NV Rev Stat § 288.515 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 288 - Relations Between Governments and Public Employees|NRS 288.515 - Establishment of bargaining units; classifications of employees within bargaining units.

  1. The Board shall establish one bargaining unit for each of the following occupational groups of employees of the Executive Department:  (a) Labor, maintenance, custodial and institutional employees, including, without limitation, employees of penal and correctional institutions who are not responsible for security at those institutions.  (b) Administrative and clerical employees, including, without limitation, legal support staff and employees whose work involves general office work, or keeping or examining records and accounts.  (c) Technical aides to professional employees, including, without limitation, computer programmers, tax examiners, conservation employees and regulatory inspectors.  (d) Professional employees who do not provide health care, including, without limitation, engineers, scientists and accountants.  (e) Professional employees who provide health care, including, without limitation, physical therapists and other employees in medical and other professions related to health.  (f) Employees, other than professional employees, who provide health care and personal care, including, without limitation, employees who provide care for children.  (g) Category I peace officers.  (h) Category II peace officers.  (i) Category III peace officers.  (j) Supervisory employees from all occupational groups.   (k) Firefighters.  2. The Board shall determine the classifications of employees within each bargaining unit. The parties to a collective bargaining agreement may assign a new classification to a bargaining unit based upon the similarity of the new classification to other classifications within the bargaining unit. If the parties to a collective bargaining agreement do not agree to the assignment of a new classification to a bargaining unit, the Board must assign a new classification to a bargaining unit based upon the similarity of the new classification to other classifications within the bargaining unit.  3. As used in this section:  (a) "Category I peace officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 289.460.  (b) "Category II peace officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 289.470.  (c) "Category III peace officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 289.480.  (d) "Professional employee" means an employee engaged in work that:  (1) Is predominately intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work;  (2) Involves the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance;  (3) Is of such a character that the result accomplished or produced cannot be standardized in relation to a given period; and  (4) Requires advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily acquired through a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning, as distinguished from general academic education, an apprenticeship or training in the performance of routine mental or physical processes.  (e) "Supervisory employee" has the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 288.138.  (Added to NRS by 2019, 3735)