Valley Hospital Medical Center has severed ties with Service Employees International Union Local 1107, the union reports.

As Nevada lawmakers debate raising the state’s minimum wage, one question is continually dredged up: Does raising the wage through legislative action violate the state Constitution. It’s a question asked by the Nevada Restaurant Association, which raised similar complaints over the legality of raising the wage during the 2015 session and is now reviving those arguments as Democrats try to push for a raise in the wage floor.

With President Donald Trump nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, how could that affect residents in Southern Nevada?

One potential conflict of interest for President-elect Donald Trump could involve his dispute with employees attempting to unionize at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled against Trump, whose company has opposed unionization, but as president, Trump will have the power to appoint new members of the NLRB. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ruben Garcia, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

One potential conflict of interest for President-elect Donald Trump could involve his dispute with employees attempting to unionize at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled against Trump, whose company has opposed unionization, but as president, Trump will have the power to appoint new members of the NLRB. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ruben Garcia, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

A federal court on Tuesday blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the holiday season, dealing a major blow to the Obama administration's effort to beef up labor laws it said weren't keeping pace with the times.

Across the nation, the number of workers classified as independent contractors or freelancers has been increasing since the 1990s, according to analysis from the Brookings Institution. In areas like transportation and hotels, that growth has been recently intensified by “gig economy” companies such as Uber, Lyft and Airbnb.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he has a plan to show Americans’ “absolute disgust” with the Senate’s failure to act on the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland.