Chamber Event Photo Gallery

Regular board meetings are generally held at 3 pm on the fourth Thursday of each month in the upstairs board room of Bank of Nevada. Members are welcome to attend.

Tour Around Nevada 2016: Featuring Mesquite NV!

Mesquite is the featured city in the latest edition of Nevada Magazine and on their website! 

Representatives from Nevada Magazine will visit us at our September 14th luncheon to present a special plaque and a customized Nevada Magazine cover.

Invite your friends and family to join us at the luncheon. RSVP's can be made by clicking here.

If you missed the link earlier in this post, you can view the article by clicking here.

Casapoolooza
09/03/2016

Adult Movie Matinee
09/03/2016

Bereavement Support Group
09/05/2016

Mesquite Fine Arts Invitational
09/05/2016- 10/01/2016

DOCUTAH - International Documemtary Film Festival
09/06/2016

The Art of Breathing
09/06/2016

Book Club
09/06/2016

DOCUTAH - International Documemtary Film Festival
09/07/2016

Computer/Internet Basics Class
09/07/2016

Toddler / Preschool Storytime
09/07/2016

Teen Scene
09/07/2016

DOCUTAH - International Documemtary Film Festival
09/08/2016

Science Club
09/08/2016

Building Process Seminar for Professionals and Homeowners
09/08/2016

Kayenta Arts Founatoin Prduces David Mamet's Oleanna
09/08/2016- 09/10/2016

DOCUTAH - International Documemtary Film Festival
09/09/2016

Storytime Ages 0-5
09/09/2016

DOCUTAH - International Documemtary Film Festival
09/10/2016

Walk for Hope
09/10/2016

Merrill Osmond in Concert
09/10/2016

Family Craft
09/10/2016

If your business has exempt (aka salary) employees, this is very important to you and your budget planning.

Key Provisions of the Final Rule

The Final Rule focuses primarily on updating the salary and compensation levels needed for Executive, Administrative and Professional workers to be exempt. Specifically, the Final Rule:

1. Sets the standard salary level at the 40th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region, currently the South ($913 per week; $47,476 annually for a full-year worker);
2. Sets the total annual compensation requirement for highly compensated employees (HCE) subject to a minimal duties test to the annual equivalent of the 90th percentile of full-time salaried workers nationally ($134,004); and
3. Establishes a mechanism for automatically updating the salary and compensation levels every three years to maintain the levels at the above percentiles and to ensure that they continue to provide useful and effective tests for exemption.

Additionally, the Final Rule amends the salary basis test to allow employers to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10 percent of the new standard salary level.

The effective date of the final rule is December 1, 2016. 

The initial increases to the standard salary level (from $455 to $913 per week) and HCE total annual compensation requirement (from $100,000 to $134,004 per year) will be effective on that date. Future automatic updates to those thresholds will occur every three years, beginning on January 1, 2020.

Links to helpful information:

Wage and Hour Division Final Rule on Overtime

Guidance for Non-Profit Organizations on Paying Overtime 

Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA) invites you to participate: 

Sands Education Council (SEC), a partnership comprised of Las Vegas Sands(NYSE: LVS), The Public Education Foundation, Teach For America – Las Vegas Valley and Nevada Succeeds, announced an initiative designed to give back to local teachers throughout Southern Nevada.

We are inviting you to participate in the “Teacher Appreciation Discount Program” by offering Southern Nevada teachers a discount or other offers from your business. It could be through an existing program that you already have or, if you prefer, through the creation of a special offer for teachers.

If you would like to participate, please email jen@nevadasucceeds.org with:
- A hi-res logo (preferably .png but a .jpg works.)
- Your website (this is where teachers will be redirected when they click your logo.)
- One line describing your offer (i.e. 15% off dry-cleaning.)
- Contact information (this will not be published

In order to ensure you receive the full benefits of the media roll-out, please let us know if you are interested in participating no later than Monday, September 12, 2016. You can also email with any questions or ideas, of if you need further information.

Thank you for taking the time to consider participating in this important community wide program.

Best,
The Sands Education Council

For additional information on the program, please visit http://www.thepef.org/