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NE Code § 48-1116 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1116 - Equal Opportunity Commission; members; appointment; term; quorum; compensation; executive director; representation.

48-1116.  Equal Opportunity Commission; members; appointment; term; quorum; compensation; executive director; representation.There is hereby established an Equal Opportunity Commission to consist of seven members to be appointed by the Governor. Terms of members shall be three years. As the terms of the members expire, the Governor shall appoint or reappoint the members of the commission for terms of three years to succeed the members whose terms expire. The commission shall elect one member to serve as chairperson of the commission.Four members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business thereof. Any action of the commission shall require at least four votes. A vacancy in the commission shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the commission.Members of the commission shall receive fifty dollars per day for their services and shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177. Reimbursement shall be for not more than two regular meetings per month and not more than three training sessions for any one fiscal year. Any member of the commission may be removed by the Governor for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office after being given a written statement of the charges and an opportunity to be heard thereon.The commission shall establish and maintain its principal office in the city of Lincoln and such other offices within the state as it may deem necessary. The commission may meet and function at any place within the state. The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall be directly responsible to the commission. The executive director may appoint such assistants, clerks, agents, and other employees as such executive director may deem necessary, fix their compensation within the limitations provided by law, and prescribe duties of such employees. The executive director may appoint additional staff as the commission deems necessary.The Attorney General shall represent and appear for the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act, the Nebraska Fair Housing Act, or section 20-123, 20-124, or 20-132 and shall aid in any investigation or hearing had under either act or any of such sections. The commission shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 16, p. 789;   Laws 1969, c. 120, § 22, p. 552;   Laws 1977, LB 161, § 10;   Laws 1981, LB 204, § 84;   Laws 1989, LB 175, § 1;   Laws 1991, LB 825, § 49;  Laws 2020, LB381, § 39.  Cross References  Nebraska Fair Housing Act, see section 20-301.
NE Code § 48-1120.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1120.01 - Action in district court; deadline; notice by commission.

48-1120.01.  Action in district court; deadline; notice by commission.The deadline for filing an action directly in the district court is ninety days after the complainant receives notice of the last action the commission will take on the complaint or charge. When entering the last action on the complaint or charge, the commission shall issue written notice of such ninety-day deadline to the complainant by certified mail, return receipt requested. The last action on the complaint or charge includes the issuance of the final order after hearing, the determination of reasonable cause or no reasonable cause, and any other administrative action which ends the commission's involvement with the complaint or charge.Source Laws 2003, LB 701, § 1.
NE Code § 48-1121 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1121 - Posting excerpts of law.

48-1121.  Posting excerpts of law.Every employer, employment agency, and labor organization subject to the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act shall post in a conspicuous place or places on his, her, or its premises a notice to be prepared or approved by the commission which shall set forth excerpts of the act and such other relevant information which the commission deems necessary to explain the act.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 21, p. 796;   Laws 1993, LB 360, § 16.
NE Code § 48-1122 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1122 - Contracts with state and political subdivisions; requirements.

48-1122.  Contracts with state and political subdivisions; requirements.Every contract to which the state or any of its political subdivisions is a party shall contain a provision requiring the contractor and his subcontractors not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment, to be employed in the performance of such contract, with respect to his hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of his race, color, religion, sex, disability, or national origin.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 22, p. 797;   Laws 1973, LB 266, § 13.
NE Code § 48-1123 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1123 - Violations; penalty.

48-1123.  Violations; penalty.Any person, employer, labor organization, or employment agency who or which willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with the commission or any of its members or representatives in the performance of duty under the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act or willfully violates an order of the commission shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor. Procedure for the review of the order shall not be deemed to be such willful conduct.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 23, p. 797;   Laws 1977, LB 40, § 302;   Laws 1993, LB 360, § 17.
NE Code § 48-1124 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1124 - Construction of act.

48-1124.  Construction of act.Nothing contained in the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act shall be deemed to repeal any of the provisions of the civil rights law, any other law of this state, or any municipal ordinance relating to discrimination because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, or national origin.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 24, p. 797;   Laws 1973, LB 266, § 14;   Laws 1993, LB 360, § 18.
NE Code § 48-1125 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1125 - Act, how cited.

48-1125.  Act, how cited.Sections 48-1101 to 48-1125 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act.Source   Laws 1965, c. 276, § 26, p. 797;   Laws 1993, LB 360, § 19;  Laws 2003, LB 701, § 3.
NE Code § 48-1126 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1126 - State and governmental agencies; suits against.

