55,3078jm
Section 3078jm. 104.05 of the statutes is repealed.
55,3078ke
Section 3078ke. 104.06 of the statutes is repealed.
55,3078km
Section 3078km. 104.07 (1) and (2) of the statutes are amended to read:
104.07 (1) The department shall make promulgate rules, and, except as provided under subs. (5), (6), and (7), grant licenses a license to any employer who employs any employee who is unable to earn the living wage determined by the department, permitting the employee to work for a wage that for whom the minimum wage established under s. 104.035 is not commensurate with the employee's ability. Each license so granted shall establish a wage for the licensee any such employees of the licensee.
(2) The department shall make
promulgate rules, and, except as provided under subs. (5), (6), and (7), grant licenses a license to a sheltered workshops workshop, to permit the employment of workers with disabilities who are unable to earn the living wage at a wage that is commensurate with their ability and productivity. A license granted to a sheltered workshop under this subsection may be issued for the entire workshop or a department of the workshop.
55,3078ks
Section 3078ks. 104.08 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
104.08 (2m) Any person working in a trade industry for which a living minimum wage has been established for minors, and who has no trade, shall be employed under an apprentice contract under s. 106.01.
55,3078L
Section 3078L. 104.10 of the statutes is amended to read:
104.10 Penalty for intimidating witness. Any employer who discharges or threatens to discharge, or who in any way discriminates, or threatens to discriminate against, any employee because the employee has testified or is about to testify, or because the employer believes that the employee may testify, in any investigation or proceeding relative to the enforcement of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of may be fined $25 for each offense.
55,3078Lm
Section 3078Lm. 104.11 of the statutes is repealed.
55,3078m
Section 3078m. 104.12 of the statutes is amended to read:
104.12 Complaints. Any person may register with the department a complaint that the wages paid to an employee for whom a living minimum wage has been established under s. 104.035 are less than that
living minimum wage, and the department shall investigate the matter and take all proceedings necessary to enforce the payment of a that minimum wage that is not less than the living wage. Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge and other discriminatory acts arising in connection with any proceeding under this section.
55,3080p
Section 3080p. 106.04 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
106.04 (1) (d) "Project" means a project of public works that is subject to s. 103.49 or 103.50
16.856 or 84.062 in which work is performed by employees employed in trades that are apprenticeable under this subchapter.
55,3081d
Section 3081d. 106.13 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
106.13 (1) The department shall provide a youth apprenticeship program that includes the grant programs under subs. (3m) and (4) program under sub. (3m).
55,3082
Section
3082. 106.13 (3m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 106.13 (3m) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:
106.13 (3m) (a) (intro.) In this subsection, "
local partnership":
1. "Local partnership" means one or more school districts, or any combination of one or more school districts, other public agencies, as defined in sub. (4) (a) 2., nonprofit organizations, as defined in sub. (4) (a) 1r., individuals, or other persons, who have agreed to be responsible for implementing and coordinating a local youth apprenticeship program.
55,3083
Section
3083. 106.13 (3m) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
106.13 (3m) (b) (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (e), the department shall
may award grants to applying local partnerships for the implementation and coordination of local youth apprenticeship programs. A local partnership shall include in its grant application the identity of each public agency, nonprofit organization, individual, and other person who is a participant in the local partnership, a plan to accomplish the implementation and coordination activities specified in subds. 1. to 6., and the identity of a fiscal agent who shall be responsible for receiving, managing, and accounting for the grant moneys received under this paragraph. Subject to par. (c), a local partnership that is awarded a grant under this paragraph may use the grant moneys awarded for any of the following implementation and coordination activities:
55,3084
Section
3084. 106.13 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is repealed.
55,3085
Section
3085. 106.13 (4) (a) 1d. of the statutes is repealed.
55,3086
Section
3086. 106.13 (4) (a) 1r. of the statutes is renumbered 106.13 (3m) (a) 1r.
55,3087
Section
3087. 106.13 (4) (a) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 106.13 (3m) (a) 2.
55,3088
Section
3088. 106.13 (4) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,3089
Section
3089. 106.13 (4) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,3090
Section
3090. 106.13 (4) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,3097
Section
3097. 106.32 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 45.435 (title).
55,3098
Section
3098. 106.32 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 45.435 (1) (intro.).
55,3099
Section
3099. 106.32 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 45.435 (1) (a) and amended to read:
45.435
(1) (a) "Disabled veteran" means a veteran who is verified by the department
of veterans affairs to have a service-connected disability rating of at least 50 percent under
38 USC 1114 or
1134.
55,3100
Section
3100. 106.32 (1) (b) and (c) of the statutes are renumbered 45.435 (1) (b) and (c).
55,3101
Section
3101. 106.32 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,3102
Section
3102. 106.32 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 45.435 (2), and 45.435 (2) (a) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:
45.435 (2) (a) (intro.) Beginning on July 2, 2013, from From the appropriation account under s.
