103.005(9)
(9) A substantial compliance with the requirements of
chs. 103 to
106 shall be sufficient to give effect to an order of the department, and no order may be declared inoperative, illegal or void for any omission of a technical nature.
103.005(10)
(10) Orders of the department under
chs. 103 to
106 shall be subject to review in the manner provided in
ch. 227.
103.005(11)
(11) Every day during which any person or corporation, or any officer, agent or employe of a person or corporation, fails to observe and comply with any order of the department or fails to perform any duty required under
chs. 103 to
106, shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of the order or of the requirement under
chs. 103 to
106, whichever is applicable.
103.005(12)(a)(a) If any employer, employe, owner, or other person violates
chs. 103 to
106, or fails or refuses to perform any duty required under
chs. 103 to
106, within the time prescribed by the department, for which no penalty has been specifically provided, or fails, neglects or refuses to obey any lawful order given or made by the department or any judgment or decree made by any court in connection with
chs. 103 to
106, for each such violation, failure or refusal, the employer, employe, owner or other person shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense. This paragraph does not apply to any person who fails to provide any information to the department to assist the department in determining prevailing wage rates or prevailing hours of labor under
s. 103.49 (3) (a) or
(am) or
103.50 (3) or
(4).
103.005(12)(b)
(b) It shall be the duty of all officers of the state, the counties and municipalities, upon request of the department, to enforce in their respective departments or jurisdictions all lawful orders of the department to the extent that the orders are applicable and consistent with the general duties of such officers.
103.005(13)(a)(a) The secretary or any examiner appointed by the secretary may hold hearings and take testimony.
103.005(13)(b)
(b) Each witness who appears before the department by its order shall receive for attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of record, which shall be audited and paid by the state in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of properly verified vouchers approved by the secretary, and charged to the proper appropriation for the department. No witness subpoenaed at the instance of an attorney under
par. (cm) or at the instance of a party other than the department is entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel unless the department certifies that the testimony was material to the matter investigated.
103.005(13)(c)
(c) The department or any party may in any investigation cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for similar depositions in civil actions in circuit courts. The expense incurred by the state in the taking of such depositions shall be charged against the proper appropriations for the department.
103.005(13)(cm)
(cm) A party's attorney of record may issue a subpoena to compel the attendance of a witness or the production of evidence. A subpoena issued by an attorney must be in substantially the same form as provided in
s. 805.07 (4) and must be served in the manner provided in
s. 805.07 (5). The attorney shall, at the time of issuance, send a copy of the subpoena to the appeal tribunal or other representative of the department responsible for conducting the proceeding.
103.005(13)(d)
(d) A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the department on any investigation and all testimony shall be taken down by the stenographer appointed by the department.
103.005(14)(a)(a) The department shall administer and enforce, so far as not otherwise provided for in the statutes, the laws relating to child labor, employment, employment offices and all other laws relating to the regulation of employment.
103.005(14)(b)
(b) The department shall investigate, ascertain and determine such reasonable classifications of persons and employments as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of
chs. 103 to
106.
103.005(14)(c)
(c) Any commissioner, the secretary or any deputy of the department may enter any place of employment or public building for the purpose of collecting facts and statistics and bringing to the attention of every employer or owner any law relating to the regulation of employment or any order of the department and any failure on the part of such employer or owner to comply with that law or order. No employer or owner may refuse to admit any commissioner, the secretary or any deputy of the department to his or her place of employment or public building.
103.005(14)(d)
(d) Every employer and every owner shall furnish to the department all information required by the department to administer and enforce
chs. 103 to
106, and shall provide specific answers to all questions that the department asks relating to any information the department requires.
103.005(14)(e)
(e) Any employer receiving from the department any form requesting information that the department requires to administer and enforce
chs. 103 to
106, along with directions to complete the form, shall properly complete the form and answer fully and correctly each question asked in the form. If the employer is unable to answer any question, the employer shall give a good and sufficient reason for his or her inability to answer the question. The employer's answers shall be verified under oath by the employer, or by the president, secretary or other managing officer of the corporation, if the employer is a corporation, and the completed form shall be returned to the department at its office within the period fixed by the department.
