DWD 100.02(27)
(27) “Forest products manufacturer" means a business engaged in the processing of logs, and includes pulp mills, saw mills or other manufacturing plants.
DWD 100.02(35)
(35) “Labor market area" means a geographical area in which there are jobs deemed to be suitable work for the claimant and which encompasses the geographical area in which workers with similar occupational skills customarily travel to obtain or perform suitable work.
DWD 100.02(36)
(36) “Lag period" means the period between the end of the base period and the valid new claim week under s.
108.02 (25m), Stats.
DWD 100.02(37)
(37) “Logging contractor" means a person who contracts for the cutting of timber, the hauling of logs or the skidding of logs, purchases timber to cut, or sells unmanufactured forest products.
DWD 100.02(39)
(39) “Multiemployer benefit plan" means a benefit plan maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements between 2 or more employers and one or more employee organizations under which each employer makes contributions to provide sickness or accident disability payments through the plan to eligible employees or their dependents.
DWD 100.02(43)
(43) “Payroll base" means the applicable amount under s.
108.02 (21) (b) or
(c), Stats., paid by an employer during a calendar year to an individual, including any wages paid for any work covered by the unemployment insurance law of any other state, which is payroll under s.
108.02 (21), Stats.
DWD 100.02(44)
(44) “Penalty" includes any tardy payment fee or late filing fee provided for in ch.
108, Stats., and a forfeiture assessed under s.
108.04 (11) (c), Stats., but does not include any fine or restitution arising under s.
108.24, Stats.
DWD 100.02(45)
(45) “Piece cutter" means a person who fells timber, removes branches from timber, saws timber into logs, or stacks logs.
DWD 100.02(47)
(47) “Public housing agency" means any state, county, municipality, or other governmental entity or public body, or agency or instrumentality thereof, which is authorized by the U.S. department of housing and urban development to engage in or assist in the development or operation of low-income housing.
DWD 100.02(49)
(49) “Reemployment services" means job search assistance and job placement services, such as: assessment, testing, counseling, provision of occupational and labor market information, job search workshops, referrals to potential employers, and other similar services.
DWD 100.02(50)
(50) “Representative of the department" means any person employed by the department of workforce development who has job duties involving the taking, processing or adjudication of benefit claims.
DWD 100.02(56)
(56) “Shipper" means a customer of the carrier who arranges or contracts for the transportation of goods.
DWD 100.02(57)
(57) “Sickness or accident disability payment" means any payment made on account of sickness or accident disability which is considered wages under s.
108.02 (26), Stats.
DWD 100.02(58)
(58) “Similar work" means work in a claimant's labor market which, when compared with a particular job, has substantially equivalent duties and responsibilities and requires substantially equivalent skills, abilities and knowledge.
DWD 100.02(59)
(59) “Skidding operator" means a person who removes logs from the woods to a roadside landing or other collection point for hauling.
DWD 100.02(60)
(60) “Successor" means the transferee when a transfer of a business has occurred under ch.
DWD 115 and ch.
108, Stats., and when either the department finds successorship status under s.
108.16 (8) (c),
(d) or
(e), Stats., or the transferee requests successorship status under s.
108.16 (8) (b), Stats.
DWD 100.02(61)
(61) “Suitable work" means work that is reasonable considering the claimant's training, experience, and duration of unemployment as well as the availability of jobs in the labor market.
DWD 100.02(67)
(67) “Unemployment insurance record" means any material that contains, records, or preserves written, drawn, printed, spoken, visual, digital, or electromagnetic information, regardless of physical form or characteristics:
DWD 100.02(67)(a)
(a) Relating to the wages earned by a worker from one or more employing units including supporting data, and which has been created or is being kept by the department in connection with the administration of ch.
108, Stats., or as required by federal law, and also includes the record on which an employer makes a quarterly report of total employment or wages or both to the department;
DWD 100.02(67)(b)
(b) Relating to records kept by the department in connection with the processing of a claim for benefits under ch.