20.445 (1) 20.485 (2) (q), the department shall award a grant in any of the following amounts to any person who hires a disabled veteran to work at a business in this state:
55,3103
Section
3103. 106.32 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 45.435 (3), and 45.435 (3) (b), as renumbered, is amended to read:
45.435 (3) (b) The department shall pay a grant under this section only for hiring a disabled veteran who has received unemployment compensation insurance benefits for at least one week prior to being hired by the applicant, who was receiving such benefits at the time that he or she was hired by the applicant, and who was eligible to receive such benefits at the time the benefits were paid.
55,3104e
Section 3104e. 106.36 of the statutes is created to read:
106.36 Offender reentry initiative. (1) In this section, "offender" has the meaning given in
29 USC 3102 (38).
(2) The department shall align its workforce development activities under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act,
29 USC 3101 to
3361, with the department of corrections' initiatives to reintegrate offenders into the community by doing all of the following:
(a) Training staff of the department of corrections in the use of assessment tools to assess the educational and vocational needs and skills of offenders who are incarcerated.
(b) Providing in its guidelines for the development of local plans under
29 USC 3123 a specific requirement that local workforce development boards established under
29 USC 3122 outline in their local plans how they will work with local and statewide offender reentry initiatives supported by the department of corrections.
(c) Appointing a representative of the department of corrections to serve on any subcommittee of the state workforce development board established under
29 USC 3111 that is responsible for the planning and operation of, and other issues relating to, the state workforce development system to ensure that workforce development programs made available through that system provide workforce development activities serving offenders.
(d) Integrating offender reentry initiatives supported by the department of corrections with the job center network under s. 106.14 (1) to ensure that offenders are aware of the comprehensive career planning, job placement, job training, and other resources available to them through the job center network.
55,3105
Section
3105. 106.52 (1) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
106.52 (1) (d) 1. A bed and breakfast establishment, as defined in s. 254.61 (1) 97.01 (1g).
55,3106
Section
3106. 106.52 (1) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
106.52 (1) (d) 2. A hotel, as defined in s. 254.61 (3) 97.01 (7).
55,3107
Section
3107. 106.52 (1) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
106.52 (1) (d) 3. A tourist rooming house, as defined in s. 254.61 (6) 97.01 (15k).
55,3110
Section
3110. 108.02 (24g) of the statutes is created to read:
108.02 (24g) Suitable work. "Suitable work" has the meaning specified by the department by rule under s. 108.14 (27).
55,3111
Section
3111. 108.04 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.04 (8) (a) If Except as provided in par. (b), if an employee fails, without good cause, to accept suitable work when offered, the employee is ineligible to receive benefits until the employee earns wages after the week in which the failure occurs equal to at least 6 times the employee's weekly benefit rate under s. 108.05 (1) in employment or other work covered by the unemployment insurance law of any state or the federal government. For purposes of requalification, the employee's weekly benefit rate shall be that rate which would have been paid had the failure not occurred. This paragraph does not preclude an employee from establishing a benefit year during a period in which the employee is ineligible to receive benefits under this paragraph if the employee qualifies to establish a benefit year under s. 108.06 (2) (a). The Except as provided in par. (b), the department shall charge to the fund's balancing account any benefits otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer that is subject to the contribution requirements under ss. 108.17 and 108.18 whenever an employee of that employer fails, without good cause, to accept suitable work offered by that employer.
55,3112
Section
3112. 108.04 (8) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
108.04 (8) (b) There is a rebuttable presumption that an employee has failed, without good cause, to accept suitable work when offered if the department determines, based on a report submitted by an employing unit in accordance with s. 108.133 (4), that the employing unit required, as a condition of an offer of employment, that the employee submit to a test for the presence of controlled substances and withdrew the conditional offer after the employee either declined to submit to such a test or tested positive for one or more controlled substances without evidence of a valid prescription for each controlled substance for which the employee tested positive. In the case of the employee declining to submit to such a test, the employee shall be ineligible for benefits until the employee again qualifies for benefits in accordance with the rules promulgated under this paragraph. In the case of the employee testing positive in such a test without evidence of a valid prescription, the employee shall be ineligible for benefits until the employee again qualifies for benefits in accordance with the rules promulgated under this paragraph, except that the employee may maintain his or her eligibility for benefits in same manner as is provided in s. 108.133 (3) (d). The department shall promulgate rules identifying a period of ineligibility that must elapse or a requalification requirement that must be satisfied, or both, in order for an employee who becomes ineligible for benefits as provided in this paragraph to again qualify for benefits and specifying how a claimant may overcome the presumption in this paragraph. The department shall charge to the fund's balancing account any benefits otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer that is subject to the contribution requirements under ss. 108.17 and 108.18 whenever an employee of that employer fails, without good cause, to accept suitable work as described in this paragraph.
55,3113
Section
3113. 108.04 (11) (bh) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.04 (11) (bh) In addition to ineligibility for benefits resulting from concealment as provided in par. (be), the department shall assess a penalty against the claimant in an amount equal to 15 40 percent of the benefit payments erroneously paid to the claimant as a result of one or more acts of concealment described in pars. (a) and (b).
55,3115
Section
3115. 108.133 of the statutes is created to read:
108.133 Testing for controlled substances. (1) Definitions. In this section:
(a) Notwithstanding s. 108.02 (9), "controlled substance" has the meaning given in
21 USC 802.
(b) "Job skills assessment" means an assessment conducted by the department under sub. (2) (d).
