103.165(4)(4) Any person who violates this section shall be punished by a fine equal to the amount of the bond or by imprisonment for not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days, or both. 103.17103.17 Mutual forfeit. Any employer engaged in manufacturing that requires its employees, under penalty of forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by those employees, to provide a notice of intention to leave the employer’s employ shall be liable for the payment of a like forfeiture if the employer discharges, without similar notice, an employee, other than for incapacity or misconduct, except in case of a general suspension of labor in the employer’s shop or factory or in the department of the employer’s shop or factory in which the employee is employed. 103.17 HistoryHistory: 1993 a. 492; 1997 a. 253. 103.18103.18 Threat or promise to influence vote. No person shall, by threatening to discharge a person from his or her employment or threatening to reduce the wages of a person or by promising to give employment at higher wages to a person, attempt to influence a qualified voter to give or withhold the voter’s vote at an election. 103.18 HistoryHistory: 1993 a. 492. 103.20 HistoryHistory: 1985 a. 29; 1985 a. 73 s. 8; 2017 a. 11. 103.21(1)(1) Every minor selling or distributing newspapers or magazines on the streets or other public place, or from house to house, is in an “employment” and an “employee,” and each independent news agency or (in the absence of all such agencies) each selling agency of a publisher or (in the absence of all such agencies) each publisher, whose newspapers or magazines the minor sells or distributes, is an “employer” of the minor. Every minor engaged in any other street trade is in an “employment” and an “employee,” and each person furnishing the minor articles for sale or distribution or regularly furnishing the minor material for blacking boots is the minor’s “employer”. 103.21(1g)(1g) “House-to-house employer” means an employer who employs minors, either directly or through an agent who need not be an employee of the employer, to conduct street trades from house to house through personal contact with prospective customers. 103.21(1r)(1r) “Municipality” means a city, village or town. 103.21(2)(2) “Nonprofit organization” means an organization described in section 501 (c) of the internal revenue code. 103.21(3)(3) “Permit officer” means any person designated by the department to issue street trade permits. 103.21(6)(6) “Street trade” means the selling, offering for sale, soliciting for, collecting for, displaying or distributing any articles, goods, merchandise, commercial service, posters, circulars, newspapers or magazines, or the blacking of boots, on any street or other public place or from house to house. 103.21 AnnotationThere can be no employment under sub. (1) between a publisher and a minor distributing newspapers without the publisher having actual or implied knowledge of the minor’s activities. Beard v. Lee Enterprises, Inc., 225 Wis. 2d 1, 591 N.W.2d 156 (1999), 96-3393. 103.22103.22 General standards and powers of the department. The general standards for the employment of minors set forth in s. 103.65 apply to the employment of minors in street trades, and in relation to that employment the department has the powers and duties specified in s. 103.66. Except as the department exercises those powers, the employment of minors in street trades shall be in accordance with ss. 103.23 to 103.31. 103.22 HistoryHistory: 1971 c. 271. 103.22 Cross-referenceCross-reference: See also ch. DWD 271, Wis. adm. code. 103.23(1)(1) Except as provided in sub. (2), a minor under 12 years of age shall not be employed or permitted to work at any time in any street trade. 103.23(2)(2) A minor under 12 years of age may work in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school, a private school, or a tribal school under the following conditions: 103.23(2)(a)(a) Each minor must give the nonprofit organization, public school, private school, or tribal school written approval from the minor’s parent or guardian. 103.23(2)(b)(b) Each minor under 9 years of age or each group containing one or more minors under 9 years of age must be physically accompanied by a parent or a person at least 16 years of age.