Chapter 48 — LABOR
917 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3601 Act, how cited.
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Sections 48-3601 to 48-3609 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3602 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act: (1) Athletic grant-in-aid means the money given to a student-athlete by a postsecondary institution for tuition, fees, room, board, and textbooks as consideration for the student-athlete's participa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3603 Name, image, or likeness rights or athletic reputation; compensation of student-athlete; effect; limitations.
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(1) No postsecondary institution shall uphold any rule, requirement, standard, or limitation that prevents a student-athlete from fully participating in an intercollegiate sport for such postsecondary institution because such student-athlete earns or intends to earn compensation …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3604 Name, image, or likeness rights or athletic reputation; contract or agreement; disclosure requirements; treatment.
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(1) Any student-athlete who enters into a contract or agreement that provides compensation for the use of such student-athlete's name, image, or likeness rights or athletic reputation shall disclose such contract or agreement to an official of the postsecondary institution for wh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3605 Name, image, and likeness rights or athletic reputation; contract or agreement, restrictions; conflict with team contract, effect.
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(1) No student-athlete shall enter into a contract or agreement with a sponsor that provides compensation to the student-athlete for use of the student-athlete's name, image, and likeness rights or athletic reputation if (a) such contract or agreement requires such student-athlet…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3606 Student-athlete; obtain professional representation; effect; postsecondary institutions; education and training.
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(1) No postsecondary institution or collegiate athletic association shall penalize a student-athlete or prevent a student-athlete from fully participating in an intercollegiate sport because such student-athlete obtains professional representation in relation to a contract or leg…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3607 Act; effect on contracts.
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(1) The Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act shall not be applied in a manner that violates any contract in effect prior to the date determined by a postsecondary institution pursuant to section 48-3609 with regard to such postsecondary institution or any …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3608 Civil action authorized; damages, procedure; limitation.
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(1) A student-athlete or a postsecondary institution aggrieved by a violation of the Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act may bring a civil action against the postsecondary institution or collegiate athletic association committing such violation. (2) A pla…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3609 Act, applicability.
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Each postsecondary institution shall determine a date on or before July 1, 2023, upon which the Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act shall begin to apply to such postsecondary institution and the student-athletes who participate in an intercollegiate sport…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3701 Act, how cited.
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Sections 48-3701 to 48-3704 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3702 Legislative findings.
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The Legislature finds that: (1) In order to promote strong economic development policies, good jobs, growing businesses, and thriving communities, it is the intent of the Legislature that the state support the continued planning and development of the Nebraska Statewide Workforce…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3703 Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System.
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The Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System allows Nebraska to: (1) Provide workforce-outcomes data to postsecondary institutions to guide program, educator, and institutional improvement; (2) Support students and parents in understanding what education, train…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3704 Memorandum of understanding; duties; report.
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(1) The Department of Labor shall execute a memorandum of understanding with the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System before December 31, 2020, to ensure the exchange of available Department of Labor data throughout the prekindergarten to postsecondary educ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3801 Act, how cited; declaration of purpose.
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(1) Sections 48-3801 to 48-3811 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. (2) The purpose of the act is to provide eligible employees in Nebraska the right to earn paid sick time for personal or family health needs and provide certain pr…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3802 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act: (1) Department means the Department of Labor; (2) Employ means to permit to work by an employer pursuant to an employment relationship; (3) Employee means any individual employed by an employer, but does not includ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3803 Accrual and carryover of paid sick time; paid sick time following transfer or return after separation from employment.
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(1) All employees shall begin accruing paid sick time after eighty hours of consecutive employment, at which point employees shall then accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick time for every thirty hours worked. Unless the employer selects a higher limit, this section does not …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3804 Use of paid sick time; employee notice and documentation; multi-employer paid sick time fund, plan, or program.
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(1) Paid sick time shall be provided to an employee by an employer for: (a) An employee's mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; an employee's need for medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; or an empl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3805 Exercise of rights protected; retaliatory personnel action prohibited.
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(1) It shall be unlawful for an employer or any other person to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right protected under the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. (2) An employer shall not take retaliatory personnel action a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3806 Notice and posting.
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(1) Employers shall give employees written notice of the following at the commencement of employment or by September 15, 2025, whichever is later: That beginning October 1, 2025, employees are entitled to paid sick time; the amount of paid sick time; the terms of its use guarante…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3807 Department of Labor; enforcement and implementation powers; rules and regulations.
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(1) The department shall be responsible for implementation and enforcement of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the act. (2) The Commissioner of Labor may subpoena records and …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3808 Act; enforcement.
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(1) The Commissioner of Labor shall issue a citation to an employer when an investigation reveals that the employer may have violated the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. (2) When a citation is issued, the commissioner shall notify the employer of the proposed admini…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3809 Confidentiality and nondisclosure.
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(1) Unless otherwise required by law, an employer shall not require disclosure of the details of an employee's or an employee's family member's health information as a condition of providing paid sick time under the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. (2) Unless otherwi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3810 No effect on more generous paid sick time policies or laws; nonwaiver of rights and remedies.
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(1) The Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act provides minimum requirements pertaining to paid sick time, and nothing in the act shall be construed to: (a) Prohibit an employer from the adoption or retention of a paid sick time policy more generous than the one required by…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3811 Severability.
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If any section in sections 48-3801 to 48-3811 or any part of any section is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the declaration shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3901 Department of Labor; prevention of human trafficking; posters; placement; duties.
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(1) The Department of Labor shall develop or select informational posters for placement around the state. The posters shall be in English, Spanish, and any other language deemed appropriate by the department. The posters shall include a toll-free telephone number a person may cal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3902 Training regarding issues in human trafficking.
