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Section 103.02, Stats. 1969, and administrative rules limiting the maximum hours women may work are superseded by provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as to employers covered by that act, but other employers remain subject to the state law. 59 Atty.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.
103.05
103.05
Hiring reporting system; state directory of new hires. 103.05(1)(1) The department shall establish and operate a hiring reporting system that includes a state directory of new hires. All requirements under the reporting system shall be consistent with federal laws and regulations that relate to the reporting of newly hired employes for support collection purposes, as part of the state location service under
s. 49.22 (2), or any other purposes specified in
42 USC 653a (h).
103.05(2)(a)(a) Except as provided in
par. (b), every employer that employs individuals in the state shall provide to the department information about each newly hired employe.
103.05(2)(b)
(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to an employer that employs individuals in this state and in at least one other state, if the employer has designated, to the secretary of the federal department of health and human services, a state other than this state for the purpose of providing the information required under
par. (a). An employer under this paragraph shall notify the department of its designation of another state to the secretary of the federal department of health and human services.
103.05(3)
(3) The department shall specify all of the following:
103.05(3)(b)
(b) A number of different ways in which employers may report the information required under
sub. (2) (a), including paper and electronic means.
103.05(3)(c)
(c) A timetable for the actions and procedures required under the reporting system, including the reporting required under
sub. (2) (a).
103.05(4)(a)(a) Except as provided in
par. (b), no person may use or disclose information obtained under this section except in the administration of the program under
s. 49.22 or a program specified in
42 USC 653a (h).
103.05(4)(b)
(b) The department may, to the extent permitted under federal law, disclose information obtained under this section to the department of revenue for the purposes of locating persons, or the assets of persons, who have failed to file tax returns, who have underreported their taxable income or who are delinquent taxpayers, identifying fraudulent tax returns or providing information for tax-related prosecutions.
103.05(5)(a)(a) Except as provided in
par. (b), and subject to
par. (c), an employer that violates any provision of this section, or any rule promulgated under this section, may be required to forfeit up to $25 for each employe concerning whom a violation has occurred.
103.05(5)(b)
(b) Subject to
par. (c), an employer may be required to forfeit up to $500 for a failure to supply the information under
sub. (2) (a) about an employe, or for supplying false or incomplete information under
sub. (2) (a) about an employe, as a result of a conspiracy between the employer and the employe to not supply the information or to supply false or incomplete information.
103.05(5)(c)
(c) The department shall provide an employer with notice of any violation for which a penalty may be imposed under
par. (a) or
(b), and with an opportunity to correct the violation, before imposing any penalty under
par. (a) or
(b).
103.05(5)(d)
(d) The department shall deposit all moneys received under this subsection in the appropriation account under
s. 20.445 (1) (gd).
103.05(6)
(6) If the department determines that the hiring reporting system established under this section will be operational on or before January 1, 1998, the department shall publish a notice in the Wisconsin Administrative Register before that date that states that the system shall begin operating on January 1, 1998.
103.05 History
History: 1997 a. 27,
237.
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.
Effective date note
NOTE: Par. (e) is shown as amended eff. 2-1-99 by
1997 Wis. Act 156. Prior to 2-1-99 it reads:
Effective date text
(e) "Health care provider" means a person described under s. 146.81 (1).
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:
103.10(6)(b)1.
1. Make a reasonable effort to schedule the medical treatment or supervision so that it does not unduly disrupt the employer's operations, subject to the approval of the health care provider of the child, spouse, parent or employe.
103.10(6)(b)2.
2. Give the employer advance notice of the medical treatment or supervision in a reasonable and practicable manner.