48-1126.  State and governmental agencies; suits against.The state and governmental agencies created by the state may be sued upon claims arising under the Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act in the same manner as provided by such law for suits against other employers.Source   Laws 1979, LB 67, § 2;   Laws 1983, LB 447, § 74.  Cross References  Nebraska Fair Employment Practice Act, see section 48-1125.
NE Code § 48-1201 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1201 - Policy.

48-1201.  Policy.It is declared to be the policy of this state (1) to establish a minimum wage for all workers at levels consistent with their health, efficiency and general well-being, and (2) to safeguard existing minimum wage compensation standards which are adequate to maintain the health, efficiency and general well-being of workers against the unfair competition of wage and hours standards which do not provide adequate standards of living.Source  Laws 1967, c. 285, § 1, p. 773. Annotations Parties may not waive the protections afforded under the Wage and Hour Act. Mays v. Midnite Dreams, 300 Neb. 485, 915 N.W.2d 71 (2018).
NE Code § 48-1202 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1202 - Terms, defined.

48-1202.  Terms, defined.For purposes of the Wage and Hour Act, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) Employ shall include to permit to work;(2) Employer shall include any individual, partnership, limited liability company, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, or organized group of persons employing four or more employees at any one time except for seasonal employment of not more than twenty weeks in any calendar year, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but shall not include the United States, the state, or any political subdivision thereof;(3) Employee shall include any individual employed by any employer but shall not include:(a) Any individual employed in agriculture;(b) Any individual employed as a baby-sitter in or about a private home;(c) Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity or as a superintendent or supervisor;(d) Any individual employed by the United States or by the state or any political subdivision thereof;(e) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization when the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist or when the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis;(f) Apprentices and learners otherwise provided by law;(g) Veterans in training under supervision of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs;(h) A child in the employment of his or her parent or a parent in the employment of his or her child; or(i) Any person who, directly or indirectly, is receiving any form of federal, state, county, or local aid or welfare and who is physically or mentally disabled and employed in a program of rehabilitation, who shall receive a wage at a level consistent with his or her health, efficiency, and general well-being;(4) Occupational classification shall mean a classification established by the Dictionary of Occupational Titles prepared by the United States Department of Labor; and(5) Wages shall mean all remuneration for personal services, including commissions and bonuses and the cash value of all remunerations in any medium other than cash.Source   Laws 1967, c. 285, § 2, p. 773;   Laws 1969, c. 408, § 1, p. 1411;   Laws 1973, LB 343, § 1;   Laws 1991, LB 2, § 8;   Laws 1991, LB 297, § 1;   Laws 1993, LB 121, § 298.
NE Code § 48-1203 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1203 - Wages; minimum rate.

48-1203.  Wages; minimum rate.(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 48-1203.01, every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees a minimum wage of:(a) Seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour through December 31, 2014;(b) Eight dollars per hour on and after January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015; and(c) Nine dollars per hour on and after January 1, 2016.(2) For persons compensated by way of gratuities such as waitresses, waiters, hotel bellhops, porters, and shoeshine persons, the employer shall pay wages at the minimum rate of two dollars and thirteen cents per hour, plus all gratuities given to them for services rendered. The sum of wages and gratuities received by each person compensated by way of gratuities shall equal or exceed the minimum wage rate provided in subsection (1) of this section. In determining whether or not the individual is compensated by way of gratuities, the burden of proof shall be upon the employer.(3) Any employer employing student-learners as part of a bona fide vocational training program shall pay such student-learners' wages at a rate of at least seventy-five percent of the minimum wage rate which would otherwise be applicable.Source   Laws 1967, c. 285, § 3, p. 775;   Laws 1969, c. 408, § 2, p. 1413;   Laws 1973, LB 343, § 2;   Laws 1987, LB 474, § 1;   Laws 1989, LB 412, § 1;   Laws 1991, LB 297, § 2;   Laws 1997, LB 569, § 1;  Laws 2007, LB265, § 22;   Initiative Law 2014, No. 425, § 1. Annotations Under subsection (2) of this section, an employer is not required to notify an employee that he or she will be compensated as a tipped employee. Instead, the employer only needs to prove the employee received tips sufficient to compensate the employee at a rate greater than or equal to the minimum wage. Mays v. Midnite Dreams, 300 Neb. 485, 915 N.W.2d 71 (2018).
NE Code § 48-1203.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1203.01 - Training wage; rate; limitations.