(c) "Occupation that regularly conducts drug testing" means an occupation identified in the regulations issued by the federal secretary of labor under
42 USC 503 (l) (1) (A) (ii).
(d) "Screening" means the screening process created by the department under sub. (2) (a) 3.
(e) "Substance abuse treatment program" means the program provided under sub. (2) (c).
(f) "Valid prescription" means a prescription, as defined in s. 450.01 (19), for a controlled substance that has not expired.
(2) Drug testing program. The department shall establish a program to test claimants who apply for regular benefits under this chapter for the presence of controlled substances in accordance with this section and shall, under the program, do all of the following:
(a) Promulgate rules to establish the program. The department shall do all of the following in the rules promulgated under this paragraph:
1. Identify a process for testing claimants for the presence of controlled substances. The department shall ensure that the process adheres to any applicable federal requirements regarding drug testing.
2. Identify the parameters for a substance abuse treatment program for claimants who engage in the unlawful use of controlled substances and specify criteria that a claimant must satisfy in order to be considered in full compliance with requirements of the substance abuse treatment program. If the rules require that a claimant enrolled in the substance abuse treatment program submit to additional tests for the presence of controlled substances following the initial test conducted under sub. (3) (c), the rules shall allow the claimant to have at least one more positive test result following the initial test without, on that basis, being considered not to be in full compliance with the requirements of the substance abuse treatment program.
3. Create a screening process for determining whether there is a reasonable suspicion that a claimant has engaged in the unlawful use of controlled substances.
4. Identify the parameters for a job skills assessment for claimants who engage in the unlawful use of controlled substances and specify criteria that a claimant must satisfy in order to be considered in full compliance with the requirements of the job skills assessment.
5. Identify a period of ineligibility that must elapse or a requalification requirement that must be satisfied, or both, in order for a claimant to again qualify for benefits after becoming ineligible for benefits under sub. (3) (a) or (c).
(am) Promulgate rules identifying occupations for which drug testing is regularly conducted in this state. The department shall notify the U.S. department of labor of any rules promulgated under this paragraph.
(b) When a claimant applies for regular benefits under this chapter, do all of the following:
1. Determine whether the claimant is an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing.
2. Determine whether the claimant is an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation identified in the rules promulgated under par. (am).
3. If the claimant is determined by the department under subd. 1. to be an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing, conduct a screening on the claimant.
4. If the claimant is determined by the department under subd. 2. to be an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation identified in the rules promulgated under par. (am), conduct a screening on the claimant if a screening is not already required under subd. 3.
5. If a screening conducted as required under subd. 3. or 4. indicates a reasonable suspicion that the claimant has engaged in the unlawful use of controlled substances, require that the claimant submit to a test for the presence of controlled substances.
(c) Create and provide, or contract with an entity or another agency to provide, a substance abuse treatment program in accordance with the rules promulgated under par. (a) 2.
(d) Create and conduct job skills assessments in accordance with the rules promulgated under par. (a) 4.
(3) Drug testing; substance abuse treatment. (a) If a claimant is required under sub. (2) (b) 5. to submit to a test for the presence of controlled substances and the claimant declines to submit to such a test, the claimant is ineligible for benefits under this chapter until the claimant is again eligible for benefits as provided in the rules promulgated under sub. (2) (a) 5.
(b) If a claimant who is required under sub. (2) (b) 5. to submit to a test for the presence of controlled substances submits to the test and does not test positive for any controlled substance or the claimant presents evidence satisfactory to the department that the claimant possesses a valid prescription for each controlled substance for which the claimant tests positive, the claimant may receive benefits under this chapter if otherwise eligible and may not be required to submit to any further test for the presence of controlled substances until a subsequent benefit year.
(c) If a claimant who is required under sub. (2) (b) 5. to submit to a test for the presence of controlled substances submits to the test and tests positive for one or more controlled substances without presenting evidence satisfactory to the department that the claimant possesses a valid prescription for each controlled substance for which the claimant tested positive, the claimant is ineligible for benefits under this chapter until the claimant is again eligible for benefits as provided in the rules promulgated under sub. (2) (a) 5., except as provided in par. (d).
(d) A claimant who tests positive for one or more controlled substances without presenting evidence of a valid prescription as described in par. (c) may maintain his or her eligibility for benefits under this chapter by enrolling in the substance abuse treatment program and undergoing a job skills assessment. Such a claimant remains eligible for benefits under this chapter, if otherwise eligible, for each week the claimant is in full compliance with any requirements of the substance abuse treatment program and job skills assessment, as determined by the department in accordance with the rules promulgated under sub. (2) (a) 2. and 4.
(e) All information relating to a claimant's enrollment in the substance abuse treatment program shall, subject to and in accordance with any rules promulgated by the department, be confidential and not subject to the right of inspection or copying under s. 19.35 (1).
(f) The department shall charge to the fund's balancing account the cost of benefits paid to an individual that are otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer that is subject to the contribution requirements of ss. 108.17 and 108.18 if the individual receives benefits based on the application of par. (d).