103.005(15)
(15) The department may establish a schedule of fees for publications and seminars provided by the department for which no fee is otherwise authorized, required or prohibited by statute. Fees established under this subsection for publications and seminars provided by the department may not exceed the actual cost incurred in providing those publications and seminars. If the department receives unanticipated proceeds from a statewide labor and management conference provided by the department that exceed the actual cost of the conference, the department may use those unanticipated proceeds to provide grants for local labor and management conferences, educational activities and other activities to promote positive relations between labor and management.
103.005(16)
(16) Each of the commissioners, the secretary or any deputy secretary may certify to official acts, and take testimony.
103.005(17)
(17) The department shall administer those programs of public assistance that are specified in
subch. III of ch. 49.
103.005(18)
(18) The department shall administer the child support and paternity establishment programs under
subch. III of ch. 49, as well as perform other functions related to child support that are specified in
ch. 49.
103.005(20)
(20) The department of industry, labor and job development shall establish a procedure for that department to provide to the state public defender and the department of administration any information that the department of industry, labor and job development may have concerning an individual's wages to assist the state public defender and the department of administration in collecting payment ordered under
s. 48.275 (2),
757.66,
973.06 (1) (e) or
977.076 (1).
103.01(1)(a)(a) "Employer" means every person having control or custody of any employment or place of employment.
103.01(1)(b)
(b) "Employer" includes the state, its political subdivisions and any office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state or local government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.
103.01(2)
(2) "Employment" means any trade, occupation or process of manufacture, or any method of carrying on such trade or occupation in which any person may be engaged, or for any place of employment.
103.01(3)
(3) "Place of employment" means any manufactory, mechanical or mercantile establishment, beauty parlor, laundry, restaurant, confectionary store, or telegraph or telecommunications office or exchange, any express or transportation establishment or any hotel.
103.02
103.02
Hours of labor. No person may be employed or be permitted to work in any place of employment or at any employment for such period of time during any day, night or week, as is dangerous or prejudicial to the person's life, health, safety or welfare. The department shall investigate, ascertain, determine and fix such reasonable classification, and promulgate rules fixing a period of time, or hours of beginning and ending work during any day, night or week, which shall be necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of any person, or to carry out the purposes of
ss. 103.01 to
103.03. The department shall, by rule, classify such periods of time into periods to be paid for at regular rates and periods to be paid for at the rate of at least one and one-half times the regular rates. Such investigations, classifications and orders shall be made as provided in
s. 103.005 and the penalties under
s. 103.005 (12) shall apply to and be imposed for any violation of
ss. 103.01 to
103.03. Such orders shall be subject to review in the manner provided in
ch. 227.
Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge or other discriminatory acts arising in connection with any proceeding under this section.
103.02 Annotation
Section 103.02, Stats. 1969, and administrative rules limiting the maximum hours women may work are superseded by provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as to employers covered by that act, but other employers remain subject to the state law. 59 Atty. Gen. 114.
103.02 Annotation
Violation of public policy expressed by this section is grounds for wrongful discharge action. Wilcox v. Niagra of Wisconsin Paper Corp. 965 F (2d) 355 (1992).
103.025
103.025
Hours of labor; compensatory time. 103.025(1)(a)
(a) "Compensatory time" means hours during which an employe is not working, which are not counted as hours worked during the workweek or other work period classified by the department by rule promulgated under
s. 103.02 for purposes of calculating overtime compensation, and for which the employe is compensated at the employe's regular rate of pay.
103.025(1)(c)
(c) "Overtime compensation" means the compensation required to be paid for hours worked during periods that the department has classified, by rule promulgated under
s. 103.02, as periods to be paid for at the rate of at least 1.5 times an employe's regular rate of pay.
103.025(2)
(2) An employer described in
s. 103.01 (1) (b) may provide an employe, in lieu of overtime compensation, compensatory time off as permitted under
29 USC 207 (o), as amended to April 15, 1986.
103.025 History
History: 1993 a. 144.
103.03
103.03
Violations; penalty. The employment of any person in any employment or place of employment at any time other than the permissible hours of labor shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section. Every day for each person employed, and every week for each person employed, during which any employer fails to observe or to comply with any order of the department, or to perform any duty enjoined by
ss. 103.01 to
103.03, shall constitute a separate offense.
103.03 History
History: 1975 c. 94; Stats. s. 103.03.
103.04
103.04
Labor and industry review commission. 103.04(2)
(2) Notwithstanding
s. 227.11, the commission may not promulgate rules except that it may promulgate its rules of procedure.
