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108.04(5g) (5g) Discharge for substantial fault.

108.04(5g)(a) (a) An employee whose work is terminated by an employing unit for substantial fault by the employee connected with the employee's work is ineligible to receive benefits until 7 weeks have elapsed since the end of the week in which the termination occurs and the employee earns wages after the week in which the termination occurs equal to at least 14 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 benefit rate shall be the rate that would have been paid had the discharge not occurred. For purposes of this paragraph, “substantial fault" includes those acts or omissions of an employee over which the employee exercised reasonable control and which violate reasonable requirements of the employee's employer but does not include any of the following:

108.04(5g)(a)1. 1. One or more minor infractions of rules unless an infraction is repeated after the employer warns the employee about the infraction.

108.04(5g)(a)2. 2. One or more inadvertent errors made by the employee.

108.04(5g)(a)3. 3. Any failure of the employee to perform work because of insufficient skill, ability, or equipment.

108.04(5g)(b) (b) The department shall charge to the fund's balancing account the cost of any benefits paid to an employee that are otherwise chargeable to the account of an employer that is subject to the contribution requirements under ss. 108.17 and 108.18 if the employee is discharged by the employer and par. (a) applies.