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(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, juvenile detention center staff, and others involved in the juvenile justice system and the criminal justice system and other relevant officials be provided mandatory tra…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-3903 Hotel or public lodging establishment; training and policies; liability.
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(1) For purposes of this section: (a) Hotel means a facility in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain sleeping accommodations. Hotel includes hotels, motels, tourist homes, campgrounds, courts, lodging houses, inns, state-operated hotels, and nonprofit hotels but does…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4001 Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, how cited.
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Sections 48-4001 to 48-4006 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4002 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act: (1) Business closing means the permanent or temporary shutdown of a single site of employment of one or more facilities or operating units that will result in an employment loss for one hundred or mor…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4003 Notice of business closing or mass layoff; requirements; contents; delivery.
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(1)(a) An employer who plans a business closing or a mass layoff shall not order such action until the end of a ninety-day period which begins after the employer serves written notice of such action to the affected employees or their representatives and to the department. However…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4004 Notice of business closing or mass layoff; requirements; exceptions.
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(1) If a business closing or mass layoff constitutes a strike or constitutes a lockout not intended to evade the requirements of the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, notice is not required to be given by the employer. The Nebraska Worker Adjustment and …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4005 Act; enforcement; violation; penalty.
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(1) The department shall enforce the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. (2) An employer who violates section 48-4003 shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each day of the violation. (3) The civil penalty provided for…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4006 Rules and regulations.
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The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-401 Water closets; duty of employer to provide.
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Every factory, mill, workshop, mercantile or mechanical establishment or other building, where one or more persons are employed, shall be provided within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of water closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons e…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-402 Dressing rooms; duty to provide; rights of lessee.
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In factories, mills, workshops, mercantile or mechanical establishments, or other places where the labor performed by the operator is of such a character that it becomes necessary to change the clothing, wholly or in part, before leaving the building at the close of the day's wor…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-403 Ventilation; dust and fumes; fans required.
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If in any of the aforesaid places any process is carried on by which dust or fumes are caused, which may be inhaled by the persons employed therein, or if the air shall become exhausted or impure, there shall be provided a fan or other such mechanical device as will substantially…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-404 Sanitation; duty of employer.
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All of the aforesaid places shall be kept clean and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or nuisance, and shall be ventilated and kept in a sanitary condition. The Department of Labor or any person authorized by the department may require such changes or additions to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-405 Grinding machines; dust; blowers required.
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All persons, companies or corporations operating any factory or workshop where grinding wheels, or grinding machines, emery wheels or emery belts of any description are used, whether solid emery, leather covered, felt, canvas, linen, paper, cotton or wheels or belts rolled or coa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-406 Emery wheels and grindstones; use and operation.
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No emery wheels or grindstones in any factory, mill or workshop, shall be used when known to the person using the same to be cracked or otherwise defective, nor operated at a greater speed than indicated or guaranteed by the manufacturer of such emery wheel or grindstone.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-407 Emery wheels and grindstones; hoods or hoppers required.
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Every emery wheel and grindstone shall be fitted with a sheet or cast iron hood or hopper, of such form so adjusted that the dust or refuse therefrom will fall or be thrown into such hood or hopper by centrifugal force, and be carried off by the current of air into a suction pipe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-408 Emery wheels; suction pipes required; capacity.
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Every such wheel six inches or less in diameter shall be provided with a three-inch suction pipe; wheels six inches to twenty-four inches in diameter, with a four-inch suction pipe; wheels from twenty-four inches to thirty-six inches in diameter, with a five-inch suction pipe; an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-409 Machinery; safety devices required.
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Every person operating a plant where machinery is used, shall provide such guards, boxing, screens or other appliances as will protect employees against injury from belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums, saws, cogs, electric currents, molten metal or hot liquid. He shall a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-410 Revolving machines; screens required.
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A metal or other suitable screen shall be placed around each laundry extractor or other exposed high-speed revolving machinery.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4101 Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act, how cited.
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Sections 48-4101 to 48-4109 shall be known and may be cited as the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4102 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act: (1) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor; (2) Department means the Department of Labor; (3)(a) Direct services means nursing services or other services provided to consumers through person-to-person contact…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4103 Health care staffing agency; registration; application; procedure; appeal.
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(1) A health care staffing agency operating in the state shall register annually with the department. As a condition of eligibility for registration, the applicant shall certify that the health care staffing agency is in compliance with section 48-4105. (2) An applicant for regis…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4104 Health care staffing agency; duties.
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(1) A health care staffing agency shall: (a) Ensure that each worker complies with all applicable requirements relating to the federal and state licensing, certification, registration, and health care requirements and qualifications for personnel providing direct services in a he…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4105 Health care staffing agency; prohibited acts.
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(1) A health care staffing agency shall not: (a) Include in any contract with a worker or a health care entity a noncompete clause restricting in any manner the employment opportunities of a worker; or (b) In any contract with a worker or a health care entity, require payment of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4106 Violations; civil penalty; revocation of registration; notice of citation; appeal.
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(1) If the commissioner determines that a health care staffing agency (a) failed to register as required by the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act, (b) violated section 48-4104 or 48-4105, (c) failed to provide documentation pursuant to section 48-4107, or (d) knowingly…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4107 Commissioner of Labor; investigations; random audits; subpoena witnesses and records.
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(1) The commissioner shall establish a system for the public to report complaints against a health care staffing agency or worker regarding compliance with the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act. The commissioner shall investigate any complaint received. (2) The commiss…