108, Stats., or for other benefits or allowances under similar programs administered by the department pursuant to federal law; and
DWD 100.02(67)(c)
(c) Relating to records kept by the department concerning employers and employing units including but not limited to audit records, coverage records, successorship records, rating records, collection records, and related correspondence.
DWD 100.02 History
History: Renum. (2) (a), (b) and (d) from ILHR 101.001 (1), (2) and (4), cr. (1) and (2) (c),
Register, October, 1994, No. 466, eff. 11-1-94,
r. (2), (intro.), (b) and (c), cr. (25), (26) and (33), renum. (1) (a) to (j) to be (2), (5), (6), (15), (16), (19), (28), (34), (35) and (36), (1) (l) to (41), (1) (n) and (o) to (49) and (50), (1) (q) to (u) to be (61), (62), (70), (71) and (72), (2) (a) and (d) to (3) and (24), renum. (1) (intro.), (k), (m), (p) to 100.02 (intro.), (66), (46), (58) and am., renum. (11), (13) (14) and (21) from 110.001 (1), (7), (2) and (8) and am., renum. (60) and (63) from 115.001(9) and (10) and am., renum. (53) and (54) from 132.001 (7) and (8) and am., renum. (1) and (32) from 140.001 (1) and (5) and am., renum. (18), (20), (22), (29), (39), (40), (42) and (57) from 110.001 (4), (6) and (9) to (14), renum. (4), (7), (43), (64) and (65) from 115.001 (1), (2), (8), (11) and (12), renum. (23), (31) and (55) from 132.001 (5), (6) and (9), renum. (8), (12), (38) and (56) from 105.001 (1), (2), (4) and (5), renum. (27), (37), (45) and (59) from 107.001 (2) through (5), renum. (48), (68) and (69) from 111.001 (8) to (10), renum. (9) and (10) from 113.001 (2) and (3), renum. (9), (10), (44), (51) and (52) from 113.001 (2), (3), (8), (9) and (10), renum. (64) and (65) from 115.001 (1) and (2), renum. (30) and (17) from 140.19 (1) (a) and (b), renum. (47) and (67) from 149.001 (6) and (7),
Register, September, 1995, No. 477, eff. 10-1-95; renum. (44m) from (30) and am.,
Register, June, 1997, No. 498, eff. 7-1-97; corrections in (51) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats.,
Register, September, 2000, No. 537; am. (14), (32), (43), (46), (50), (51), (66) and (67) (intro.), cr. (16m), r. (34),
Register, September, 2000, No. 537, eff. 10-1-00;
CR 02-137: am. (28)
Register April 2006 No. 604, eff. 5-1-06;
CR 08-019: am. (67) (intro.)
Register July 2008 No. 631, eff. 8-1-08;
CR 18-033: r. (1), renum. (2) to DWD 140.001 (2) (c) and am., renum. (10) to DWD 113.001 (2) (bm) and am., (15m) renum. from DWD 113.001 (2) (b) and am., cr. (16f), renum. (17) to DWD 140.001 (2) (f), r. (25), (26), renum. (28) to DWD 128.001 (2) (a), renum. (31) to DWD 132.001 (2) (a), renum. (32) to DWD 140.001 (2) (g) and am., renum. (33) to DWD 101.001 (2) (b) and am., am. (43), renum. (44m) to DWD 140.001 (2) (h), r. (46), renum. (51) to DWD 113.001 (2) (e) and am., renum. (52) to DWD 113.001 (2) (f), renum. (53) to DWD 132.001 (2) (b) and am., renum. (54) to DWD 132.001 (2) (c) and am., renum. (55) to DWD 128.001 (2) (b), renum. (62) to DWD 128.001 (2) (c) and am., renum. (63) to DWD 115.001 (2) (a) and am., renum. (64) to DWD 115.001 (2) (b), renum. (65) to DWD 115.001 (2) (c), r. (66), renum. (68) to DWD 111.001 (2) (a) and am., renum. (69) to DWD 111.001 (2) (b), renum. (72) to DWD 128.001 (2) (d) and am. Register May 2019 No. 761, eff. 6-1-19.
