3. In addition to or in lieu of recovering the liability specified in subd. 1. as provided in subd. 2., any employee for and in behalf of that employee and other employees similarly situated may commence an action to recover that liability in any court of competent jurisdiction.
In an action that is commenced before the end of any period specified by the department under subd. 2., if the court finds that a contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent has failed to pay the prevailing wage rate determined by the department under sub. (3) or has paid less than 1.5 times the hourly basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of the prevailing hours of labor, the court shall order the contractor, subcontractor, or agent to pay to any affected employee the amount of his or her unpaid wages or his or her unpaid overtime compensation and an additional amount equal to 100 percent of the amount of those unpaid wages or that unpaid overtime compensation as liquidated damages.
4. In an action that is commenced after the end of any period specified by the department under subd. 2., if the court finds that a contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent has failed to pay the prevailing wage rate determined by the department under sub. (3) or has paid less than 1.5 times the hourly basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of the prevailing
hours of labor, the court shall order the contractor, subcontractor, or agent to pay to any affected employee the amount of his or her unpaid wages or his or her unpaid overtime compensation and an additional amount equal to 200 percent of the amount of those unpaid wages or that unpaid overtime compensation as liquidated damages.
5. No employee may be a party plaintiff to an action under subd. 3.
or 4. unless the employee consents in writing to become a party and the consent is filed in the court in which the action is brought. Notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1), the court shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff, allow reasonable attorney fees and costs to be paid by the defendant.
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Section 2192p. 103.49 (6m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49 (6m) (b) Whoever induces any person who seeks to be or is employed on any project of public works that is subject to this section to give up, waive, or return any part of the wages to which the person is entitled under the contract governing the project, or who reduces the hourly basic rate of pay normally paid to a person for work on a project that is not subject to this section during a week in which the person works both on a project of public works that is subject to this section and on a project that is not subject to this section, by threat not to employ, by threat of dismissal from employment, or by any other means is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (1).
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Section 2192r. 103.49 (6m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49 (6m) (c) Any person employed on a project of public works that is subject to this section who knowingly permits a contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent to pay him or her less than the prevailing wage rate set forth in the contract governing the project, who gives up, waives, or returns any part of the compensation to which he or she is entitled under the contract, or who gives up, waives, or returns any part of the compensation to which he or she is normally entitled for work on a project that is not subject to this section during a week in which the person works both on a project of public works that is subject to this section and on a project that is not subject to this section, is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (2).
28,2193
Section
2193. 103.49 (6m) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49
(6m) (d) Whoever induces any person who seeks to be or is employed on any project
of public works that is subject to this section to permit any part of the wages to which the person is entitled under the contract governing the project to be deducted from the person's pay is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (3), unless the deduction would be permitted under
29 CFR 3.5 or
3.6 from a person who is working on a project that is subject to 40 USC
276c 3142.
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Section
2194. 103.49 (6m) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49
(6m) (e) Any person employed on a project
of public works that is subject to this section who knowingly permits any part of the wages to which he or she is entitled under the contract governing the project to be deducted from his or her pay is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (4), unless the deduction would be permitted under
29 CFR 3.5 or
3.6 from a person who is working on a project that is subject to 40 USC
276c 3142.
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Section 2194g. 103.49 (6m) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49 (6m) (f) Paragraph (a) (am) does not apply to any person who fails to provide any information to the department to assist the department in determining prevailing wage rates under sub. (3) (a) or (am).
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Section 2194j. 103.49 (7) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.49 (7) (d) Any person submitting a bid on a project of public works that is subject to this section shall, on the date the person submits the bid, identify any construction business in which the person, or a shareholder, officer, or partner of the person, if the person is a business, owns, or has owned at least a 25% interest on the date the person submits the bid or at any other time within 3 years preceding the date the person submits the bid, if the business has been found to have failed to pay the prevailing wage rate determined under sub. (3) or to have paid less than 1.5 times the hourly basic rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of the prevailing hours of labor.
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Section
2196. 103.50 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.50 (4m) Wage rate data. In determining prevailing wage rates for projects that are subject to this section, the department shall use data from projects that are subject to this section, s. 66.0903, 66.0904, or 103.49 or 40 USC 276a 3142.
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Section
2197. 103.50 (7) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.50
(7) (d) Whoever induces any person who seeks to be or is employed on any project that is subject to this section to permit any part of the wages to which the person is entitled under the contract governing the project to be deducted from the person's pay is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (3), unless the deduction would be permitted under
29 CFR 3.5 or
3.6 from a person who is working on a project that is subject to 40 USC
276c 3142.