103.04(3)
(3) The commission may employ professional and other persons to assist in the execution of its duties.
103.10
103.10
Family or medical leave. 103.10(1)(a)
(a) "Child" means a natural, adopted, foster or treatment foster child, a stepchild or a legal ward to whom any of the following applies:
103.10(1)(a)2.
2. The individual is 18 years of age or older and cannot care for himself or herself because of a serious health condition.
103.10(1)(am)
(am) "Christian Science practitioner" means a Christian Science practitioner residing in this state who is listed as a practitioner in the Christian Science journal.
103.10(1)(b)
(b) "Employe" means an individual employed in this state by an employer, except the employer's parent, spouse or child.
103.10(1)(c)
(c) Except as provided in
sub. (14) (b), "employer" means a person engaging in any activity, enterprise or business in this state employing at least 50 individuals on a permanent basis. "Employer" includes the state and any office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.
103.10(1)(d)
(d) "Employment benefit" means an insurance, leave or retirement benefit which an employer makes available to an employe.
103.10(1)(f)
(f) "Parent" means a natural parent, foster parent, treatment foster parent, adoptive parent, stepparent or legal guardian of an employe or an employe's spouse.
103.10(1)(g)
(g) "Serious health condition" means a disabling physical or mental illness, injury, impairment or condition involving any of the following:
103.10(1)(g)2.
2. Outpatient care that requires continuing treatment or supervision by a health care provider.
103.10(1)(h)
(h) "Spouse" means an employe's legal husband or wife.
103.10(2)(a)(a) Nothing in this section prohibits an employer from providing employes with rights to family leave or medical leave which are more generous to the employe than the rights provided under this section.
103.10(2)(b)
(b) This section does not limit or diminish an employe's rights or benefits under
ch. 102.
103.10(2)(c)
(c) This section only applies to an employe who has been employed by the same employer for more than 52 consecutive weeks and who worked for the employer for at least 1,000 hours during the preceding 52-week period.
103.10(3)(a)1.1. In a 12-month period no employe may take more than 6 weeks of family leave under
par. (b) 1. and
2.
103.10(3)(a)2.
2. In a 12-month period no employe may take more than 2 weeks of family leave for the reasons specified under
par. (b) 3.
103.10(3)(a)3.
3. In a 12-month period no employe may take more than 8 weeks of family leave for any combination of reasons specified under
par. (b).
103.10(3)(b)
(b) An employe may take family leave for any of the following reasons:
103.10(3)(b)1.
1. The birth of the employe's natural child, if the leave begins within 16 weeks of the child's birth.
103.10(3)(b)2.
2. The placement of a child with the employe for adoption or as a precondition to adoption under
s. 48.90 (2), but not both, if the leave begins within 16 weeks of the child's placement.
103.10(3)(b)3.
3. To care for the employe's child, spouse or parent, if the child, spouse or parent has a serious health condition.
103.10(3)(c)
(c) Except as provided in
par. (d), an employe shall schedule family leave after reasonably considering the needs of his or her employer.
103.10(3)(d)
(d) An employe may take family leave as partial absence from employment. An employe who does so shall schedule all partial absence so it does not unduly disrupt the employer's operations.
103.10(4)(a)(a) Subject to
pars. (b) and
(c), an employe who has a serious health condition which makes the employe unable to perform his or her employment duties may take medical leave for the period during which he or she is unable to perform those duties.
103.10(4)(b)
(b) No employe may take more than 2 weeks of medical leave during a 12-month period.
103.10(4)(c)
(c) An employe may schedule medical leave as medically necessary.
103.10(5)
(5) Payment for and restrictions upon leave. 103.10(5)(a)(a) This section does not entitle an employe to receive wages or salary while taking family leave or medical leave.
103.10(5)(b)
(b) An employe may substitute, for portions of family leave or medical leave, paid or unpaid leave of any other type provided by the employer.
103.10(6)(a)(a) If an employe intends to take family leave for the reasons in
sub. (3) (b) 1. or
2., the employe shall, in a reasonable and practicable manner, give the employer advance notice of the expected birth or placement.
103.10(6)(b)
(b) If an employe intends to take family leave because of the planned medical treatment or supervision of a child, spouse or parent or intends to take medical leave because of the planned medical treatment or supervision of the employe, the employe shall do all of the following:
