NEBRASKA
12)
Are there any provisions which discuss apprentices?
A.) Employee shall include any individual employed
by any employer but shall not include:
(a) Any individual employed in agriculture; (48-1201)
(b) Any individual employed as a baby-sitter in or about a private
home; (48-1201)
(c) Any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative,
or professional capacity or as a superintendent or supervisor;
(48-1201)
(d) Any individual employed by the United States or by the state
or any political subdivision thereof; (48-1201)
(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; (48-1201)
(f) Apprentices and learners otherwise provided by law; (48-1201)
(g) Veterans in training under supervision of the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs; (48-1201)
(h) A child in the employment of his or her parent or a parent
in the employment of his or her child; or (48-1201)
(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.
(48-1201)
B.) 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.
(48-1203)
C.) 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 at a
rate of four dollars and twenty-five cents per hour 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. (48-1203.01)