48-1203.01.  Training wage; rate; limitations.An employer may pay a new employee who is younger than twenty years of age and is not a seasonal or migrant worker a training wage of at least seventy-five percent of the federal minimum wage for ninety days from the date the new employee was hired. An employer may pay such new employee the training wage rate for an additional ninety-day period while the new employee is participating in on-the-job training which (1) requires technical, personal, or other skills which are necessary for his or her employment and (2) is approved by the Commissioner of Labor. No more than one-fourth of the total hours paid by the employer shall be at the training wage rate.An employer shall not pay the training wage rate if the hours of any other employee are reduced or if any other employee is laid off and the hours or position to be filled by the new employee is substantially similar to the hours or position of such other employee. An employer shall not dismiss or reduce the hours of any employee with the intention of replacing such employee or his or her hours with a new employee receiving the training wage rate.Source   Laws 1991, LB 297, § 3;   Laws 1997, LB 569, § 2;  Laws 2007, LB265, § 23.
NE Code § 48-1205 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1205 - Sections; posting.

48-1205.  Sections; posting.Every employer subject to the provisions of sections 48-1201 to 48-1209 shall keep a summary of sections 48-1201 to 48-1209, furnished by the Commissioner of Labor without charge, posted in a conspicuous place on or about the premises wherein any person subject to the provisions of sections 48-1201 to 48-1209 is employed.Source  Laws 1967, c. 285, § 5, p. 775.
NE Code § 48-1206 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1206 - Commissioner of Labor; subpoena records and witnesses; violations; penalty; civil actions.

48-1206.  Commissioner of Labor; subpoena records and witnesses; violations; penalty; civil actions.(1) The Commissioner of Labor shall have the authority to subpoena records and witnesses related to the enforcement of section 48-1203 and this section. The commissioner or his or her agent may inspect all related records and gather testimony on any matter relative to the enforcement of the Wage and Hour Act.(2) Any employer who violates any of the provisions of section 48-1203 shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor.(3) It shall be the duty of the county attorney for the county in which any violation of the Wage and Hour Act occurs to prosecute the same in the district court in the county where the offense occurred.(4) Any employer who violates any provision of section 48-1203 shall be liable to the employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages, as the case may be.(5) Action to recover unpaid minimum wages as provided in subsection (4) of this section may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself, herself, or themselves and other employees similarly situated, or such employee or employees may designate an agent or representative to maintain such action for and in behalf of all employees similarly situated. The court in which any action is brought under this subsection shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, allow costs of the action and reasonable attorney's fees to be paid by the defendant. In any proceedings brought pursuant to this subsection, the employee shall not be required to pay any filing fee or other court costs necessarily incurred in such proceedings.Source   Laws 1967, c. 285, § 6, p. 775;   Laws 1973, LB 343, § 4;   Laws 1977, LB 40, § 303;   Laws 1987, LB 474, § 2.
NE Code § 48-1207 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1207 - Bargaining collectively; sections not applicable.

48-1207.  Bargaining collectively; sections not applicable.Nothing in sections 48-1201 to 48-1209 shall be deemed to interfere with, impede or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under the provisions of sections 48-1201 to 48-1209.Source  Laws 1967, c. 285, § 7, p. 776.
NE Code § 48-1208 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1208 - Other laws; applicability of sections.

48-1208.  Other laws; applicability of sections.Any standards relating to minimum wage, maximum hours, or other working conditions in effect on October 23, 1967, by or under any other law of this state, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to such employees under the provisions of sections 48-1201 to 48-1209, shall not be deemed to be amended, rescinded, or otherwise affected by sections 48-1201 to 48-1209 but shall continue in full force and effect.Source  Laws 1967, c. 285, § 8, p. 776.
NE Code § 48-1209 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1209 - Act, how cited.

48-1209.  Act, how cited.Sections 48-1201 to 48-1209 shall be known and may be cited as the Wage and Hour Act.Source   Laws 1967, c. 285, § 9, p. 776;   Laws 1991, LB 297, § 4.
NE Code § 48-1209.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1209.01 - Police; firefighters; cities having a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants; minimum salaries.

48-1209.01.  Police; firefighters; cities having a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants; minimum salaries.The officers and members of the police and paid fire departments of cities of the metropolitan and primary classes and of cities of the first class having a population of more than ten thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census shall each receive a salary of not less than three hundred fifty dollars per month. The city council may, by ordinance, at any time, change, fix or revise the salaries of the officers or members of the police and fire departments of such cities, but in no instance shall the minimum salary of any officer or member be less than three hundred fifty dollars per month.Source   Laws 1965, c. 78, § 1, p. 313;   Laws 1979, LB 80, § 63;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-1824;  Laws 2017, LB113, § 46.
NE Code § 48-1219 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1219 - Discriminatory wage practices based on sex; policy.

48-1219.  Discriminatory wage practices based on sex; policy.(1) The practice of discriminating on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees of one sex at a lesser rate than the rate paid to employees of the opposite sex for comparable work on jobs which have comparable requirements:(a) Unjustly discriminates against the person receiving the lesser rate;(b) Leads to low worker morale, high turnover, and frequent labor unrest;(c) Discourages workers paid at the lesser wage rates from training for higher level jobs;(d) Curtails employment opportunities, decreases workers' mobility, and increases labor costs;(e) Impairs purchasing power and threatens the maintenance of an adequate standard of living by such workers and their families;(f) Prevents optimum utilization of the state's available labor resources; and(g) Threatens the well-being of citizens of this state, and adversely affects the general welfare.(2) It is therefor declared to be the policy of this state through exercise of its police power to correct and, as rapidly as possible, to eliminate discriminatory wage practices based on sex.Source  Laws 1969, c. 389, § 1, p. 1365.
NE Code § 48-1220 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1220 - Terms, defined.

48-1220.  Terms, defined.As used in sections 48-1219 to 48-1227.01, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) Employee shall mean any individual employed by an employer, including individuals employed by the state or any of its political subdivisions including public bodies;(2) Employer shall mean any person engaged in an industry who has two or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, any agent of such person, and any party whose business is financed in whole or in part under the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority Act, and includes the State of Nebraska, its governmental agencies, and political subdivisions, regardless of the number of employees, but such term shall not include the United States, a corporation wholly owned by the government of the United States, or an Indian tribe;(3) Wage rate shall mean all compensation for employment including payment in kind and amounts paid by employers for employee benefits as defined by the commission in regulations issued under sections 48-1219 to 48-1227;(4) Employ shall include to suffer or permit to work;(5) Commission shall mean the Equal Opportunity Commission; and(6) Person shall include one or more individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or voluntary associations.Source   Laws 1969, c. 389, § 2, p. 1366;   Laws 1983, LB 424, § 5;   Laws 1983, LB 626, § 75;   Laws 1993, LB 121, § 299;  Laws 2005, LB 10, § 1;  Laws 2016, LB83, § 1.  Cross References  Nebraska Investment Finance Authority Act, see section 58-201.
NE Code § 48-1221 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 48 - Labor|48-1221 - Prohibited acts.

48-1221.  Prohibited acts.(1) No employer shall discriminate between employees in the same establishment on the basis of sex, by paying wages to any employee in such establishment at a wage rate less than the rate at which the employer pays any employee of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs which require equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions. Wage differentials are not within this prohibition where such payments are made pursuant to: (a) An established seniority system; (b) a merit increase system; or (c) a system which measures earning by quantity or quality of production or any factor other than sex.(2) An employer who is paying a wage differential in violation of the provisions of sections 48-1219 to 48-1227 shall not, in order to comply with it, reduce the wage rates of any employee.(3) No person shall cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against any employee in violation of the provisions of sections 48-1219 to 48-1227.(4) No employer may discharge or discriminate against any employee by reason of any action taken by such employee to invoke or assist in any manner the enforcement of the provisions of sections 48-1219 to 48-1227.Source  Laws 1969, c. 389, § 3, p. 1366. Annotations When bringing a claim of wage discrimination based on sex under subsection (1) of this section, a plaintiff must first establish a prima facie case by showing by a preponderance of the evidence that (1) the plaintiff was paid less than a person of the opposite sex employed in the same establishment; (2) for equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility; (3) which were performed under similar working conditions. If a plaintiff establishes a prima facie case of wage discrimination based on sex, the burden then shifts to the defendant to prove one of the affirmative defenses set forth in subsection (1) of this section. Knapp v. Ruser, 297 Neb. 639, 901 N.W.2d 31 (2017).