28,2198
Section
2198. 103.50 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.50
(7) (e) Any person employed on a project that is subject to this section who knowingly permits any part of the wages to which he or she is entitled under the contract governing the project to be deducted from his or her pay is guilty of an offense under s. 946.15 (4), unless the deduction would be permitted under
29 CFR 3.5 or
3.6 from a person who is working on a project that is subject to 40 USC
276c 3142.
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Section
2199. 103.503 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (title) Substance abuse prevention on public works and publicly funded projects.
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Section
2200. 103.503 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (1) (a) "Accident" means an incident caused, contributed to, or otherwise involving an employee that resulted or could have resulted in death, personal injury, or property damage and that occurred while the employee was performing the work described in s. 66.0903 (4), 66.0904 (3), or 103.49 (2m) on a project.
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Section
2201. 103.503 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (1) (c) "Contracting agency" means a local governmental unit, as defined in s. 66.0903 (1) (d), or a state agency, as defined in s. 103.49 (1) (f), or an owner or developer under s. 66.0904 that has contracted for the performance of work on a project.
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Section
2202. 103.503 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (1) (e) "Employee" means a laborer, worker, mechanic, or truck driver who performs the work described in s. 66.0903 (4), 66.0904 (3), or 103.49 (2m) on a project.
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Section
2203. 103.503 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (1) (g) "Project" mean a project of public works that is subject to s. 66.0903 or 103.49 or a publicly funded private construction project that is subject to s. 66.0904.
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Section
2204. 103.503 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (2) Substance abuse prohibited. No employee may use, possess, attempt to possess, distribute, deliver, or be under the influence of a drug, or use or be under the influence of alcohol, while performing the work described in s. 66.0903 (4), 66.0904 (3), or 103.49 (2m) on a project. An employee is considered to be under the influence of alcohol for purposes of this subsection if he or she has an alcohol concentration that is equal to or greater than the amount specified in s. 885.235 (1g) (d).
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Section
2205. 103.503 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
103.503 (3) (a) 2. A requirement that employees performing the work described in s. 66.0903 (4), 66.0904 (3), or 103.49 (2m) on a project submit to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident drug and alcohol testing and to drug and alcohol testing before commencing work on a project, except that testing of an employee before commencing work on a project is not required if the employee has been participating in a random testing program during the 90 days preceding the date on which the employee commenced work on the project.
28,2206d
Section 2206d. 103.805 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
103.805 (1) The department or a permit officer shall fix and collect a reasonable fee based on the cost of issuance of collect a fee in the amount of $10 for issuing permits under ss. 103.25 and 103.71 and certificates of age under s. 103.75. The department may authorize the retention of the fees by the A person designated to issue permits and certificates of age as compensation for the person's services if the person who is not on the payroll of the division administering this chapter may retain $2.50 of that fee as compensation for the person's services and shall forward $7.50 of that fee to the department, which shall deposit that amount forwarded in the general fund and credit $5 of that amount forwarded to the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (gk). A person designated to issue permits and certificates of age who is on the payroll of the division administering this chapter shall forward that fee to the department, which shall deposit that fee in the general fund and credit $5 of that fee to the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (gk). The permit officer shall account for all fees collected as the department prescribes.
28,2207
Section
2207. 104.001 (3) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
104.001 (3) (am) The requirement that employees employed on a publicly funded private construction project for which a city, village, town, or county provides direct financial assistance, as defined in s. 66.0904 (1) (c), be paid at the prevailing wage rate, as defined in s. 66.0904 (1) (h), as required under s. 66.0904.
28,2207n
Section 2207n. 106.04 of the statutes is created to read:
106.04 Employment of apprentices on state public works projects. (1) Definitions. In this section:
(b) "Employer" means a contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a contractor or subcontractor that employs 5 or more employees in trades that are apprenticeable under this subchapter.
(d) "Project" means a project of public works that is subject to s. 103.49 or 103.50 in which work is performed by employees employed in trades that are apprenticeable under this subchapter.
(2) Apprenticeship reports. (a) By no later than 15 days after the end of a month in which an employer performs work on a project, the employer shall submit to the department in an electronic format a report of the daily number of employees employed by the employer on the project in trades that are apprenticeable under this subchapter, the daily number of apprentices employed on the project, the race, sex, and average age of those apprentices, and the daily number of hours worked by those apprentices. The department shall post on its Internet site a running summary of those reports summarizing for
each month the total number of employees employed on projects in this state in trades that are apprenticeable under this subchapter, the total number of apprentices employed on those projects, the race, sex, and average age of those apprentices, and the total number of hours worked by those apprentices.
(b) The department shall grant an employer a total grace period of not more than 10 days in each calendar year for submitting the reports under par. (a). All projects on which an employer performs work during a calendar year, whether as a contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a contractor or subcontractor, are subject to a single grace period under this paragraph. If an employer exceeds that grace period, the employer shall forfeit, for each project on which the employer performs work during the calendar year, $1,000 for each day by which the employer exceeds the grace period.
