 without […]
NRS 612.095 – “Employment”: Domestic service in private home excluded; exception.
“Employment” does not include domestic service in a private home unless the amount paid in cash wages by an employer or employing unit is $1,000 or more for service performed in any calendar quarter of the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year. [Part 2:129:1937; renumbered in error 2.19:129:1937, 1945, 299; A 1949, 257; […]