Nevada Code § 394.179

Parental involvement: Employer required to grant leave to parent to participate in school conferences and other school-related activities; conditions; exception
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1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 5, an employer shall grant a parent, guardian or custodian of a
child who is enrolled in a private school leave from his or her place of
employment for 4 hours per school year, which must be taken in increments of at
least 1 hour, to:
(a) Attend parent-teacher conferences;
(b) Attend school-related activities during
regular school hours;
(c) Volunteer or otherwise be involved at the
school in which his or her child is enrolled during regular school hours; and
(d) Attend school-sponsored events.
The leave
must be at a time mutually agreed upon by the employer and the employee.
2. An employer may require:
(a) An employee to provide a written request for
the leave at least 5 school days before leave is taken; and
(b) An employee who takes leave pursuant to this
section to provide documentation that during the time of the leave, the
employee attended or was otherwise involved at the private school or
school-related activity for one of the purposes set forth in subsection 1.
3. An employer is not required to pay an
employee for any leave taken pursuant to this section.
4. A parent, guardian or custodian must be
granted leave in accordance with this section for each child of the parent,
guardian or custodian who is enrolled in private school.
5. The provisions of this section do not
apply if an employee is afforded pursuant to the provisions of a collective
bargaining agreement:
(a) At least 4 hours of leave or more per school
year for the purposes set forth in subsection 1 and subject to the same
provisions as subsections 2, 3 and 4; and
(b) Substantially similar protections and
remedies for violations by the employer as those that are set forth in NRS 394.1795 .
6. As used in this section, employer
means any person who has 50 or more employees for each working day in each of
20 or more calendar weeks in the current calendar year.

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