(3) Waiver. If the department grants an exception or modification to any requirement in any contract for the performance of work on a project relating to the employment and training of apprentices, the department shall post that information on its Internet site, together with a detailed explanation of why the exception or modification was granted.
(4) Debarment. (a) Except as provided under pars. (b) and (c), the department shall distribute to all state agencies a list of all persons whom the department has found to have exceeded the grace period under sub. (2) (b) at any time in the preceding 3 years. The department shall include with any name the address of the person and shall specify when the person exceeded the grace period under sub. (2) (b). A state agency may not award any contract to the person unless otherwise recommended by the department or unless 3 years have elapsed from the date on which the department issued its findings or date of final determination by a court of competent jurisdiction, whichever is later.
(b) The department may not include in a notification under par. (a) the name of any person on the basis of having let work to a person whom the department has found to have exceeded the grace period under sub. (2) (b).
(c) This subsection does not apply to any contractor, subcontractor, or agent who in good faith on no more than 2 occasions in the same calendar year commits a minor violation of sub. (2) (b), as determined on a case-by-case basis through administrative hearings with all rights to due process afforded to all parties or who has not exhausted or waived all appeals.
(d) Any person submitting a bid on a project that is subject to this section shall, on the date on which the person submits the bid, identify any construction business in which the person, or a shareholder, officer, or partner of the person, if the person is a business, owns, or has owned at least a 25 percent interest on the date on which the person submits the bid or at any other time within 3 years preceding the date on which the person submits the bid, if the business has been found to have exceeded the grace period under sub. (2) (b).
(e) The department shall promulgate rules to administer this subsection.
28,2207t
Section 2207t. 106.30 of the statutes is created to read:
106.30 Nursing workforce survey and grant. (1) Definition. In this section, "nurse" means a registered nurse licensed under s. 441.06 or permitted under s. 441.08, a licensed practical nurse licensed or permitted under s. 441.10, an advanced practice nurse prescriber certified under s. 441.16 (2), or a nurse-midwife licensed under s. 441.15.
(2) Survey form.
By October 1 of each odd-numbered year, the department of workforce development shall develop and submit to the department of regulation and licensing a survey form to gather data under s. 441.01 (7) (a) 1. to assist the department of workforce development in evaluating the supply of, demand for, and turnover among nurses in this state and in determining whether there are any regional shortages of nurses, shortages of nurses in any speciality areas, or impediments to entering the nursing profession in this state.
(3) Survey results. Beginning in 2011, by September 30 of each odd-numbered year, the department shall compile, process, and evaluate the survey results and submit a report of its findings to the speaker of the assembly and the president of the senate under s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor, the secretary of health services, and the nurse resource center described in sub. (5).
(4) Costs of survey. The department may use no more than 12 percent of the amount received under s. 20.445 (1) (km) for costs incurred by the department under subs. (2) and (3).
(5) Nursing workforce grants. (a) From the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (km), the department of workforce development shall award grants equal to the amount appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (km) minus the amount expended under sub. (4) to a nonprofit statewide nursing center that is comprised of and led by nurses and that has demonstrated coordination with constituent groups within the nursing community, including professional nursing organizations; organizations representing nurse educators, staff nurses, and nurse managers or executives; labor organizations representing nurses; the department of regulation and licensing; the department of health services; and legislators who are concerned with issues affecting the nursing profession.
(b) A statewide nursing center that receives a grant under par. (a) shall use the grant moneys to develop strategies to ensure that there is a nursing workforce that is adequate to meet the current and future health care needs of this state. The statewide nursing center may use those moneys to fund activities that are aimed at ensuring such a nursing workforce, including monitoring trends in the applicant pool for nursing education programs; evaluating the effectiveness of nursing education programs in increasing access to those programs and in enhancing career mobility for nurses, especially for populations that are underrepresented in the nursing profession; and facilitating partnerships between the nursing community and other health care providers, the department of regulation and licensing, the business community, the legislature, and educators to promote diversity within the nursing profession, enhance career mobility and leadership development for nurses, and achieve consensus regarding policies aimed at ensuring an adequate nursing workforce in this state.
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Section 2210m. 108.24 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.24 (2) Except as provided in sub. (2m) and s. 108.16 (8) (m), any person who knowingly makes a false statement or representation in connection with any report or as to any information duly required by the department under this chapter, or who knowingly refuses or fails to keep any records or to furnish any reports or information duly required by the department under this chapter, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both; and each such false statement or representation and every day of such refusal or failure constitutes a separate offense.
28,2210n
Section 2210n. 108.24 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
108.24 (2m) Any employer described in s. 108.18 (2) (c) who willfully provides false information to the department for the purpose of misclassifying or attempting to misclassify an individual who is an employee of the employer as a nonemployee shall be fined $25,000 for each violation.
