Nevada AB 390: Makes various changes to state governmental administration. (BDR 23-102)

Bill Text

A.B. 390
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ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 390–ASSEMBLYMEMBERS
GONZÁLEZ; D’SILVA AND JACKSON

MARCH 11, 2025
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

SUMMARY—Enacts provisions relating to task workers.
(BDR 53-547)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: May have Fiscal Impact.
Effect on the State: Yes.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to labor; authorizing collective bargaining
between task workers and task delivery platform
providers; setting forth procedures and requirements
governing such collective bargaining; requiring a task
delivery platform provider to provide certain information
to users and task workers; requiring a task delivery
platform provider to ensure that a task worker is paid an
amount not less than the minimum wage for each hour
worked performing tasks; setting forth certain
requirements and restrictions for contracts between a task
delivery platform provider and a task worker; renaming
and expanding the duties of the Government Employee-
Management Relations Board; providing a penalty; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
This bill enacts provisions relating to task workers. Section 11 of this bill 1
defines “task worker” to mean a natural person who has entered into a contract with 2
a task delivery platform provider to receive connections to users in need of the 3
performance of a specific task through the task delivery platform of the provider. 4
Section 9 of this bill defines “task delivery platform” to mean an Internet website, 5
online service or mobile application that: (1) connects users in need of the 6
performance of a specific task to a task worker who can perform the task; and (2) 7
uses algorithms or automated systems for certain purposes. Section 10 of this bill 8
defines “task delivery platform provider” or “provider” to mean a person who 9
operates a task delivery platform. 10
Sections 13-35 of this bill authorize collective bargaining between task 11
workers, through a task worker organization certified as an exclusive bargaining 12

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representative, and providers, and set forth procedures and requirements governing 13
such collective bargaining. Section 14 provides that task workers have the right to: 14
(1) organize, form, join or assist task worker organizations, engage in collective 15
bargaining through exclusive bargaining representatives and engage in other 16
concerted activities; and (2) refrain from engaging in such activities. 17
Existing law creates the Government Employee-Management Relations Board 18
and sets forth the powers and duties of the Board concerning collective bargaining 19
between public employees and public employers. (Chapter 288 of NRS) Sections 20
13-35, 43-47, 49 and 50 of this bill expand the powers and duties of the Board to 21
include various powers and duties relating to collective bargaining between task 22
workers and providers. Sections 41, 48 and 49 of this bill change the name of the 23
Board to the Labor Relations Board to conform to this change in powers and duties. 24
Section 15 sets forth certain prohibited practices for task delivery platform 25
providers and task worker organizations, including, among others, the refusal to 26
collectively bargain in good faith concerning the compensation, hours, procedures 27
for the adjustment of grievances and other terms and conditions of work. Section 28
16 sets forth procedures for the Board to hear and decide complaints alleging that a 29
party committed such a prohibited practice. 30
Section 17 requires each provider to submit certain quarterly reports to the 31
Board concerning the task workers with whom the provider has contracted. Section 32
17 additionally requires the Board to maintain a list of each active task worker 33
based on the information provided in such reports. 34
Section 18 requires the Board to establish by regulation industry-wide 35
bargaining units consisting of groups of task workers who have a sufficient 36
community of interest appropriate for representation by a task worker organization 37
for the purpose of collective bargaining. 38
Section 19 sets forth procedures by which a task worker organization may be 39
designated as a recognized bargaining representative of a bargaining unit by the 40
Board. Sections 20 and 21 set forth procedures by which a task worker 41
organization may be certified as the exclusive bargaining representative for a 42
bargaining unit. Section 23 provides that a task worker organization that has been 43
certified as an exclusive bargaining representative remains the exclusive bargaining 44
representative until replaced or decertified in accordance with the procedures set 45
forth in sections 23 and 29. Section 22 sets forth procedures for the conduct of 46
certain elections ordered by the Board relating to the representation of task workers. 47
Section