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Section
2211. 109.03 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
109.03 (3) (a) In case of the death of an employee to whom wages are due, the full amount of the wages due shall upon demand be paid by the employer to the spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, children, or other dependent living with the employee at the time of death.
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Section
2212. 109.03 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
109.03 (3) (b) An employer may, not less than 5 days after the death of an employee and before the filing of a petition or application for administration of the decedent's estate, make payments of the wage due the deceased employee to the spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, children, parents, or siblings of the decedent, giving preference in the order listed.
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Section
2213. 109.03 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
109.03 (3) (c) If none of the relatives persons listed in par. (b) survives, the employer may apply the payment of the wage or so much of the wage as may be necessary to paying creditors of the decedent in the order of preference prescribed in s. 859.25 for satisfaction of debts by personal representatives.
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Section
2214. 109.09 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
109.09 (1) The department shall investigate and attempt equitably to adjust controversies between employers and employees as to alleged wage claims. The department may receive and investigate any wage claim which is filed with the department, or received by the department under s. 109.10 (4), no later than 2 years after the date the wages are due. The department may, after receiving a wage claim, investigate any wages due from the employer against whom the claim is filed to any employee during the period commencing 2 years before the date the claim is filed. The department shall enforce this chapter and ss. 66.0903, 66.0904, 103.02, 103.49, 103.82, 104.12, and 229.8275. In pursuance of this duty, the department may sue the employer on behalf of the employee to collect any wage claim or wage deficiency and ss. 109.03 (6) and 109.11 (2) and (3) shall apply to such actions. Except for actions under s. 109.10, the department may refer such an action to the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurs for prosecution and collection and the district attorney shall commence an action in the circuit court having appropriate jurisdiction. Any number of wage claims or wage deficiencies against the same employer may be joined in a single proceeding, but the court may order separate trials or hearings. In actions that are referred to a district attorney under this subsection, any taxable costs recovered by the district attorney shall be paid into the general fund of the county in which the violation occurs and used by that county to meet its financial responsibility under s. 978.13 (2) (b) for the operation of the office of the district attorney who prosecuted the action.
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Section 2216b. 110.072 of the statutes is created to read:
110.072 Contracts related to state traffic patrol vehicles. Notwithstanding s. 16.705, the department may not contract with any 3rd party for the 3rd party to provide services to the department related to the installation and maintenance of communications and other law enforcement equipment on state traffic patrol vehicles.
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Section 2216e. 110.08 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
110.08 (2) Except as provided under s. 343.16 (1) (b) and to (c), all examinations for operator's licenses and permits shall be given by state examiners.
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Section 2216g. 111.02 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.02 (3) "Collective bargaining unit" means all of the employees of one employer, employed within the state, except as provided in s. 111.05 (5) and (7) and except that where a majority of the employees engaged in a single craft, division, department or plant have voted by secret ballot as provided in s. 111.05 (2) to constitute such group a separate bargaining unit they shall be so considered, but, in appropriate cases, and to aid in the more efficient administration of ss. 111.01 to 111.19, the commission may find, where agreeable to all parties affected in any way thereby, an industry, trade or business comprising more than one employer in an association in any geographical area to be a "collective bargaining unit". A collective bargaining unit thus established by the commission shall be subject to all rights by termination or modification given by ss. 111.01 to 111.19 in reference to collective bargaining units otherwise established under ss. 111.01 to 111.19. Two or more collective bargaining units may bargain collectively through the same representative where a majority of the employees in each separate unit have voted by secret ballot as provided in s. 111.05 (2) so to do.
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Section 2216j. 111.02 (6) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
111.02 (6) (am) "Employee" includes a day care provider certified under s. 48.651 and a day care provider licensed under s. 48.65 who provides care and supervision for not more than 8 children who are not related to the day care provider.
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Section 2216L. 111.02 (7) of the statutes is renumbered 111.02 (7) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:
111.02 (7) (a) (intro.) The term "employer" "Employer" means a person who engages the services of an employee, and includes any all of the following:
1. A person acting on behalf of an employer within the scope of his or her authority, express or implied, but shall.
(b) "Employer" does not include the any of the following:
1. Except as provided in par. (a) 4., the state or any political subdivision thereof, or any.
2. Any labor organization or anyone acting in behalf of such organization other than when it is acting as an employer in fact. For purposes of this subsection, a person who engages the services of an employee includes the
(a) 2. The University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority and a .
3. A local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229.
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Section 2216n. 111.02 (7) (a) 4. of the statutes is created to read:
111.02 (7) (a) 4. With respect to an employee under sub. (6) (am), the state, counties, and other administrative entities involved in regulation and subsidization of employees under sub. (6) (am).
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Section 2216p. 111.02 (7m) of the statutes is amended to read:
